Emily Anna Otter

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 9 Apr 1854, Cowfold, Sussex
• Residence: 1861, Cowfold, Sussex
• Residence: 1891, London
• Residence: 1901, Berkshire

Notes:

5th daughter of Rev. William Bruere Otter, Archdeacon of Lewes, by Elizabeth, 3rd and youngest daughter of Robert Melvil, English Consul at Amsterdam. Baptised 9 April 1854 in Cowfold Parish Church. Buried 8 July 1928 at Barrow Gurney. Memorial Inscription in the churchyard there and in Barrow Court chapel. Memorial reredos and Memorial window, both as aforesaid under her husband. Administration 23 November 1928.

The following is a selection from a number of posts which she held at different times. In 1920 she resigned from sixteen on account of ill health. An original member of the General and Exec. Committees of the Somerset Federation of Women's Institutes, 1902-12, and an elected Vice-President, 1902-28; President of the Barrow-Gurney Women's Institute till 1928; Founder and President of the local Nursing Association; for many years on the Committee of the Somerset Association of the Welfare of Women and Girls:
co-opted Member of the Board of Guardians of Long Ashton afsd. 1904-28, and acted on many of its sub-committees; on the Somerset County Education Committee, 1903-20, and co-opted Member of its Special Subjects Committee, 1913-20; a Trustee of St. Michael's Home afsd. till 1928; on the Council of Bristol Blind School for many years till 1928; on the General Committee of Bristol Blind Asylum 1912-28; founded in 1912 the North Somerset Women's Unionist Association and was President and Chairman thereof; Local Representative of the Long Ashton War Pensions Sub-committee, 1914-20.

Portraits: By Wm. Walker (1883); by Goldsborough Anderson (1905); min. by Miss Hall, last in possession of her son Major Anthony Gibbs.

Birth:
Vicarage

Died:
Car Accident

Emily married Henry Martin Gibbs, High Sheriff, Somerset on 22 Jun 1883 in Lindfield, Sussex. Henry (son of William Gibbs, of Tyntesfield and Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey) was born on 30 May 1850 in Paddington, London; died on 22 Apr 1928 in Barrow Gurney, Somerset; was buried on 25 Apr 1928 in Barrow Gurney, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Lieut. Colonel William Otter Gibbs was born on 13 Sep 1883 in Clifton, Gloucestershire; died on 22 Mar 1960; was buried in Mar 1960 in Barrow Gurney, Somerset.
2. Lieut. Noel Martin Gibbs was born on 25 Dec 1884 in Barrow Gurney, Somerset; died on 20 Mar 1916 in Kahe, German East Africa; was buried in Moschi, Tanzania.
3. The Rev. Francis Antony Woodard Gibbs was born on 17 Dec 1885 in Barrow Court, Barrow Gurney, Somerset; died on 3 Aug 1946 in Fairford, Gloucestershire.
4. Roland Vicary Gibbs was born on 16 Mar 1887 in Barrow Gurney, Somerset; died on 19 Jul 1909 in Barrow Gurney, Somerset.
5. Matilda Blanche Gibbs was born on 20 Nov 1888 in Barrow Gurney, Somerset; died on 14 Jan 1889 in Barrow Gurney, Somerset.
6. Major Guy Melvil Gibbs was born on 15 Dec 1889 in Paddington, London; died on 14 Mar 1959 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire; was buried in Barrow Gurney, Somerset.
7. Ralph Crawley Boevey Gibbs was born on 24 Jul 1891 in Barrow Court, Barrow Gurney, Somerset; died on 10 Aug 1957 in Rudston, Yorkshire.
8. Captain Lionel Cyril Gibbs was born on 15 Feb 1893 in Flax Bourton, Somerset; died on 25 Dec 1940 in Hampshire.
9. Mary Albinia Gibbs was born on 5 Nov 1894 in Down Ampney, Gloucestershire; died on 15 Sep 1979.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Christening: 22 Jul 1805, Colmworth, Bedfordshire
• Birth: Abt 1816
• Residence: 1851, Cowfold, Sussex; Age: 45; Relationship: Head

Notes:

William Bruère Otter (28 May 1805 – 25 June 1876) was an Anglican cleric who was the Archdeacon of Lewes from 1855 until his death in 1876.

William Otter was the son of William Otter, Bishop of Chicester and his wife, born Nancy Sadleir Bruère. He was educated at Rugby, Charterhouse and King's College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1828. Ordained in 1830, he was Vicar of Eyeworth from 1832 to 1836, Vicar of Kinlet from 1837 to 1847, Vicar of Cowfold from 1839 to 1876 and Prebendary of Chichester from 1850 to 1876. He died at Cowfold on 25 June 1876.

Source: Wikipedia

William married Elizabeth Melvil on 18 May 1837 in 's-Gravenhage, S-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert Melvil and Elisabeth Skurray) was born on 13 Oct 1814 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands; died on 17 Jan 1892 in Cowfold, West Sussex; was buried in Cowfold, West Sussex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elizabeth Melvil was born in the Netherlands to Robert Melvil and Elisabeth Skurray on 13 October 1814. She married William Bruere Otter in The Hague, Nethlerlands 18 May 1837. They had one child, Elizabeth, in the Netherlands; then went to Cowfold, Sussex, England where eight more children were born.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Christening: 19 Nov 1768, Cuckney, Nottinghamshire
• Occupation: 1836, Chichester, Sussex; Bishop of Chichester

Notes:

William Otter (23 October 1768 – 20 August 1840) was the first Principal of King's College, London, who later served as Bishop of Chichester. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge where he was later made a fellow. He was appointed Principal of the newly established King's College, London, in 1831, and held the post until 1836 when he was appointed Bishop of Chichester.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Otter

William married Nancy Sadlier Bruere on 3 Jul 1804 in Leatherhead, Surrey. Nancy (daughter of William Bruere and Anne or Nancy Sadlier) was born on 8 Jun 1784 in Calcutta, Bengal, India; died on 12 Mar 1860 in Effingham, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Elisabeth Skurray on 2 Nov 1801 in Mortlake, Surrey. Elisabeth was born in 1775 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

William Bruere became secretary to the Government of the Bengal Presidency of British India and a member of the Council of India. He married Anne Sadleir, and their daughter Nancy Sadleir Bruere married in 1846 William Otter, later Principal of King's College London and Bishop of Chichester.

William married Anne or Nancy Sadlier on 19 Jan 1782 in Calcutta, Bengal, India. Anne was born in 1758 in Bengal, India; died in Jan 1803 in Stanmore, Middlesex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]