Caroline Crawley

Notes:

Caroline sold the lease of 11 Bedford Square in 1849 and resided at Aldenham House 1846-50. In 1843-6 she built at Clifton Hampden, where her brother in law Joseph Gibbs was Perpetual Curate, a new parsonage to take the place of the old one which Anne Noyes gave in 1832. By a re-exchange in 1905 the former is now the Manor House and the latter has since been demolised.

She also completely restored the church of St. Michael of All Angels there, mainly with money set aside by her husband when he inherited the property, but with contributions added by herself, and her son Henry. G Gilbert Scott was her architect in both cases. The Living was augmented under her Will. See article on Clifton Hampden in the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs pp. 447-50. For her 'Royal Descent' see entry for her father, Rev. Charles Crawley.

For note of portraits of her see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs p. 435, to which add that a copy was in possession of Lord Cullen (in 1932) of Sir William Ross's miniature, done by Ross's daughter under her father's supervision. Caroline was buried at Clifton Hampden. Monumental Inscription in church and church yard there and in Aldenham church. Her Will was printed on 16 July 1950 at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Doctors Commons, London.

Died:
Belmont

Caroline married George Henry Gibbs on 7 Jul 1817 in Stowe-nine-Churches, Upper Stowe, Northamptonshire. George (son of Antony Gibbs and Dorothea Barnetta Hucks) was born on 24 Aug 1785 in Exeter, Devon; died on 21 Aug 1842 in Venice, Venezia, Veneto, Italy; was buried on 27 Dec 1842 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Title Of Nobility: Baron Aldenham
• Occupation: South American Merchant, Justice of the Peace
• Title: High Sheriff, Hertfordshire
• Baptism: 4 Oct 1819, Northamptonshire
• Residence: 1851, Hampstead, London
• Residence: 1861, St Marylebone, London
• Residence: 1871, St Marylebone, London
• Residence: 1881, London
• Residence: 1891, London

Notes:

Henry Hucks Gibbs of Aldenham and Clifton Hampden. 1st Baron Aldenham (1896). Born at 2 Powis Place, Bloomsbury, Holborn, 31 August and baptised at Stowe-Nine-Churches, 4 October 1819. Educated Rugby 1832-6, matric. at Oxford (Exeter College) 16 February 1837; 3rd Class Classics and BA. 1841. M.A. 1844. Died aged 88 at Aldenham House 13 September and was buried 18 September 1907 at Aldenham. Will was dated 16 (cod. 28) 1906, proved 20 December 1907. Monument in Clifton Hampden churchyard.

Before Rugby he was at Redland, nr. Bristol. On his father's death he succeeded to the estates in and about Clifton Hampden and on his mother's to those in and about Aldenham. He made various changes in them by sales and purchases (see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs), pp. 45-6). Lord of the Manor of Burston (Herts), sometime of that of North Moreton (Berks), and till 1902 of that of Clifton Hampden, which estate (and at that time about 1340 ac. nearly all of Oxon.) he then transferred to his son Alban, and, by purchase in 1877, patron of Aldenham. He augmented, 1901-5, the living of Clifton Hampden by restoring to it the Parsonage of 1832-46 and buying the overlarge one of 1846 for his son Alban's Manor House and he built there the beautiful brick bridge over the Thames in 1864 (designer Gilbert Scott), The Coppice house and the Village Hall. He made extensive alterations in Aldenham House and laid out the famous gardens there, his son Vicary helping largely in developing them. He restored and reseated Aldenham Church, 1882 (architect Sir A. Blomfield) and gave a new choir screen in 1903. In St. Alban's Abbey he restored the High Altar Screen 1884-9 (sculpted by H. Hems), gave the reredos with sculpture representing the Resurrection by Sir Alfred Gilbert and reconstructed the organ. He contributed to the building and endowing of Christ Church, Radlett, 1864, erected sundry buildings and cottages in Aldenham and Elstree, and diverted the public road on the west of Aldenham House.

He was entered at Lincoln's Inn Jan. 1840: Joined Antony Gibbs & Sons in the City of London 1843; a manager thereof 1847; partner 1848; head 1875-1907. Under him the Firm closed their Peru Branch in 1880 (at the time of the Peru-Chile War) and concentrated in Chile, and the next year took over Gibbs Bright and Co. with their English & Australasian Branches, and West Indian business. A director of the Bank of England 1853-1901 (Governor 1875-7). A director of the Mexican Railway Co. 1864-1905; of the Indemnity Mutual Marine Assurance Co. 1869-1906; and sometime of the Colne Valley Co., and of other companies. Member of Lloyds 1855. President of the London Institution in the City of London 1888-94. President of the Bimetallic League from 1881 and of the City of London Conservative Association 1881-1907. Served on Royal Commissions on the Stock Exchange 1877-8, on the City Parochial Charities 1880, on the Depression of trade 1885-6. He and other members of the family founded the London St. James Gazette (Conservative paper) in 1880 and owned it till 1888. Member of Parliament (Conservative) for the City of London 18 April 1891-July 92 when he retired. A commissioner of Lieutenancy for the City of London. Member of the English Church Union from 1862 (a Trustee 1876-1907), on the Council 1886-1907) and vice-pres. of the Herts (West) Branch 1897-1907. On the Council of Keble College, Oxford, 1873-1907. Member of the House of Laymen of Canterbury Convocation 1887-1907 and treasurer sometime to 1907. A Life Member from 1888 of the Corporation of the Church House, Westminster. Governor of Aldenham Grammar School 1881-1907. A Justice of the Peace for Herts. and Middlesex. High Sheriff of Herts. 1884. A Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery 1891-1907. Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society 1859 and of the Society of Antiquaries 1885 (sometime on its Council). President of Guy's Hospital 1880-96.

Created Baron Aldenham 31 Jan. 1896.

Among his books he had the best collection of copies of the 'Book of Common Prayer' in English hands. Author of catologues of his own books and MSS (printed 1876, 1888 and 1890 with supplements to the last 2 in 1898 - all since revised in a new catalogue, see his son Alban): 'Pedigree of the family of Gibbs' with historical introduction, 1st edn. 1890, 2nd edn. 1904: 'The Game of Ombre' 1st edn. 1874, 2nd 1878, 3rd for Roxburghe Club 1902; 'Account of the High Altar Screen in the Cathedral of St. Alban's' 1890: 'A Colloquy on Currency' (Contemp. Review 1889, 2nd edn. separate 1893, 3rd 1894, 4th 1899): various pamphlets on the currency and bimetallism from 1876, including 'The Double Standard' (1881) of which a French edn. 'Le Double Etalon' was published by the Belgian Bimet. Association 1883. Minutes of his evidence before the 'Indian Currency Committee', 1899, are printed in Appendix to their Report. Editor, 1868, of 'The Romance of the Chevalere Assigne' for the Early Eng. Text Soc.; and, for the Roxburghe Club, the 'Life and Martyrdom of St. Katherine of Alexandra, 1884 and the 'Hystorie of the most noble knight Plasidas' 1873. To the latter club he contributed 'The Royal History of the Knight Generides' 1865. He was a member of the Philological Society from 1859 and assisted in the production of the 'New Oxford English Dict. (pub. 1888-1928) edr. Murray and others) from 1857 to 1907, subedited the greater part of letter C and was one of the sub-editors of K (see Prefaces to Vols. I, II, V, and VI, Pt.2).

Member of the Club 'Nobody's Friends' from 1851 (president 1895-1907); of the Roxburghe Club 1863-1907) (treasurer 1878-92, vice pres. 1892-1903, pres. 1903-7); of the Carlton and Athenaeum Clubs.

He lost his right hand September 1864 from a gun accident at Mamhead, Devon, (rented for a season by his uncle William).

He resided at Frognal, Hampstead, 1849-56 (a house with 18 acres, since destroyed, in the North Angle of Finchley Road and Frognal Lane); at St. Dunstan's in Regent's Park, St. Marylebone 1856-1907 (then the Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Home). Aldenham House, which passed to him on his Mother's Death, was let till 1868 but occupied by him 1868-1907.

His Life is in the 'Dictionary of National Biography' Vol II of 2nd supplement, but there are a few mistakes in it some of which are corrected in 'Errata' printed in Vol. III of the supplment. For some other particulars see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs. See also 'Complete Peerage', 2nd edn., I, 104 (note). His diaries 1841-1907 are in possession of his great-grandson, Antony Aldenham.

Portraits: Drawing by J. Slater (1823); miniature by Sir William Ross (1852) in possession of his great grandson Antony Aldenham; oil by G. F. Watts R.A. 1876, (engraved by James Faed) in possession of Christopher Gibbs 2009 and another copy in possession of Vicary Gibbs: oil by W.W. Ouless R.A., full length; oil by T.C. Gotch; chalk (with his son Alban) by E.U. Eddis (1860). Oil by Watts (1896) in possion of VIII; replica of the Gotch in possession of his grandson Andrew Antony; but three-quarter length in possession of A. Gibbs & Sons. Copy of Ross' miniature by Ross's daughter, and crayon head by her in possession of Lord Cullen.

Standing monument and steps to his memory in Clifton Hampden churchyard by Walter Tower (1907).

Henry married Louisa Anne Adams on 6 May 1845 in Thorpe, Surrey. Louisa (daughter of Dr William Adams, LLD and Mary Anne Cokayne) was born on 10 Sep 1818 in Southampton Row, Holborn, London; died on 17 Apr 1897 in St. Dunstan's, Regent's Park, London; was buried on 21 Apr 1897 in Aldenham, Hertfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 12 Apr 1823

Notes:

Antony Gibbs (3rd son) of Merry Hill, Bushey, Herts. Born at 2 Powis Place, aforesaid 20 November 1822. Baptised privately there and received into the Church 12 April 1823 at St. George's, Hart Street, Holborn. Educated at Charterhouse, London, 1838-9, matric. at Oxford (Fellow Commoner of Worcester College) 18 October 1847, B.A. 1851. Died childless at Cheltenham 1st and was buried at Clifton Hampden, 8 December 1856. Will proved December 1856.

In Antony Gibbs and Sons, London, 1839-41 and 1844-7. In the interval, a year with Feldman Bohl and Co., merchants in Hamburg. After taking his Oxford degree, he was in 1852 a student at Wells Theological College. Merry Hill was bought by him from his mother's exors. At his death his brother Henry bought it and in 1878 sold it out of the family. His diaries 1841-2 (2 vols) and 1851-2 are in possession of J.A. Gibbs. (The ownership of these diaries and the possession of other items mentioned in these Notes, refer to the known locations in 1932, current whereabouts are uncertain).

A drawing (as a child) by Jos. Slater in in possession of Lord Aldenham.

Antony married Isabella Margaret Gordon on 7 Dec 1854 in Saint Mary, Great Malvern, Worcester. Isabella (daughter of Charles David Gordon and Marian Phillips) was born in Aug 1823 in Kent; died on 15 Mar 1895 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 May 1832, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Holborn, London
• Residence: 1851, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1871, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1881, St Thomas the Apostle, Exeter, Devon
• Residence: 1891, Clyst St George, Devon
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Speen, Berkshire; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

8th son of George Henry Gibbs of London. Baptised 26 May 1832 at St.-Giles-in-the-Fields, Holborn. Educated at Eton College 1834-35 and Charterhouse, London, 1846-7. Matric at Oxford (Exeter College), 24 Oct. 1849, BA, a 'grand compounder, MA, 1856. Buried 15 January 1914 at Speen. Will proved 17 February 1914.

