Joseph Arthur Gibbs: Gibbs Family Tree

Gibbs Family Tree

1867 - 1899 (31 years)

Generation: 1

Joseph Arthur Gibbs was born on 25 Nov 1867 in Westminster, London; died on 13 May 1899 in London; was buried on 18 May 1899 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire.

Other Events and Attributes:

Baptism: 28 Dec 1867, Wraxall, Somerset
Residence: 1871, Edgware, Middlesex; Age: 3; Relationship: Son

Notes:

Baptised 28 December 1867 at Wraxall, Somerset. Educated at Eton College, 1881-6; matric. at Oxford (Christ Church) 1887. Died unmarried in London from the effects of an operation 13th and was buried 18 May 1899 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there. Will proved 13 July 1899.

Was in Antony Gibbs & Sons' London and Liverpool offices 1890-92. An original director, 1894-99, of Blyth Greene Jourdain & Co., Ltd., London. Author of A Cotswold Village (1st edition. 1898, 2nd 1899, popular edition. 1909, Travellers's Library edition. 1929) and The improvement of cricket grounds (1895). The former went through more editions to cover a record span of 65 years of printing and publishing by John Murray.

J. Arthur Gibbs was born in Westminster in 1867 and educated at Eton and Christ Church College, Oxford. After two years with the family banking firm in London he moved to Ablington Manor in the Coln Valley to live as the squire of a small estate. He was a keen cricketer, playing for Somerset and the MCC and writing 'The Improvement of Cricket Grounds on Economic Princples', as well as enjoying hunting, shooting and fishing. He died in 1899.

For further info see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Gibbs_(cricketer)

Died:
Effects of an operation