To add to the facts about education, he went to a school at Brighton about six or seven, and then to one at Clifton, Bristol. After Charterhouse he was, 1848-9, with a tutor, the rector of Poundstock, Cornwall. Joined Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, 1854, but left them 1856 through ill-health, and in every year 1851 to 58 he travelled much abroad, particularly in Spain, and (1857-8) up the Nile and in Palestine. A student at Wells Theological College 1858. Ordained Deacon (Exeter) 1859, Priest 1860. Curate at St. Mary's, Torwood, Torquay, to Rev. J. Hogg 1859-1860, when his health drove him abroad again (Pyrenees) with his wife and first-born. Living at Bradeham, Bucks., 1863-4. Perpetual Curate of Clifton Hampden, Oxon., 1864 (presented by his brother Henry Hucks Gibbs), but resigned work in 1874 from the same cause as before. His parsonage there was what is now the Manor House. Resided at Oaklands, Cleveland, Somerset, 1874-8. Vicar of Exwick, Devon, 1878-85; Rector of Clyst St. George, Devon 1885-97 (presented to both by Antony Gibbs). Retired and resided at Speen House, Berks., 1898-1914. Editor of 'The Registers of Clyst St. George', published 1899 by The Parish Register Society. Member of the Athenauem Club, London, 1863-86. His diaries 1851-1912 (52 vols.), last in possession of John Arthur Gibbs in 1932 are now missing. The volume of his 'Reminiscences' (MS.) from c.1840 to 1910, now in the possession of Denis D. Gibbs.

Portraits: Oil 1858 by E.U. Eddis in possession of Lord Aldenham (1932); oil (c. 1902) by A. Macdonald, last in possession of Alexandra White (2021 - previously George Medley); a posthumous one painted 1921 (from a photo of about 1910) by Ronald Gray in possession of Denis D. Gibbs; a chalk drawing by E.U. Eddis (c. 1859) last in possession of Francis L. Gibbs in 1932; a pastel by E. Havell (1887) last in possession of Francis L. Gibbs in 1932.

Died:
Speen House

John married Isabel Marianne Bright on 3 Jan 1860 in Abbots Leigh, Somerset. Isabel (daughter of Robert Bright and Caroline Tyndall) was born on 1 Mar 1835 in Abbots Leigh, Somerset; died on 22 Mar 1920 in Newbury, Berkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 3 Jun 1833, England
• Residence: 1881, London; Marital Status: Married; Relationship to Head: Wife
• Residence: 1901, London; Age: 67; Relation: Wife

Notes:

3rd and youngest daughter of George Henry Gibbs. Baptised 3 June 1833 at St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Holborn.

Portraits: oil, 3/4, seated, by C. Kay Robertson 1905; crayon head, E. U. Eddis, 1859; last both in possession of her son Lord Cullen. Small water-colour by Alf. H. Taylor 1843; pastel by Edward Havell 1887; both in possession of her son Francis. Watercolour with her brother Robert by Mrs. Gray, 1847, in possession of Alexandra White (2021 - George Medley in 1980).

Buried 15 March 1906, at Putney Vale Cemetery.

Mary married George Edward Adams Cokayne on 2 Dec 1856 in Wraxall, Somerset. George (son of Dr William Adams, LLD and Mary Anne Cokayne) was born on 29 Apr 1825 in Bloomsbury, London; died on 6 Aug 1911 in Exeter House, Roehampton, London; was buried on 9 Aug 1911 in Cemetery, Putney Vale, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Southampton, Hampshire
• Baptism: 18 Oct 1846, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1851, Hampstead, London
• Residence: 1861, St Marylebone, London; Residence Age: 14; Relationship: Son
• Residence: 1871, London
• Residence: 1881, London
• Residence: 1901, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Residence: 1925, England
• Departure: 29 Aug 1925, Southampton, Hampshire
• Arrival: 4 Sep 1925, New York, USA

Notes:

1st son, 2nd Lord Aldenham (1907) of Aldenham and Clifton Hampden. Born at Naples 23 and baptised there privately by Embassy Chaplain 25 April and received into the Church 18 October 1846 at Clifton Hampden. Educated at Eton College 1860-1: matric at Oxford (Christ Church) 1865, B.A. 1870, M.A. 1881. Died 9 May 1936.

He succeeded to the estate of Clifton Hampden (Oxon. & Berks) and to the lordship of the manor of Clifton Hampden by gift from his father in 1902. The Vicarage there became his Manor House in 1905 & he enlarged it. He built new cottages in Clifton Hampden and added to his lands, which in 1927 consisted of the whole of Clifton Hampden & extended into Burcot, Toot Baldon, Dorchester, and Long Wittenham, in all about 1780 ac. On his father's death in 1907 the life tenancy of the Aldenham estates passed to him, comprising at that date 3,060 ac. in Herts and 106 in Middlesex. Patron of the Livings of Aldenham (from 1907) and Clifton Hampden (from 1905).

He entered Antony Gibbs & Sons 1870, partner from 1873, head from 1907. During his headship the firm opened a Branch in N. York (1913). Visited Australia 1881-2 when the firm entered into business there. Director of the Guardian Assurance Co. from 1871; the Universal Marine Insce. Co. 1875-87; the Bank of Australasia from 1887; and director of other public Cos. In the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths (livery 1897, assistant 1900, prime warden 1908-9) and also in the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers (master).

Contested Abingdon for Parliament 1880. Followed his father as M.P. (Conservative) for the City of London, 8 July 1892. In 1904 he and his brother Vicary vacated their seats (under an Act of George III) owing to the fact that as partners in A. Gibbs & Sons they had contracted with our Government to sell them Chilean Warships. He was at once re-elected by the City. Elected again by the City in 1906 for the new Parliament, he retired in favour of the Right Hon. Arthur Alfour (ex-premier). President of the London Institution 1906-13. Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute. President of the City of London Conservative Association from 1908. Commissioner of Lieutenancy for the City of London from 1892: Commissioner of income and land tax for the same from 1892. A Governor of Aldenham School of income and land tax for the same from 1892. A Governor of Aldenham school 1907-13. Sometime Treasurer of the National Society and later Treasurer of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, the Royal School for Deaf and Dumb children at Margate, the Colonial Bishoprics' Fund, and the Additional Curates Society.

As a Freemason, was Grand Warden of England in Craft Masonry, Deputy Grand Mark Master of English, and the Provincial Grand Mark Master of Kent. Member of the Roxburgh Club (vice-president 1911, president in succession to Lord Rosebery from 1929) to which he contributed the 'Life of St. Katherine' edited by his father (1884), and (in 1908) by his father's wishes 'The Mirrour of the Lyf. of Jesu Christ'. Member of the Club 'Nobody's Friends', from 1875 (president from 1913). Among other Clubs, sometime member of the Athenaeum, the Carlton, the City Carlton from 1891 (Chairman 1908-26, President from 1930, Trustee for the Club and its Debenture holders over many years), the City of London from 1869 (Chairman 1891-4; Trustee from 1907). Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

He printed, 1914, 'Catalogue of the Aldenham Library' by Helen Budd, being a revision of the catalogues printed by his father. Editor of a booklet of 'Extracts from the diary of G.H. Gibbs' being a reprint from the Gt. Western Railway Magazine of 1909-10.

Residences: 13 Park Square, Marylebone, 1875-8; 82 Portland Pace, 1878-1907; 37 Portland Place from 1907; the Manor House, Clifton Hampden from 1905; in Scotland The Dell, Rothemurchus, 1883-9; Invergeldie, Comrie, 1890-5.

Portraits: One by H. Herkomer, a miniature by Angelo Tricca of Florence, 1858, a chalk drawing (aged 13) with his father by E.U. Eddis and another by W.E. Miller, all 4 in his own possession. Portrait by Lady Cokayne, 1922, in possession of A. Gibbs and Sons.

Alban married Bridget Beresford-Hope on 18 Feb 1873 in Kilndown, Kent. Bridget (daughter of The Right Honourable Alexander James Beresford-Hope and Lady Mildred Arabella Charlotte Henrietta Gascoyne-Cecil) was born on 19 Feb 1853 in Bedgebury Park, Kent; died on 27 Feb 1896 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal; was buried in 1896 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Residence: Shenley, Hertfordshire
• Baptism: 23 Jun 1854, St John's, Hampstead
• Residence: 1861, St Marylebone, London
• Residence: 1871, Hampshire
• Residence: 1891, London
• Residence: 1901, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 56; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Arrival: 17 Dec 1921, Southampton, Hampshire

Notes:

4th son of Henry Hucks (Gibbs) Lord Aldenham, of Briggens, Herts. Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon (created 1923). born at Frognall in Hampstead, London and baptised 23 June 1854 at St. John's Hampstead. Educated at Winchester College, 1868-71. Matric. Cambridge (Trinity College) 1873; B.A. 1877, M.A. 1884. Died 22 May 1935 at Briggens and was buried 25 May 1935 at St. Dunstan's, Hunsdon.

After a course of training (1877-9) in the offices of Wallace Bros. London; Ventura Marco del Pont, Paris; Gibbs Bright & Co., Liverpool; and Henry Bath & Son, Swansea; he joined Antony Gibbs & Sons 1879; was with their Chilean Branch, Gibbs & Co., 1880-1, and a manager thereof 1881: a manager of the London firm 1881 and a partner thereof from 1882. Original Chairman of the Alianza (Nitrate) Co. Ld., 1895-1928, and of the Pan de Azucar Nitrate Co., Ld., 1901-26; Director of the Rio de Janeiro City Improvements Co. Ld. from 1884 and Chairman from 1905: Director of the Australian Mutual Provdent Soc. from 1908: and sometime Director of other public companies. Chairman of the City of London Conservative Association Sep. 1912 to 1932. On the Public Works Loan Board from July 1884 (dep. Chairman 1908-21, Chairman from 1921). Justice of the Peace for Herts, from 1916. High Sheriff of Herts. for 1913. He was a member of the Deputation sent by the British Government to Russia in the winter of 1912-13 to return the visit of the Duma to England. In the Great War he was director of Purchases of Nitrate of Soda for the Allies (see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs p.389). Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (?1918). Created Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon 24 July 1923. First speech in the House of Lords 7 July 1924, the subject being 'Trade and Unemployment'. Chairman of the City of London Club 1928-31; Member of the Carlton Club, Pall Mall, from 1910. Author of 'History of Gibbs of Fenton' in Dartington (1925), 'The Parish Registers of Hunsdon (1915)', several pamphlets on Bimetallism and the Currency, 1894-5, including 'A Bimetallic Primer' 1894 (rd ed. 1896), and one on 'The Incidence of Income Tax and Wasting Securities (1904)'. His evidence on 'Wasting Assets Abroad' before the Royal Comn. on Income Tax of 1920 is in an appendix to their Report.

He bought Biggens in the parish of Hunsdon and the lordship of the Manor of Hunsdon in 1908. His successive London residences from 1885 were 34 York Terrace, 17 Portman Street, 9 Portman Square (1898-1923), all in St. Marylebone.

Portraits: Drawing by W.E. Miller, 1882, another by E.U. Eddis in a group with his mother and brother Vicary, 1860, both in possession of Lord Aldenham. Oil, three quarter length, 1891, by W. Ouless, R.A., at Briggens (copy by Miss Richardson in possession of A.Gibbs & Sons). Crayon by John Hay, presentation from City of London Conservative Association, 1932, in possession of Antony D. Gibbs, 5th Lord Aldenham.

Herbert married Anna Maria Durant, Lady Hunsdon on 12 Feb 1885 in Shenley, Hertfordshire. Anna (daughter of Richard Durant and Charlotte Still Dashwood) was born on 8 May 1862 in High Canons; died on 30 Dec 1938 in Ware, Hertfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 May 1856, St John's, Hampstead
• Residence: 1861, St Marylebone, London
• Occupation: 1881, London; Assistant Curate St Andrews Parish
• Residence: 1881, London
• Residence: 1891, Aldenham, Hertfordshire
• Residence: 1901, Aldenham, Hertfordshire
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Aldenham, Hertfordshire; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Probate: 12 Apr 1935, London; To Raymond Kenneth Gibbs & Bernard Vicary Gibbs ( his sons)

Notes:

The Ven. Archdeacon the Hon. Kenneth Francis Gibbs (5th son of Henry Hucks (Gibbs), Lord Aldenham. D.D., Archdeacon of St. Albans. Born at Frognal aforesaid, 2 April and baptised 11 May 1856 at St. John's Hampstead. Educated at Winchester College 1870-4. Matric: Oxford (Christ Church) 15 January 1875; 4th class Theology and B.A. 1878: MA 1881; D.D. (Lambeth) 1929. Student at Leeds Clergy school, 1878-80. Died 1st February 1935 and was buried at Aldenham on 4 February 1935.

Ordained deacon 1880; priest (London) 1881. Curate of St. Andrews, Wells St., St. Marylebone, 1880-4; Vicar of Aldenham 1884-1913 (presented by his father); Rural Dean of Watford 1898-1909; Hon. Canon of St. Albans 1900-09; Chaplain to the Bishop of St. Albans 1904-09; Archdeacon of St. Albans from 1909-33; Chaplain to The King from 1921. Prolocutor of the Lower House of Canterbury Convocation 1925-32; Vice-chairman of the House of Clergy of The National Assembly 1925-29, Chairman 1929-32. Degree of Doctor of Divinity conferred by the Archbishop at Lambeth Palace No. 1929. Attached as Chaplain to Herts. Yeomanry (Territorial) 1914-21. Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, 1906-1922. Member of 'Nobody's Friends' from 1893; of Aldenham Club 1989-1921. Editor of 'The Parish Registers of Aldenham' (2 vols. 1902 and 1910). Living from 1913 until his death at The Old Rectory, Hatfield, Herts.

Portraits: Drawing by W.E.Miller and oil in a group by E.U. Eddis (1859) with his mother and sister; oil by R.G. Eves, RA and oil sketch b same artist, all in possession of his son Andrew Antony. Oil by R.G.Eves, RA (presentation portrait) in possession of his son Bernard Vicary. Another oil sketch by same artist in possession of his son Raymond Kenneth. Chalk sketch with his mother by E.U. Eddis now in possession of his daughter Dorothea Lady Goodenough, together with a pencil sketch and oil sketch by Eves.

Birth:
Frognall

Kenneth married Mabel Alice Barnett on 5 Jun 1894 in Aldenham, Hertfordshire. Mabel (daughter of Charles Edward Barnett and Augusta Rose Walsh) was born on 6 Sep 1874 in 1 Eaton Terrace, Westminster, London; died on 20 Mar 1953 in Witney, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 7 Sep 1861, St Marylebone, London
• Residence: 1871, London; Age: 9; Relationship: Son

Notes:

6th son of Henry Hucks (Gibbs), Lord Aldenham. Baptised 7 September 1861 at St. Marylebone Church. Educated privately; matric. Oxford (Christ Church) 21 May 1880. Buried 18 September 1907 at Aldenham. Will dated 24 January 1903, proved 30 October 1907.

Entered Antony Gibbs & Sons 1889, partner in that firm 1890-1907 and was with their Australian Branch, Gibbs Bright & Co., 1893-5 and 1903. Director of The London Assurance, 1883-97, of the Grand Junction Canal Co. 1883-9, of the East Argentine Railway Co. Ld. 1884-8, of the Argentine North Eastern Railway Co. Ld. 1889-1907, and of The Sulphine Corporation Ld. (from its inception) 1895-1907. A Commissioner of Lieutenancy for the City of London. Residences: 10 Lennox Gardens, Chelsea, 1888-1907; The Manor House, Elstree, 1896-1907.

Portraits: drawing (1865) by E. U. Eddis, and pastel (1883) by W.E. Miller, last in possession of Anthea H. Lowes.

Birth:
St. Dunstan's, Regent's Park,

Died:
The Manor House

Henry married The Hon. Alice Mary Crutchley on 17 Aug 1887 in Sunninghill, Berkshire. Alice (daughter of Charles Crutchley, General and Elizabeth Bayfield) was born on 21 Jun 1860 in Chelsea, London; died on 5 Oct 1942 in Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1871, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1881, St Thomas the Apostle, Exeter, Devon
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 50; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

1st son. Born at Collina (now the Vicarage), Torwood, Torquay, 27 October and baptised 7 December 1860 at St. Mark's, Torwood. Educated at Winchester College 1874-8, matric. at Oxford (Keble College), 28 January 1879; 1st class Science (biology) and BA 1882; MA 1925. Died 9 July 1949 and was buried at St. James' Abinger, Surrey. Will proved.

Joined Antony Gibbs & Sons, London 1882; in Liverpool with Antony Gibbs & Sons & Co., 1882-3; in Melbourne, Australia, with Gibbs Bright. & Co., 1885-9 (a manager there 1889); a partner in Gibbs & Co. Chile (Valparaiso and Iquique) 1890-6; a manager in the London firm 1896 and partner therein 1897 to 31 December 1930, when he retired. Director of the Mexican Railway Co. from 1905 and of the Indemnity Assurance Co. from 1906. Churchwarden of St. James', Abinger, of St. Martin Outwich, of St. Helen's, City of London, from 1920. On the council of Keble College, Oxford, from 1925. Author of 'The History of Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' and of the 'Early Years of Antony Gibbs & Sons', published 1922, and editor of the third edition of the family pedigree. Author of Abinger Parish Church published October 1938 (all his notes are available on-line at http://www.stjameschurchabinger.org/church-history.ashx and view 'Other Documents' on this page. His Chilean War Diaries are in the possession of Julian R. GIbbs

Residences: after marriage, 20 Cleveland Gardens, Paddington, 1902 - March 1931, and Goddards, Abinger, Surrey, leased from 1914, bought by his wife, 1927. Goddards was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1898-9 for Sir Frederick Mirrilees. The house was intended for Sir Frederick's daughter Cecilia (afterwards Mrs Craven) and until she needed it, it was used as a rest home for nurses.

St Cecilia's badge is carved outside the front entrance. After the house was enlarged in 1910 it was occupied for a short time by Sir Frederick's son, Donald Mirrilees and his wife. Mrs. Craven never lived there. It is a fine example of the relationship between house and garden which was of paramount importance to Lutyens (see Edwin Lutyens Architectural Monographs 6, Academy Editions, London, 1979). The garden was designed by Gertrude Jekyll and is mentioned in 'Gardens Old and New' edited by H. Avray Tipping, MA, FSA, Vol. III (pub. about 1912 by Country Life). Distinct reservations on its architectural merits are expressed by Pevsner in the vol. on Surrey in the 'Buildings of England' Series, pub. by Penguin Books, 1st edition 1962, 2nd edition. 1971, however it is the subject of one of the books in Brian Edwards' "Architecture in Detail" series (Goddards, Lutyens by Brian Edwards published by Phaidon Press Ltd 1996).

Birth:
Collina

John married Emily Gertrude Franck Bright on 14 Jan 1902 in Oxford, Oxfordshire. Emily (daughter of Rev. James Franck Bright and Emmeline Theresa Wickham) was born on 31 Aug 1868 in Preshute House, Marlborough College, Wiltshire; died on 27 Nov 1960 in Cobham, Surrey; was buried in Abinger, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Quebec, Canada
• Residence: 1871, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1901, Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire; Age in 1911: 48; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Wife
• Arrival: 10 Sep 1929, Southampton, Hampshire

Notes:

2nd daughter of Rev. John Lomax Gibbs. Baptised 29 January 1863 at Wraxall. Buried at Speen. Memorial Inscription there.

Family/Spouse: Dudley Julius Medley. Dudley (son of Maj. Gen. Julius George Medley and Adelaide Charlotte Steel) was born on 31 Mar 1861 in Paddington, London; died on 14 Oct 1953 in Newbury, Berkshire; was buried in Oxford, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1871, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Residence: 1930, Kensington, London

Notes:

2nd son of Rev. John Lomax Gibbs. Baptised 13 June 1865 in the church at Clifton Hampden. Educated at Winchester College and at a Tutor's in Cornwall 1979-83, and at the Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper's Hill, Englefield Green, 1883-6. Buried at Leamington Spa.

In the Indian Telegraph Service (in Burmah 1886-7 in India 1888-1914); a director thereof 1910-14. Retired to England 1914. Sometime Captain in Madras Volunteer Guards. In the Great War was in London attached to the Intelligence Staff of War Office 1915-19 as a Censor of Telegraphs with the rank of temp. Lieut. May 1915, temp. Capt. Ap. 1919. Assistant Treasurer and lay Canon of Southwark Cathedral 1925-30. Lived from 1925 at 7 Prince of Wales Terrace, Kensington.

Pastel portrait by Havell.

Birth:
The Parsonage

Robert married Emily Fraser Handcock on 3 Apr 1893 in Waltair, Andhra Pradesh, India. Emily (daughter of Rev. Richard George Hancock and Mary Swinhoe) was born on 31 Jul 1864 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire; died on 24 May 1947 in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire; was buried in Bristol, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Canon of St. Albans
• Baptism: 4 Aug 1867, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1881, Christchurch, Hampshire
• Residence: 19 Oct 1886, Oxford, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1901, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Residence: 1939, Aldenham Vicarage, Hertfordshire; 1939 Census of England & Wales, Clerk of Holy Orders

Notes:

3rd son of Rev. John Lomax Gibbs. Baptised at the Parsonage, Clifton Hampden, 4 August 1867. Educated at Lancing 1881-6; matric. oxford (Keble College) 19 October 1886; 3rd class Theology 1890 MA 1894. Student at Cuddesdon (Oxon), Theological College 1891-2.

Ordained Deacon at Exeter, 1892, Priest 1893. Curate of Ottery St. Mary, Devon, 1892-4; Curate of Clyst St. George under his father 1894-7. Vicar of Clifton Hampden, Oxon., 1898-1923 (presented by Henry Lord Aldenham). His (overlarge) parsonage of 1832-46 (meanwhile called The Cottage) being re-exchanged with it. Vicar of Aldenham 1923-40 (presented by Alban, Lord Aldenham). Canon of St. Albans.

Reginald married Lucia McCausland on 4 Jan 1899 in Limavady, Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Lucia (daughter of Capt. Conolly Thomas McCausland and Laura St John) was born on 18 Oct 1869 in Drenagh, Newtown Limavady, Derry, Ireland; died on 10 Jan 1940 in Peace Memorial Hospital, Watford, Hertfordshire; was buried in Aldenham, Hertfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1871, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1891, Clyst St George, Devon
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Wandsworth, London; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

4th son. Born at the Parsonage, Clifton Hampden, 28 January and baptised in the church there 28 February 1869. Educated privately in England and at Bonn, Germany; matric. at Oxford (Keble College) October 1888, BA 1892. Died childless 28 December 1943 and was buried 1 January 1944 at Putney Vale Cemetery.

He was in Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, 1892-1907. In his own business at 62 London Wall from 1907. Amongst other companies, director of Minerals Separation Ld. from 1906 (chairman from 1919); an original director and chairman of Rhodesian Congo Border Concession Ld., 1923-30, and of N'Changa Copper Mines Ld. 1926-30; director and deputy chairman of Rhokana Corporation from 1930; director of Eagle Oil Transport Co. 1913-30; director sometime of the Argentine N. Eastern Railway Co. Ld., and a Trustee for its debenture holders. Churchwarden of the parish church of Roehampton, 1911-23. Last residences: Woodmansterne, Putney Heath, and Groman, Erwood, co. Brecon.

Birth:
The Parsonage

Francis married Sylvia Beatrice Cokayne on 26 Apr 1909 in St Peter's, Eaton Sq., Westminster, London. Sylvia (daughter of George Edward Adams Cokayne and Mary Dorothea Gibbs) was born on 18 May 1863 in 92 Inverness Terrace, Paddington, London; died on 21 Aug 1949 in Wandsworth, London; was buried in Cemetery, Putney Vale, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 3 Jan 1873, Clevedon, Somerset
• Residence: 1881, St Thomas the Apostle, Exeter, Devon
• Residence: 1891, Clyst St George, Devon; Relation to Head of House: Daughter. Age mistranscribed from census
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Speen, Berkshire; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter

Notes:

4th daughter, baptised privately 3 January and received into the Church 15 April 1873 at Clevedon parish church. Died childless 11 March 1961 in Natal.

Lived with her parents till their death. In the Great War was head of a Hopsital Supply Depot in Newbury 1915-17.

Birth:
Offer's Hotel

Ethel married Reginald Herbert Bruce Dickson on 3 Jan 1922 in Roehampton, Surrey. Reginald (son of Rev. Robert Bruce Dickson and Grace Agnes Broughton) was born on 24 Apr 1882 in Cadmore End, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire; died in Mar 1966 in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1871, Putney, Surrey

Notes:

1st daughter. Baptised 28 July 1858 at St. John's, Paddington. Died at Charterhouse 17 September 1883 and was buried in the cemetery of Godalming, Surrey, leaving one daughter Blanche Mary Dorothea who died in infancy.

Portraits: Chalk as a child, with her sister Caroline, by Gilbert in possn. of Francis L. Gibbs in 1932; drawing by Miller in possession of George Medley in 1980.

Blanche married Rev. William Francis John Romanis on 10 Aug 1882 in Putney, Surrey. William was born in 1848 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire; died on 31 Aug 1913 in Plymouth, Devon; was buried in 1913 in Talland, Polperro, Cornwall. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1871, Putney, Surrey
• Residence: 1881, Godalming, Surrey
• Departure: 1900, Valparaiso, Chile
• Residence: 1901, Putney, Surrey
• Residence: 1901, London; Relation to Head: Son
• Arrival: 7 Jan 1901, Liverpool, Lancashire; From: Valparaiso, Chile
• Departure: 1911, Santa Marta, San German, Puerto Rico, USA
• Arrival: 27 Apr 1911, New York, USA
• Occupation: Between 1918 and 1920, London; Governor of the Bank of England
• Residence: 1919, London
• Residence: 1920, London; 22 Exeter House
• Arrival: 23 Feb 1924, New York, USA; Age: 59

Notes:

Born Adams. Became Baron Lord Cullen of Ashbourne. Baptised 10 August 1864 at St. John's, Paddington. Educated at Charterhouse, Surrey 1878-82.

Was in Racquets pair for Charterhouse. Entered Antony Gibbs & Sons, 1883, (London 1883-5; in Gibbs & Co., Chile, 1886-1900, and partner thereof from 1890; in London and partner of A. Gibbs & Sons from 1901). Director of the Bank of England from November 1902 (Deputy-Governor 1915-18, Governor 1918-20): director of the Pan de Azucar Nitrate Co. Ltd., 1901-24: director and chairman of the Rosario Nitrate Co. Ld. from 1924; director of the National Bank of Egypt, 1923-29. A commissioner of Lieutenancy for the City of London from 1904. Created Knight of the Order of the British Empire, August, 1917: Baron Cullen of Ashbourne (UK Peerage) 1920. Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure of Japan. Commander of the Order of Leopold (Belgium).

Residences: 6 York Terrace, Regent's Park, London, 1905-11; Exeter House, Roehampton, from 1911.

Portraits: Pastel head by Edward Havell 1886; oil, small head and shoulders by Grace Cokayne 1907; water colour, small, head and shoulders, by the same 1919: oil, head and shoulders, by the same, 1924; all four last in his own possession. Oil, full length, by Wm. Rothenstein, painted for the Bank of England 1931-32. 3 sons and 3 daughters.

His heir, Charles Borlase Marsham Cokayne, MBE (2nd Baron) inherited the title from his father in 1932; born 6 Oct. 1912, married Istly Valerie Catherine Mary Collbran by whom he has 1 daughter, Julia Collbran b. 1943; married 2ndly Patricia Mary Clulow-Gray; educated at Eton; served in the Second World War; Amateur Tennis Champion 1947, 1952. One of H.M. Lieutenants City of London from 1976; Chairman, the National Listening Library (which provides Talking Books for the Handicapped); Chairman of the Osteopathic Educational Foundation (the Fund Raising Charity for the profession). Lord in Waiting. Address: 75 Cadogan Gardens, S.W.I. He died on December 17 2000 at his home in Bodrum, Turkey.

Other children: Hon. Edmund Willoughby Marsham, born 1916, m. Janet Manson Watson; Hon. John O'Brien Marsham, born 1920, m. Anne Frances Clayton (d. 1970) and has issue; Hon. Barbara Mary, born 1905 and died 2004, m. Major Gilbert Edgar Francis van der Noot (d. 1981) and has issue; Hon. Dorothy Grace, born 1907; Hon. Ruth Margaret, born 1909, m. Istly Captain Robert William Alfred Moore (d. 1940) and has issue, m. 2ndly Rev. David Henry Aitcheson Williams (d. 1955).

Brien married Grace Margaret Marsham on 29 Sep 1904 in Barton Seagrave, Northamptonshire. Grace (daughter of Rev Hon John Marsham and Penelope Jane Hume) was born on 17 Sep 1877 in Barton Seagrave, Northamptonshire; died in 1971 in Wokingham, Berkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London

Notes:

4th son. Baptised 7 September 1871 at St. John's, Putney. Educated at Charterhouse, Surrey, 1884-90; matric. Oxford (Oriel College) Michaelmas 1890; BA 1893.

In Racquets pair for Charterhouse 1889: for Oxford University, Racquets, 1891-92, Royal Tennis, 1892.

Member of the London Stock Exchange from 1899 and partner of David Bevan & Co., stockbrokers, in the City of London. Residences, 54 Montagu Sq., London, W, 1909-29, 1 Bryanston Sq. from 1929.

Portraits: Chalk, age 23, by P. Downes 1894; pencil by Francis F. Crawley-Boevey, 1894; chalk by Geoffroi de Chaume 1924; and chalk by the same 1925; all four last in his own possession.

1 son and 3 daughters. Thomas Probyn, born 1920
(d. 1943); Elizabeth,born 1913, m. Peter Duke Doulton and has issue; Anne, born 1916, m. Walter Arbuthnot Prideaux and has issue; Susan, born 1923, who has in her possession a portrait by George Richmond of Mary Dorothea Cokayne.

Francis married Dorothy Emily Probyn on 30 Dec 1909 in Exeter House, Roehampton, Surrey. Dorothy (daughter of Sir Leslie Probyn and Emily Rosalie Davis) was born on 10 Jan 1889 in Fairfield, Acton, Middlesex; died on 10 Dec 1963 in Surrey South Eastern, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 19 Jun 1863, St John's, Paddington, London
• Residence: 1901, Putney, Surrey

Notes:

Sylvia was Francis's first cousin. 4th daughter of George Edward Adams, afterwards Cokayne. Born at 92 Inverness Terrace, Paddington, 18 May and baptised 19 June 1863 at St. John's, Paddington. Was buried at Putney Vale.

In the Great War she was a working member of the Putney Depot of Queen Mary's Needlework Guild.

Portraits: Oil, 'The Dead robin,' by E.U. Eddis (1870), last in possession of her brother Lord Cullen (engraved by Algernon Graves, circ. 1873). Water-colour by Fred. Pegram (1920); miniature by Mrs Kay Robertson; drawing by P. Downes; a chalk by E.U. Eddis (original drawing for 'The Dead Robin'; all four in possession of her husband in 1932; 'The Dead Robin' by Eddis, in possession of George Medley in 1980, now with Alexandra White (2021).

Sylvia married Francis Lomax Gibbs on 26 Apr 1909 in St Peter's, Eaton Sq., Westminster, London. Francis (son of Rev. John Lomax Gibbs and Isabel Marianne Bright) was born on 28 Jan 1869 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire; died on 28 Dec 1943 in Wandsworth, London; was buried on 1 Jan 1944 in Cemetery, Putney Vale, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 18 Feb 1879, St Marylebone, London; All Souls, Langham Place
• 1881 Census: 1881, Marylebone, London; Age: 2; Relation to Head of House: Son
• 1891 Census: 1891, Aldenham, Hertfordshire; Age: 12; Relation to Head of House: Nephew
• 1901 Census: 1901, Wargrave, Berkshire; Age: 22; Relation to Head of House: Visitor
• Departure: 1905, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Arrival: 15 Apr 1905, Southampton, Hampshire; Age: 26
• 1911 Census: 2 Apr 1911, Paddington, London; Age: 32; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

Only son. 3rd Lord Aldenham (1936). Born at 82 Portland Place., St. Marylebone, London, 9 January and baptised 18 February 1879 at All Souls, Langham Place, in that Borough. Educated Eton College 1893-4. Matric. at Oxford (Christ Church) 1897, B.A. 1901. Died childless 21 March 1939.

Entered Antony Gibbs & Sons 1903, partner from 1908; was with Gibbs Bright & Co. in Australia 1902-3, with Gibbs & Co. in Chile 1904-5. A director of The London Assurance Corporation from 1908, & of Ruislip Manor Ld. from 1910. In the Great War a member (1915-19) of Headquarters Central Detachment of Metropolitan Special Constabulary, London (Special constabulary medal). As a Freemason: Junior Grand Warden of England in Mark masonry 1911-12; Senior Grand Deacon of England in Craft Masonry 1931; Member of 'Nobody's Friends' from 1916, of the Carlton Club from 1908. On the Council of St. Peter's Home, Kilburn. A Trustee of St. Michael's Home, Cheddar. He and his wife lived from 1905 at 41 Connaught Sq., Paddington.

Portraits: One by T.C. Gotch 1888. One by C. Vigor 1886. Drawing by W. E. Miller. All 3 in possession of Lord Aldenham.

Gerald married Lillie Caroline Houldsworth on 9 May 1905 in St Andrew's, Wells St, St Marylebone, London. Lillie (daughter of William Thomas Houldsworth, Rev. and Eulalie Venables) was born on 30 Oct 1877 in London; died on 1 Sep 1950 in Oxford, Oxfordshire; was buried in Sep 1950 in St Michael's Churchyard, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 8 May 1886, Aldenham, Hertfordshire; Parish Church
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 25; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter

Notes:

1st daughter of Herbert Cokayne (Gibbs) Lord Hunsdon. Baptised 8 may 1886 at Aldenham.

Justice of the Peace, 1942-51. A director of Southover Manor School, Lewes. She and her husband lived from 1925-1939 at Cobbe Place, Beddingham, Sussex, and from 1940-1976 at Woodleys, Woodstock, Oxon.

Winifred married Sir Charles Edward Ponsonby, TD on 23 Jul 1912 in Hunsdon, Hertfordshire. Charles (son of Edwin Charles William Ponsonby, Hon and Emily Dora Coope, son of Emily Dora Ponsonby) was born on 2 Sep 1879 in Grosvenor Street, Westminster, London; died on 28 Jan 1976 in England; was buried in Wootton, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Iquique, Tarapaca, Chile
• Baptism: 8 Sep 1888, Aldenham, Hertfordshire
• Residence: 1891, London
• Residence: 1901, Eton, Buckinghamshire
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 22; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Arrival: 25 Aug 1920, New York, USA

Notes:

2nd Baron Hunsdon (1935) and 4th Baron Aldenham (1939). Born at High Canons aforesaid 11 August and baptised 8 September 1888 at Aldenham. Educated at Eton College 1901-7; matric. Cambridge (Trinity College) 1907; 2nd class History and B.A. 1910. Died at Harlow Hospital, 30 May 1969 and was cremated and ashes buried at St. Dunstan's, Hunsdon.

He was in the Eton School Football XI 1906. Won Royal Tennis, single and doubles, Cambridge v. Oxford 1910. Joined Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, 1910, and was with their Australian branch, Gibbs, Bright & Co., 1912-14. After the Great War rejoined the London firm 1919; partner thereof from 1920. Director of, amongst other Companies, Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ld., from 1921 (Chairman 1928-29), Australian Pastoral Co. Ld. from 1922 (Chairman from 1929), Westminster Bank Ld. from 1924, English Scottish and Australian Bank, Ld., from 1920. On the Livery of the Merchant Taylors Company from 1910, on the Court from 1923, Master 1932.

2nd Lieut. Hertfordshire Yeomanry (Territ) Feb. 1911-15; temp. Lieut. July, 1915, Capt., Dec., 1916. In the Great War; mobilised with the Herts. Yeomanry in August 1914 he served with them in Egypt Sep. 1914 to Aug. 1915, in Gallipoli August to October 1915 and in Palestine June 1916 to April 1917 and to XXI Corps Staff Intelligence there December 1917-January 1918. Served with the 'Dunster Force' in Mesopotamia and Persia January 1918 to January 1919 and with Herts. Yeomanry in Asia Minor January to April 1919. Mentioned twice in Despatches (1917 and 1918). Medals, 1914-15 Star, British war medal and Allies (Victory) medal.

Deputy Chairman Westminster Bank, 1st January 1933; Chairman of Bank 1st April 1950; resigned from Chairmanship 31 December 1961 but remained on Board, President, British Association of Bankers 1954-55.

Portrait in oils, painted by Simon Elwes, soon after becoming Chariman, in possession of Westminster Bank, Lothbury, EC2.

Walter married Beatrix Elinor Paul on 6 Nov 1919 in St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, London. Beatrix (daughter of Herbert Woodfield Paul and Elinor Budworth Ritchie) was born on 28 Jul 1890 in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London; died on 17 Jul 1978 in St Dunstan's, Hunsdon; was buried in St Dunstan's, Hunsdon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: London
• Baptism: 1 Sep 1901, Camfield, Hatfield, Herts
• Admission: 18 Apr 1923

Notes:

2nd son of Herbert Cokayne Gibbs, Lord Hunsdon. Baptised 1 September 1901 at St. Mark's, Hatfield. Educated at Eton College 1914-19, Matric. Oxford (Christ Church) 1919 and resided to 1922. Died 6 July 1975 and was buried at St. Michael & All Angels, Clifton Hampden, Oxon.

C.M.G. 1945; K.C.M.G. 1955, Hon. D.C.L. Oxford. Lived at Holwell Manor, Hatfield, Hertfordshire from 1932-49. Inherited Clifton Hampden Estate and lived there 1949-75; Patron of the Living, Church Warden, Chairman Parish Council.

Entered Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, 1923; was with Gibbs Bright & Co. in Australia 1924-29; Partner of the Australian firm from 1929 and of Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, 1932 (Chairman 1966-72).

Chairman of The Bank of Australia 1945-51 and The Australia & New Zealand Bank Ltd. 1951-67; Director, Barclays Bank D.C.O. (now Barclays Bank International) 1945-71 (Vice-Chairman 1948, Deputy Chairman 1955).

Other directorships include: The Sulphide Corporation from 1929; London Board of Australian Mutual Provident Society 1935 (Chairman 1958-72); The Union Discount Co. of London Ltd. (Director 1945-72); Oxford University Chest.

Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Economic Warfare 1943-45, Chairman of the Advisory Council, Export Credit Guarantee Department 1948-62. Member of the Council of The Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses 1952-73. Chairman of The Nuffield Foundation 1951-73. Chairman Morris Garages 1961-75. Chairman of the Imperial Relations Trust 1952-73.

He had several other directorships and was connected with many charities. Grocers Company: on the Livery 1929; on the Court 1932; Master 1938.

Clubs: Brooke's, Pratt's, Beefsteak; Melbourne: Union (Sidney); Queenslad.

Portrait: Oil by Allan Gwynne Jones (1968) at Nuffield Lodge, Regents Park.

Geoffrey married Helen Margaret Leslie, CBE on 6 Oct 1926 in St Marys, Hertingfordbury, UK. Helen (daughter of Charles Frederick Henry Leslie and Maud Foster) was born on 7 Jun 1905 in Alexander Square, Kensington, London; died on 28 Dec 1979 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire; was buried on 2 Jan 1980 in St. Michael & All Angels, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• Departure: Limon, Costa Rica
• Departure: Beira, Sofala, Mozambique
• Departure: Brazil
• Occupation: Governor of Southern Rhodesia from 28th December 1959 until 24th June 1969
• Baptism: 13 Jan 1903, St Thomas', Portman Sq, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 8; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Arrival: 25 Mar 1924, Plymouth, Devon
• Arrival: 29 Apr 1927, Liverpool, Lancashire
• Arrival: 27 Aug 1934, Southampton, Hampshire
• Arrival: 16 Sep 1954, London
• Arrival: 24 Jul 1959, Southampton, Hampshire

Notes:

3rd son of Herbert Cokayne Gibbs, Lord Hunsdon. Baptised 13 January 1903 at St. Thomas's, Portman Square. Educated at Eton College, 1915-21, matric. Cambridge (Trinity College) 1921.

P.C. (1969), G.C.V.O. (1969); K.C.V.O. (1965); K.C.M.G. (1960); O.B.E. (1959); Governor of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) 1957-1969; Hon. L.L.D., Birmingham 1969; Hon. D.C.L. East Anglia, 1969.

Farming in Rhodesia, near Bulawayo, since 1928. Founder Member and later Chairman of the Natural Resources Board; Founder Member of the Rhodesia National Farmers Union which encouraged Rhodesian farmers to produce more food for Britain in the Second World War. Member of Parliament (United Party) 1947-53; Chairman of the United Party for many years. One of the two originators of the Central African Trade Fair (later the Rhodesian Trade Fair).

Governor of Southern Rhodesia 1959; last Governor General (Acting) of the Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland. In 1965 after the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, Ian Smith, announced the 'Unilateral Declaration of Independence,' he remained at Government House for 4 years. In 1969 he was allowed to leave after a Referendum in Rhodesia which resulted in the declaration of a Republic.

Member of the Board of Barclays Bank for many years (except during his Governorship) until his retirement in 1978. Member of Wankie Colliery Board; Commercial Union Board, Premier Portland Cement Board and Gibbs & Co.

Active in the establishment and continuation of Private Schools, both Junior and Senior, Chairman of Ruzawi Board of Governors.

Knight Commander of the Order of St. John since 1963; Member of the Council for the Blind.

Clubs: Athenaeum' Bulawayo (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe); Salisbury (Salisbury, Zimbabwe).


More information about Humphrey Gibbs at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Gibbs

Humphrey married Dame Molly Peel Nelson, DBE on 17 Jan 1934 in Bulawayo, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe. Molly (daughter of John Peel Nelson and Ruth Annie Parlett) was born on 13 Jul 1912 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa; died on 20 Jan 1997 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Wellington, New Zealand
• Baptism: 7 Nov 1897, Aldenham, Hertfordshire
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Aldenham, Hertfordshire; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
• Arrival: 25 Mar 1958, London

Notes:

1st daughter of Archdeacon Kenneth F. Gibbs. Baptised at Aldenham 7 November 1897.

In the Great War served in the Voluntary Aid Detachment of the British Red Cross Society. Justice of the Peace 1942-45. WVS Centre Organiser 1939-45. Commissioner of Girl Guides for Oxfordshire 1942-48. Was actively involved in village and local affairs, principally the church and the Over Sixties Club. Hobbies: gardening and needlework.

Portrait: by de Gleyn at Filkins.

Birth:
Vicarage

Dorothea married Sir William Macnamara Goodenough, Baronet, DL, JP on 15 May 1924 in Aldenham, Hertfordshire. William (son of Baronet Frederick Crawford Goodenough and Maive Macnamara) was born on 10 Mar 1899 in Fulham, London; died on 23 May 1951 in Witney, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 27 Oct 1901, Aldenham, Hertfordshire

Notes:

3rd son. Baptised 27 October 1901 at Aldenham. Educated at Winchester College 1914-20. Matric: Oxford (Christ Church) 1920.

2nd Lieut. Herts. Regiment (Territorial) May 1923; Lieut. May 1925. Left Regiment and joined Reserve of Officers (TA), Reg. list Class 1, August 1926. In Barclays Bank, Ltd. from 1924; London 1924; Cambridge 1925; Birmingham from July 1927. Local junior Director Birmingham 1931-1934. Local Director Leicester 1935; Local Director Nottingham 1950 in addition to Leicester, and subsequently Sheffield, the whole ultimately being amalgamated under Nottingham, where he was Senior Local Director until retirement in 1961.

In Second World War he was called up from the Reserve of Officers (TA) as Captain. Staff Capt. to 162 inf. Bde; Passed Staff College War Court 1939. Temp. Major 1941, DAAG. War Office. Lt. Col. 1944, GSO. 1 SHAEF.

A member of 'Nobody's Friends' from 1954. Lived at The Old Rectory, Teigh, Oakland, Rutland and from 1973 at The Manor House, Yatton Keynell, Nr. Chippenham, Wilts. From 1981 until his death at 15 Silver Street, Tetbury, Glos.

Portrait: Pastel by Mrs Blakeney Ward in possession of his brother Andrew Antony.

Raymond married Kathleen Carnegie on 7 Jun 1941 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London. Kathleen (daughter of Rev. William Hartley Carnegie, Canon of Westminster and Albinia Frances Crawley-Boevey) was born on 1 May 1899 in Great Witley, Worcestershire; died on 9 Feb 1982 in Motor Accident. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 9 May 1911, Aldenham, Hertfordshire

Notes:

5th son. Born on 31 March 1914, baptised 9 May 1914 at Aldenham. Educated at Winchester College 1927-33, Oxford (Christ Church) BA 1937, MA 1946.

MBE (1945), TD (1945), Major Herts. Regt. RARO served in World War II (despatches); 1939/45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal.

Local Director, Barclays Bank Ltd., Oxford District 1947-53; Shrewsbury District from 1953; York District from 1961; Director of The Bank 1962; Director of Barclays Bank UK Management Ltd. 1971-79; Director Barclays Insurance Services Co. Ltd. 1970-75; Director York Waterworks Co. from 1969. Member York Diocesan Board of Finance from 1964. Member 1968 and Chairman since 1969 of Dean and Chapter of York Minister Finance Committee. Member of the HIgh Stewards Committee of York Minster and a Trustee of the York Minster Fund, from its inception in 1967. Fell Corpn. of SS Mary and Nicolas (Woodard Schools Midlands Division) from 1959; Chairman of the School Council of Worksop College and Ranby House School since 1962. A member of the Executive Committee of the Woodard Corporation since its formation in 1976. Governor of St. Edward's School, Oxford from 1948; Hon. Life member BRCS. A member of 'Nobody's Friends' since 1963.

Clubs: Travellers", Pratt's, MCC, and Yorkshire (York).

Portrait: oil by A.C. Davidson-Houston, last in his own possession and pastel by Mrs Blakeney Ward, likewise.

Last address: Kilvington Hall, Thirsk, Yorkshire


Birth:
The Old Rectory

Andrew married Elizabeth Joan Flint on 9 May 1947 in Bayford, Hertfordshire. Elizabeth (daughter of Major Eric Charles Montague Flint and Frances Sarah Nancy Hulbert) was born on 4 Oct 1921 in Eltham, Kent; died on 21 Oct 1993 in Thornton-le-Street, Yorkshire; was buried in Thornton-le-Street, Hambleton District, North Yorkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 25 Jul 1888, England
• Residence: 1891, Sunninghill, Berkshire
• Residence: 1901, Sunninghill, Berkshire
• Arrival: 8 Jul 1919, New York, USA
• Residence: 1925, Perth Australia Temple, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
• Military Service: Between 1939 and 1948, Victoria, Australia; Age: 51

Notes:

1st son. Baptised 25 July 1888 at St. Saviour's Chelsea. Educated at Eton College 1901-6; matric. Oxford (Christ Church) October 1906; BA 1910.

He was with Antony Gibbs & Sons in London 1910-14; with their Australian branch, Gibbs Bright & Co., 1914-29 (Melbourne 1914-22, Perth 1922-9), a manager of Gibbs Bright & Co., 1915 and a partner in it 1927-9. Retired 1929 and lived at 25 Cadogan Square (1932). Member of the Carlton Club from 1920.

Returned to Melbourne. Died 8 August 1974 at La Haut, Dominica and buried in Roseau, Dominica, West Indies.

Maurice married Elma Gordon Cumming on 10 Jan 1912 in Altyre Church, Nr. Forres, Moray, Scotland, and was divorced in 1923. Elma (daughter of Lt. Col. Sir William Gordon Gordon Cumming, 4th Bart and Florence Josephine Garner) was born on 23 Mar 1892 in Forres, Moray, Scotland; died on 12 Nov 1973 in Antrim Valley, St.Paul, Dominica. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maurice married Margaret Falkiner McBean on 3 May 1933 in St Martin, London. Margaret (daughter of Daniel Grant McBean and Louisa Fraser Falkiner) was born on 25 Oct 1898 in Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia; died on 4 Aug 1964 in Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1901, Chelsea, London

Notes:

1st daughter. Baptised 26 March 1896 at St. Savoir's, Chelsea. Died 27 April 1978.

MBE for work for the WVS during the Second World War, as county Organiser for Somerset. She also took a very active part in helping her husband in his constituency. Lived at Christon Old Rectory, nr. Weston-super-Mare, and susbsequently at Adcombe Edge, Corfe, Taunton, until her death.

Birth:
10 Lennox Gardens,

Helen married Sir Ian Leslie Orr Ewing, MP on 24 Jan 1917 in Westminster, London. Ian (son of Charles Lindsay Orr Ewing and Beatrix Mary Leslie Hore Ruthven) was born on 4 Jun 1893 in Newark Castle, Ayreshire; died on 27 Apr 1958 in Bristol, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: New York, USA
• Baptism: 11 Jan 1903, Paddington, Lancashire
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 8; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Arrival: 31 May 1960, Southampton, Hampshire; Age: 57

Notes:

1st son. Lt. Co. Territorial Army. Baptised 11 January 1903 at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, Paddington. Educated at Winchester College, 1916-1921; matric. at Oxford (University College) 15 October 1921; 3rd Class History and BA 1924; MA 1928.

Fellow of the Royal Institution of the Chartered Surveyors. Fellow of the Land Agents Society. On the Council of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors 1948. Articled to J.R. Eve & Son of Bedford and Westminster 1925-8. With Lofts & Warner, surveyors and land agents 1929-1935, Chief Land Agent to the National Trust 1961. Retired 1968. Last address: The Porch House, Lacock, Chippenham, Wilts.

From 1924 City of London Yeomanry Battery (RHA) (TA) 'Roughriders'. In Second World War with Anti-Aircraft Command RA in England. Retired with the rank of Lt. Col. after the War.

Birth:
20 Cleveland Gardens

Christopher married Margaret Evelyn Mackay on 8 Sep 1942 in Petham, Kent. Margaret (daughter of Capt. Robert Henry Ramsey Mackay and Beatrice Caroline Arbuthnott) was born on 5 Mar 1914 in Westbourne, Hampshire; died on 11 Aug 2005 in Swindon, Wiltshire; was buried in Lacock, Wiltshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 6; Relation to Head of House: Son

Notes:

2nd son. Baptised 28 May 1904 at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate. Educated at Eton College 1917-22. matric: at Oxford (University College, 17 October 1922); 2nd class Science (Physiology) and BA 1926; MA 1930; BM and B.Ch. 1930; Medical Student at Oxford 1922-7 and St. Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth, 1927-30, DM 1932. Died at Ewhurst, Surrey, 14th June 1993 and buried at St. James' Abinger.

Member of the Royal College of Surgeons (England), Licentiate of Royal College of Physicians (London), Member of British Medical Association Jan 1930. Clinical Assistant St. Thomas' Hospital Feb-Aug 1930, Casualty and Outpatients' Officer to Evelina Hospital for Children, Southwark, August 1930-Feb 1931. House Physician Mar-Dec 1931, Obstetrical House Physician Mar-Sept 1932, at the Radcliffe Infirmary and County Hospital, Oxford.

Surgeon to Cobham Nursing Division St. John Ambulance 1937-50.

General Practitioner in Cobham, Surrey 1933-71. Lived at Broxmore, Cobham, Surrey 1933-38; at Leylands, Leigh Place, Cobham, 1938-71 and at Mercer's Cottage, The Common, Cranleigh, Surrey, 1971-1993

Birth:
20 Cleveland Gardens

Antony married Helen Margaret Leuchars on 21 Oct 1937 in Cobham, Surrey. Helen (daughter of William Wood Leuchars and Gwendoline Evelyn Fleming) was born on 2 Feb 1913 in Cobham, Surrey; died on 4 Nov 2013 in Reigate, Surrey; was buried on 18 Nov 2013 in St James, Abinger Common, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1901, Cramond, Midlothian, Scotland
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire; Age: 19; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Residence: 1922, South Yarra, Fawkner, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

1st son. Baptised 14 May 1891 at St. Giles, Oxford. Educated at Winchester College (scholar) 1904-10; matric at Oxford (scholar of New College) 1910; 1st class Mods. 1912; 1st class Lit. Humaniores 1914. Cremated at Springvale, nr. Melbourne.

At Winchester was "Prefect of Hall" 1909-10. Elected Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Oct. 1914 but never resided. In the Great War 2nd Lieut. 15 October 1914 in 6th (Glamorgan) Battalion (Territorial) of The Welsh Regiment. Temporary Captain 1915 as a Railway Transport Officer in France. On General Staff in France as A.D.C. to General Sir Tom Bridges (Head Quarters 19th Divn.) Dec. 1915-Nov. 1916. Returned to Ry. Transport Nov. 1916-May 1917. Thereafter in "Grand Quartier General" French Armies in liaison work till Mar. 1919. Temporary Major from September 1918. Medals, 1914 Star, British War medal, Allies (Victory) medal.

Joined Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, May 1919 and was one of the managers of their Australian Branch, Gibbs Bright & Co. 1920-30 (Melbourne 1920-23, Adelaide 1923-25, Sydney 1925-30). Headmaster of "Tudor House" Preparatory School nr. Mossvale, N.S.W. from 1931-38. Elected Vice-Chancellor, Melbourne University in 1938 from which post he retired in 1951. Knighted 1948.

A Trustee of the Australian National Gallery from 1941, and Chairman from 1951. Member of the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1942. President of the Australian Council for Educational Research 1948. Portrait by Max Meldrum in the John Medley building, part of the Arts Faculty, University of Melbourne.

1 son, David John Medley (United States citizen 1967), m. Ruth Crane and has issue. 1 daughter, Diana Mary m. Francis Barrington Hall, Chief of Protocol, Dept. of Foreign Affairs, Canberra (1978) and has issue.

John married Emmeline Mary Newbolt on 15 Sep 1916 in Southwark Cathedral, Surrey. Emmeline (daughter of Sir Francis George Newbolt and Alice Clara Franck Bright) was born on 5 Aug 1891 in Weybridge, Surrey; died on 4 Mar 1977 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Northamptonshire; Age in 1911: 18; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head: Visitor

Notes:

Baptised 18 July 1892 at St. Giles, Oxford. Educated at St. Paul's School, London and Glasgow College of Domestic Science.

Joined Voluntary Aid Detachment of Red Cross Society, Glasgow, 1914, and in the Great War served in hospitals at Wellingborough and Glasgow and in Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich.

Two sons: Peter Beauchamp Hogg m. Gabrielle Argentine Allington and has issue; Robin David Hogg m. Ruth Taylor and has issue.


Birth:
2 Keble Road

Isabel married Beauchamp Ferdinand Hogg on 17 Apr 1920 in Greenham, Hungerford, Berkshire. Beauchamp (son of Charles Edward Hogg and Caroline Hannah Roberts) was born on 15 Aug 1886 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; died on 17 May 1964 in Hungerford, Berkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

2nd son. Baptised 18 January 1894 at St. Giles, Oxford. Educated at Sedbergh school 1907-12 and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 1912-14. Cremated at Salisbury.

2nd Lieut. Royal Field Artillery July 1914. In the Great War Lieut. June 1915, Adjutant November 1915-November 1916. Acting Captain November 1916-November 1917 Captain November 1917. Acting Major November 1907-March 1919. Brevet
Major 1 July, 1931. Served in France September 1914-March 1915, June 1916-January 1918; May-September 1918; in Belgium March 1915-June 1916, January-May and September-Dec. 1918; in Germany December 1918-March 1919. Military Cross January 1917. Despatches twice (1916 and 1919). "Croix de Guerre avec palme" December 1918. 1914 Star. British War medal. Allies (Victory) Medal. After the war India 1919-26. At Staff College Camberley January 1927; passed January 1929. General Staff Officer (R.A.) 3rd grade, in the Aldershot Command October 1929-31; the same in the War Office from Oct. 1931. R.A.F. Staff College Andover 1934. G.S.O. 2 Malaya 1936-38. Awarded OBE 1938. Commanded 19th S.L. Militia Depot June-October 1939. Commanded 53rd Anti-Tank Regt. R.A. (Worcestershire Yeomanry) November 1939 to June 1940. In France Jan.-June 1940 when evacuated from Dunkirk. DSO 1940. Brigadier and Commander Corps Medium Artillery July 1940. Commander Corps R.A. Feb. 1941. Went to Middle East June 1941. Brigadier R.A. September 1941. Invalided to U.K. G.S.O. 1 Senior Officers' School 1942. Assistant Commandant Staff College 1943-44. Deputy Military Secretary, War Office 1944-46. Retired December 1946.

Lived at Holt, Trowbridge, Wiltshire 1946 to 1968 then at Thanes House, Shaftesbury, until his death.

1 son, George Julius Medley, OBE, Director of the World Wild Life Fund for Nature (WWF-UK) 1978-1993, m. Vera Frances Brand and has issue.

Birth:
7 Crick Road

Edgar married Norah Templer on 5 Oct 1929 in Barnstable, Devon. Norah (daughter of Robert Shawe Templer and Frances Anne Beauchamp) was born on 16 Nov 1906 in Monsoon Lodge, Colombo, Sri Lanka; died in Feb 1999 in Salisbury, Wiltshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire; Age: 14; Relation to Head of House: Daughter

Notes:

2nd daughter. Baptised 10 December1896 at St. Giles, Oxford.

In the Great War worked at Munitions in the firm of Barr and Stroud, Glasgow.

Two daughters: Anne Rosalind m. Jan Vanderwerff and has issue; Fiona Mary m. Michael Evans and has issue.

Buried at Rathfarnham.

Birth:
7 Crick Road

Died:
Grange House

Mary married Mark Startin Cassidy on 1 Jun 1918 in St. Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow. Mark was born on 29 Dec 1894 in Kensington, London; died on 5 Jun 1937 in Herefordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 27 Oct 1906
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire; Age: 4; Relation to Head of House: Son

Notes:

4th son. Baptised at Segrave, Northants 17 October 1906. Educated at Royal Naval Colleges of Osborne 1920-21, Dartmouth 1921-23.

Midshipman September 1924; Sub-Lieut. 1928; Lieut. April 1929. Has served in H.M.Ss. Benbow, Wessex, Cornwall, Sandwich and Devonshire. On the China station 1928-31; the Mediterranean station 1931, China 1932. Lieutenant Commander 1937. Commander 1940. Captain 1947. Served also in Crusader (Home Fleet; and Red Sea during Abyssinian War). R.N. Staff College 1937. Commanded destroyers Stronghold and Beagle 1938-39. In July 1939 appointed Staff Officer to Commodore, South American Division. At Battle of River Plate in Ajax (Despatches). Commanded Beagle for the second time in Greenock Escort Force 1942-43 and took part in Russian Convoys (D.S.O. July 1942) and North African Landing. Lent to Royal Canadian Navy March 1943 for command of C3 Atlantic Escort Group and served in Burnham, Saskatchewan and Prince Rupert. Appointed Staff Officer (Operations) to Commander-in-Chief,
Mediterranean, July 1944, at Caserta, Italy, and later at Malta. O.B.E. 1945. Drafting Commander, Portsmouth R.N. Barracks 1947-48. Commanded Cardigan Bay in Mediterranean and as Captain, 4th Frigate Flotilla on China Station 1948-50. Deputy Director Admiralty Operations Division 1950-52. Senior Directing Staff Officer at Joint Services Staff College, Latimer, Bucks., 1952-54. Chief Staff Officer to (French) Admiral, Central European Command at N.A.T.O. Headquarters at Fontainebleu 1955-57, as Commodore.

Retired March 1957. Became Clerk to the Worshipful Company of Sadlers from 1960-71. A Freeman of the City of London and Honorary Assistant of the Saddlers' Company in 1971. Lived at Emsworth, Hants. 1938-57 and from the latter year, at Biggs Cave, Dinton, Aylesbury, Bucks.

Retired first to Aynho, and then to Chilton House Nursing Home where he died.

2 daughters: Shirley Vivienne m. Robert Antony Lewis Phipps and has issue; Carolyn m. Ian Richard Taylor and has issue.

Birth:
Rectory

Ralph married Letitia Ethel Boyce on 16 Jun 1934 in Farringdon Church, Hungerford, Berkshire. Letitia (daughter of Harry Augustus Boyce and Minnie Gabriella Williams) was born on 21 Mar 1909 in Plymouth, Devon; died in Oct 2002 in Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lt. Commander Royal Navy (ret.) Only child. Baptised at Waltair 6 May 1895. Educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, 1908-10 and Royal Naval College, Dartmouth 1910-12. Cremated at West Norwood, Surrey.

Midshipman in the Royal Navy 1913; Sub- Lieut. 1915; Lieutenant 30 April 1917; Retired 1921; obtained rank of Lieut. Commander 30 April 1926. Served throughout the Great War (on HMS's Thunderer and Empress of India at Scapa Flow, Sloop Iris at Queenstown and in submarines in the North Sea), and was awarded the 1914 Star, British War medal, and Allies (Victory) medal. In employ of Minerals Separation Co. London and of allied firms on the Continent 1921-9; in Dorr Oliver Co. Ltd., Sales Engineers, London, from 1929. He and his wife lived from 1931 at Ash Cottage, Garrard Road, Banstead. Associate Member of Institute of Mechanical Engineers 1932. During World War II 1939-45 at Admiralty Offices in Glasgow and London.

Robert married Walda Elfriede E. Gruhn on 15 Mar 1930 in Berlin, Germany. Walda (daughter of Edwin Gruhn and Henriette Rothe) was born on 27 Nov 1908 in Berlin, Germany; died in Oct 2005 in Peterborough, Northamptonshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 Sep 1900, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1901, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire

Notes:

Baptised privately at Banbury Road, Oxford 1st September, and baptised privately there 21 September, and received into the Church 11 October 1900 at Clifton Hampden. Educated at Lancing College (scholar) 1914-19; matric. Oxford (Keble College) Michaelmas 1919, BA 1922, MA 1927. Student at Cuddesdon Theology College 1924. Memorial in Chester Cathedral.

In Lancing College 1st Cricket XI. Rowed in the Keble College VIII and rowed in the Oxford Trial VIII for selection for the University crew. Member of Oxford University Dramatic Society. Assistant master at Edgeborough, Guildford, 1922-4 (his prep. school before Lancing). Cuddesdon Theological College 1924-5. Ordained Deacon at Southwark 1925; Priest 1926. Curate of St. Mary, Putney, 1925-7. Assistant Priest of the Cathedral Chapel at Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia 1928-34; Sub-Dean of the Cathedral 1934. Rector of Bulawayo 1936-41; 1937 Archdeacon of Matabeleland. Rector of St. Saviour's, Claremont, Cape Town, 1941-47; Canon of Cape Town Cathedral 1946. Dean and Rector of St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town 1947-54. Dean of Chester 1954-62.

Chairman of the Transvaal and Southern Rhodesian Mission; Vice-President of the South African Church Institute; Chairman of the Missionary Council of Chester Diocese; Member of Convocation of York; Member of Church Assembly; Governor of the King's School and of the Queen's School, Chester; President of the Chester Rotary Club. Fostered contacts and understanding between the Clergy and the Medical Profession.
While he was Dean of Cape Town, building works were started to complete the south side of the cathedral and nave. These were finished in 1963.
Much of his time was devoted to spiritual counsel and direction, individually, through retreats, and helping others in need.

Interests: Fishing, acting, singing, walking, and as a young man, shooting. He was a very good shot, trained by Charlie Woodley, his Cousin Alban's (keeper at Clifton Hampden. A very good tennis player.

Memorials: Window in the north wall of Cape Town Cathedral; Memorial in the chapel of Ranche House College, Salisbury, Rhodesia, where his son John Michael was the first principal. Nave stalls in Chester Cathedral, dedicated on 18 June 1966. Grave stone in the floor, east side of south transept of Chester Cathedral.

Michael married Edith Marjorie Ward on 4 Aug 1926 in Long Wittenham, Berkshire. Edith (daughter of John Spencer Ward and Beatrix Leyla Marjory Wentworth Dunbar) was born on 25 Sep 1898 in Kensington, London; died on 18 Oct 1968 in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Berkshire; Relation to Head of House: Son

Notes:

3rd son of Canon Reginald Gibbs, MA. Baptised at Clifton Hampden 19 November 1905. Educated at Lancing College (Foundation Scholar) 1919-24 and at Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1924-26. Army Staff College, Camberley, 1939.

Captain of the School at Lancing and in the school Athletic Team in 1923 and 1924. At Sandhurst in the 1st Association football team; a junior under officer there; passed out 6th. Gazetted to The Queen's Royal Regiment February 1926 and joined 2nd Battalion in Allahabad, India, in March the same year, returning to UK via Sudan with his Regiment in 1928. Adjutant, Regimental Depot 1930. In 1934-35 at London University and in Italy studying Italian under War Office auspices, prior to becoming an Italian military Interpreter. A/Staff Captain 9 Inf. Bde., Portsmouth, 1936. Promoted Captain 1937 and appointed Adjutant 2nd Bn. Queen's Royal Regt. in Isle of Wight. Nominated to vacancy at Staff College, Camberley, January 1939.
Following outbreak of war in Sept. 1939 was appointed, in November, Staff Captain (A) G.H.Q. BEF France. In February 1940 Brigade Major 144 Inf. Bde. in 48 Divn. and in May, on the German invasion of Holland and Belgium, moved up with the Bde. to outskirts of Waterloo. Took part in the Retreat to Dunkirk and evacuated from Dunkirk beaches on 1st June 1940. (Mentioned in Despatches). 1940-41 on Staff at H.Q. 10 Corps, Catterick, and at H.Q. Eastern Comd. Luton Hoo. March 1942 appointed to command 1/6 Queen's Royal Regiment, serving in Egypt in 8th Army and taking part in battles of Bir el Munassib, Adam Haifa and El Alamein. Whilst serving in Egypt was mentioned in Despatches and awarded the DSO.
Captured in the Desert in October 1942 and taken by air to Italy. Held in various POW camps 1942-43, from Bari to near Cremona in the valley of the river Po, from whence he escaped from Campo PG49 at Fontanellato in Sept. 1943. Trekked 600 miles down the Apennines before reaching Allied Lines near Naples in November 1943. Details of the escape are recorded in a book, privately published, Apennine Journey, Diary of Travels across Italy after escaping from P.O.W. Camp.

November 1943-Feb. 1944 sick leave in U.K. June 10 1944 ordered to Normandy Beach Head to take over command of 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, whose C.O. had been killed in the Normandy landings 3 days earlier. Remained in command throughout operations in France, Belgium and Holland up to the Rhine in Germany. Awarded Bar to D.S.O. for action whilst under command of II Armd. Divn. near Falaise.

March 1945 appointed GSO I Liaison 24 Army Gp. and subsequently returned to U.K. to command 166 Inf. Officer Cadet Unit in Isle of Man. Oct. 1945 in command Basic O.C.T.U. Aldershot to reform it into the Mons Officer Cadet School; appointed Acting Colonel. 1946 in command 1st Bn. of his own Regiment, The Queen's Royal Regt. in Malaya. 1948 Commandant Eaton Hall Officer Cadet School, Chester. 1950 retired, remaining on Regular Army Reserve of Officers, with mobilization appointment in rank of full Colonel.

1950-63 market gardening at Roborough House, Nr. Plymouth; Member of Board of Governors, St. Dunstan's Abbey School, Plymouth 1951-66; Member of House of Laity, Church Assembly 1965-70; Church Warden, St. Mary the Virgin, Bickleigh, 1951-63, member of the P.C.C. and Manager of the Church School at Bickleigh; member of the P.C.C. of Parish Church of St. Eustachius, Tavistock, since 1965.

Interests: Gardening; Bird Watching (Member R.S.P.B.).

Clubs: Sometime member Junior United Service and Senior Army & Navy (the Rag); more recently, St. John House Club (Order of St. John of Jerusalem).

Portrait: Crayon by Robert Needham 1947.



From Cobbold Trust Tree:

When commanding 1/6 Queen's Royal Regiment with the 8th Army and taking part in the battles of Bir el Munassib, Adam Halfa and El Alamein, he was awarded his first DSO. He was captured in the desert but escaped from prison camp. The story of his escape is told in his privately published book, Apennine Journey. Following his escape he was ordered to Normandy to command 2nd Battalion of the Warwickshire Regiment whose CO had been killed in the Normandy landings three days earlier. He retained this command for the rest of the war and won his second DSO.
The citation states:
"On August 6th 1944 Lieut-Colonel Gibbs' battalion withstood a heavy and determined attack at le Bas Perrier from enemy infantry and Tiger tanks, preceded by intense artillery and mortar covering fire. One company area was overrun by tanks, which penetrated the battalion position. The action lasted from early afternoon till dusk, and the fire of enemy tanks dominated the battalion area the whole time, from the high ground above. Throughout this confused action, in which the battalion suffered heavy casualties, Lieut-Col. Gibbs had the situation well in hand. His calm, imperturbable behaviour was an inspiration to his junior leaders and soldiers. His clear orders, determination and complete disregard for his own safety under these very difficult circumstances had a most marked effect upon the course of the battle, and its successful outcome is a shining example of what the personality of a courageous leader can achieve."

At his funeral service on 4th May 1984 the address was given by Major General Sir Philip Ward. Here is what he said:

Once in a lifetime - maybe twice - if you have eyes to see - you will behold a man who you will recognise as one who is especially good, especially dear, in fact uniquely special. And if you have ears to hear you will reconise in him a voice that speaks the truth. In my lifetime, and I guess in the lifetime of most of you here this afternoon, Denis Gibbs was such a man. His influence on us all was far reaching, profound and wholly benign.

I originally met Denis on 1st January 1950 when I was appointed to my first job outside my regiment to be his Adjutant, when he was Commandant of Eaton Hall Officer Cadet School. My predecessor, like me, a Welsh Guardsman of tender years, in handing Denis over to me said - rather anxiously - "don't worry if at times he seems a little fierce; he tends occasionally to gnash his teeth and storm about, but if you stand your ground he turns out to be the kindest man on earth and you will get to love him". He also told me that Denis was given to writing little notes on very small pieces of paper, none of which were decipherable, but that it didn't matter because he always followed them up with verbal confirmation that left no room for misunderstanding. Well - he did storm about a bit and gnash his teeth, (seldom I'm happy to say at me), but his gnashes expired as quickly as they had begun, and ended with the object of his wrath being bought a reviving drink to settle things.

As to the writing, that too proved to be a correct warning, but it has become a source of intellectual delight far exceeding the solution of crossword puzzles, in all the time of friendship and correspondence that has ensued throughout the last four and thirty years. The trick, we found, was to open one of his letters at breakfast time and lie it flat on a convenient table or desk and let it get used to its new surroundings. We would then visit it during the day taking it, as it were, by surprise, and from a distance dart in and out, making out its meaning, bit by bit.

From these early days my alarm had changed to respect, from respect to affection and from affection to admiration and love. Denis Lucius Alban Gibbs was the third son and child of the five children of Canon Reginald Gibbs and his wife Lucia of Clifton Hampden in the county of Oxfordshire and was born in 1905. His brother Tom and his sister Joan survive him and they are here with us today. It was within this truly remarkable family that Denis received his grounding in the Christian Faith. He was carved into it, granite strong, and it was a faith that never left him. By it he was inspired, with it he inspired other people. It was the first of five foundation stones upon which his life was built.

The second foundation stone, chronologically, was his Regiment and the Army. He went to Sandhurst in the year that I was born, and was commissioned after an oustanding two years as a Gentleman Cadet into The Queen's Royal Regiment in 1926. he was lucky enough to serve in India and in the Sudan before such service was eclipsed by the aftermath of the Second World War. In those years before 1939 he became immersed in the art and ethos of regimental soldiery, honed and tempered for the most difficult of all levels of command - in his case that of Battalion Commander. But first, at the outbreak of war he was appointed Brigade major of 144 Infantry Brigade serving in France. He was Mentioned in despatches for his part in the evacuation from Dunkirk.

Then, in 1942, he was given command of 1/6 Battalion of his own Regiment, leading them at the battles of Alam Halfa and El Alamein. Here again he was Mentioned in Despatches and was awarded his first D.S.O.
Fate ordained that he should be captured in the desert, but fate also ordained that he should escape from his prison camp, and more of that in a moment. Meanwhile, after his return to this country, and a short spell of sick leave, he was ordered to Normandy to take over the 2nd Battalion of The Warwickshire Regiment whose Commanding Officer had been killed in the Normandy landings three days earlier. He remained in command throughout the rest of the war and received his second D.S.O. What a record: what a man.

The story of his escape from prison camp near Cremona in Italy is recorded in a slim, privately printed book, written by Denis, and called Apennine Journey, and is in itself a small classic of fortitude and resolution. Many of you will have read it, and in it you will have detected that self-effacing modesty and that concern for the people who helped him make good his escape, so typical of Denis. For all who understood soldiery, and for all who saw him at work right up until the time of his retirement in 1950, Denis was the Quintessential regimental officer: proud of his Sovereign and the Country which his regiment served: proud of the men he led.

In 1933, after seven years with his Regiment, another foundation stone, but of a very special kind, was laid, namely his marriage to Hilaria Edgcumbe. Here, if ever, was a marriage made in Heaven. The combined ingredients of love and their contrasting characteristics: the details of administration for him; the carefree serenity from her. Their combined interest in, compassion for and care of each other and of other people combined to make a marriage that was at once efficient and effective, and at the same time one that was as romantic at its end as it was at its beginning. So happy are we that they and all of us were able to share in the Golden Wedding celebrations last year.

Two more foundation stones. First the family. Four daughters, eleven grandchildren. Such a source of pride and happiness. Such special people as you would expect from such a parentage. Colourful, diverse in character,adventurous, individualistic, original, loving - sometimes presenting Denis with conundrums to be shared and solved, with advice to be sought and given, all activities which, though like all fathers doubtless sometimes driven wild by them, Denis relished to the full, and without which he would have felt a little cheated.

I come now to the last foundation stone: his Church: one allied so closely to the first of those which I suggested, his Faith. He was churchwarden and a member of the Parochial Church Council at Bickleigh, amongst his flowers and fruit whilst at Roborough, from 1951 to 1963. And of this church, here at Tavistock, a member of the Parochial Church Council from 1965 to his death. He was a most regular attender at all services of the Church's year deriving strength and comfort in such a quiet and modest way. If he was here (ie at Tavistock), or staying away, he never missed an Office if he could help it, and he epitomised what it is that the Church needs so desperately, if it is to survive and grow, namely the active participation of the Laity.

Faith and Family: Regiment, Queen and Country, The Church. These were Denis' talismen. By them he steered: by them he was formed into the man we knew. I have tried to hold before your eyes a looking glass. In it I hope you have seen a Denis whom you recognise. But be assured of this. We shall not see his like again, this side of Paradise.

Denis married Lady Hilaria Agnes Edgcumbe on 17 Oct 1933 in Aldenham Church, Aldenham, Hertfordshire. Hilaria (daughter of Kenelm William Edward Edgcumbe, 6th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe and Lilian Agnes Arkwright) was born on 16 Jan 1908 in Chelsea, London; died on 19 Nov 2009 in Plymouth, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
• Arrival: 18 Sep 1933, Southampton, Hampshire; Proposed address: Aldenham Vicarage, Watford, Herts - Residence Southern Rhodesia: Occupation: Painter. Also Thomas Reginald Gibbs - brother - Occupation: Missionary - 4 years older - previous residence Northern Rhodesia.

Notes:

Younger twin of Bridget. Baptised at Clifton Hampden 22 September 1907. Educated at St. Helen's School, Abingdon, 1918-25.

Art Student at Lucy Kemp Welsh Art School, Bushey, Herts. Heatherley's Art School, London; and Chelsea Polytechnic. Worked in the Admiralty O.D.5. Division 1941-45.

Interests: Painting.

Died 14 November 1995.

Joanna married Dr. Victor Bremner Purvis on 1 Oct 1945 in Chelsea, London. Victor (son of John Bremner Purvis and Elizabeth Annie Willis) was born on 13 Aug 1904 in Kampala, British East Africa; died on 26 Jan 1995 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Destination: Port Said, Egypt
• Baptism: 28 Dec 1905, St Katherine by the Tower, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Letheringham, Suffolk
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Letheringham, Suffolk; Age: 5; Relation to Head of House: Niece
• Departure: 23 Oct 1925, London; Age: 19

Barbara married Gilbert Edgar Francis Vandernoot, Major in 1929. Gilbert died in 1981. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: United Kingdom

Ruth married Capt Robert William Alfred Moore in 1939. Robert died in 1940. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ruth married Rev David Henry Aitcheson Williams in 1949. David died in 1955. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Eton, England

Charles married Valerie Catherine Mary Collbran on 2 Jul 1942, and was divorced in 1947. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Patricia Mary Clulow-Gray in Jun 1948 in Westminster, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Eton, England

Edmund married Janet Manson Watson on 18 May 1943 in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada. Janet died on 14 Feb 2006. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Anne Frances Clayton in 1948. Anne (daughter of Bertam Clayton and Kissack) was born on 13 Mar 1921 in Keighley, Yorkshire; died on 25 Mar 1971 in Cowley, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Major Peter Duke Doulton on 31 Jan 1939 in Westminster, London. Peter (son of Sir Orrok Mills Doulton and Catharine May Duke) was born on 31 Jan 1906 in 28 Oxley Rd., Wandsworth Common, Wandsworth, London; died on 29 Dec 1984 in Westminster, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Walter Arbuthnot Prideaux on 4 Feb 1937 in Westminster, London. Walter was born on 4 Jan 1904 in Paddington, London; died in 1995 in Crawley, West Sussex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]