Maria Elizabeth Gibbs

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1851, Catsfield, Sussex
• Residence: 1861, Catsfield, Sussex
• Residence: 1871, Catsfield, Sussex

Notes:

Lady Maria Elizabeth Pilkington on marriage.

On marriage she and her husband lived first in Bedford Place, but later in the same year she returned to her parents' house, till 1820 when they were reunited. Portraits: Pastel head by Mrs. Hoare of Bath and drawing by J. Gilbert (1862) in possession of her family (copy of former in possession of Lord Aldenham) in 1932.

Maria married Lieut. General Sir Andrew Pilkington on 9 May 1808 in Hayes, Kent. Andrew (son of Thomas Pilkington and Anne Philips) was born in 1767 in Catsfield Place, Sussex; died on 23 Feb 1853 in Catsfield Place, Sussex; was buried in Catsfield, Sussex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Maria Georgiana Pilkington was born on 23 Jun 1822 in Little Sambourne, Hampshire; died on 12 Aug 1922 in Catsfield, Sussex.
2. Louise Elizabeth Pilkington was born on 14 May 1824 in Hayes, Kent; died in Nov 1893 in Catsfield, Sussex.

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• Memorial: Hayes, Kent; Memorial Inscription in church and church yard
• Residence: Middle Temple, Middlesex
• Baptism: 12 Nov 1751, Mint Chapel, Exeter
• Residence: 1788, St Giles in the Fields and St George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England
• Residence: 1789, St Giles in the Fields and St George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England
• Title: Feb 1805; Solicitor-General
• Title: 1807; Attorney-General
• Title: Nov 1813; Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer
• Title: Feb 1814; Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
• Residence: 1818, St Giles in the Fields and St George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England
• Will: 6 Oct 1818; Will dated 6 Oct 1818 and proved Mar 1820 in C.P.C.

Notes:

Educated at Exeter Grammar School and (17 March 1764-70) at Eton College (King's scholar there); elected scholar King's College, Cambridge 1770; Craven scholar of the University 1772; Fellow of King's College 1774-84; B.A. 1775; M.A. 1778.

Entered as a student of Lincoln's Inn 24 August 1769. Called to the Bar 26 January 1780. A Lieut. in the Corps "Devil's Own" 1780. A "Special Pleader" for many years. Joined Western Circuit 1783. Recorder of Bristol February 1794. Assistant to Erskine (for the defendants) in the Treason trials in the autumn of 1794, when in honour of their success medals were struck bearing their portraits. King's Counsel 1794 or 5. Solicitor General to the Prince of Wales 1795-9; Attorney General to the Prince 1799-1804. Chief Justice of the court of Session of the County Palatine of Chester July 1804. Member of Parliament for Totnes, Devon, 1804-6. Solicitor General to the Government 12 February 1805-January 1806; knighted 20 February 1805; resigned office on Pitt's death January 1806; Member of Parliament for Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, 18 - 22 April 1806; for Cambridge University May 1807 to May 1812. Attorney General April 1807 - May 1812. Resigned Parliament after the murder of his friend the Premier, and was made a Serjeant-at-law and a Puisne Judge of the Court of Common Pleas May 1812. Chief Baron of the Exchequer 8 November 1813. A Privy Councillor from 30 November 1813. Chief Justice of Common Pleas 24 February 1814 - resigned 5 November 1818. Resigned from offices of Recorder, Common Councillor, and Senior Alderman of Bristol, 1 December 1817. His 'Speech in the case of Dr. R. B. Remmett v. Archer' and 'Speeches in defence of Thomas Hardy and Horne Tooke' (1795) are printed. His successive residences after his marriage were: in Red Lion Square (Holborn); in Bloomsbury Square to 1796; 6 Bloomsbury Place from 1796; 42 Bedford Square from at least 1800; 35 Russell Square from at least 1811; 67 Russell Square from 1814. Also from at least 1802 Hayes Grove on Hayes Common, Kent.

For biographies of him see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J. A. Gibbs (and the Additions to it of 1927), the Dictionary of National Biography, books mentioned in the latter, and books mentioned in Gibbs Pedigree (1904 edition) pp. xix and xx of the Introduction.



History of Parliament website on Vicary Gibbs:
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/gibbs-vicary-1751-1820

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicary_Gibbs

Vicary married Lady Frances Cerjat Kenneth Mackenzie on 8 Jul 1784 in St Marylebone Chapel, London. Frances (daughter of William MacKenzie, Major and Mary Humberston) was born in 1755 in London; died on 1 May 1843 in Hayes, Kent. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Hayes, Kent
• Civil: 9 Jun 1843

Notes:

As a widow she lived till her death in her husband's house in Hayes, now called Hayes Grove. For many details about her and for her brothers and sisters (indexed under Mackenzie, Seaforth, and Fraser) see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs and the Additions to it of 1927. For note of portraits see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs', p. 434 and Gibbs Pedigree (1904 edition).

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• Occupation: Surgeon

Notes:

George Abraham Gibbs of Pytte succeeded in 1744 to Pytte and other property in Clyst St. George as heir at law (after his father) to his great uncle George Gibbs, by arranging for the ending of a tenancy to the family of Rev. F. Pease, rector of the parish, created under dispositions made by the said George. In 1749 that family also transferred to him 15 acres in Clyst St. Mary (part of the "Manor of Ashmore") which were subject to the charitable charges which the same George had imposed on them. He bought Court Place in Clyst St. George, made 100 acres in that parish.
He was a Presbyterian in the early part of his life. In October 1745 he was enrolled in an Association of Exeter men in support of the King against the Young Pretender. He was one of the surgeons (eventually chief surgeon) of the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter from 1747 to 1781, and thereafter on its standing committee. His residence in Exeter during his married life was in Palace Yard, Cathedral Close.
Becoming bankrupt in 1789 through the failure of business in which he was engaged with his son Antony, he lost all his property in Clyst St. George and Clyst St. Mary, including Pytte, which was bought in 1790 by his son-in-law, Rev. Charles Crawley. He used the arms of Gibbs of Fenton like his great uncle George and his cousins of Exeter.

Buried:
Register of Clyst St George, Devon, 1565-1812, Vol 25

George married Anne Vicary, of Dunkeswell on 22 Dec 1747 in St Petrock's, Exeter, Devon. Anne (daughter of Anthony Vicary, Esq. and Elizabeth Munckley) was born on 4 Nov 1722 in Exeter, Devon; died on 11 Aug 1803 in Clyst St George, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 4 Nov 1722, Exeter, Devon

Notes:

Believed to belong to the family of Vicary of Dunkeswell, Devon, but proof lacks other than that papers exist sealed by her husband, and by her sister's husband, Hugh Mallett, with their own arms impaling the Vicary arms, or (after the death of the last of her brothers) bearing them on an escuthcheon of pretence (see G.A.Gibbs's will and a letter of 1793 in Aldenham Genealogical Cols, Vol. A, p.223 and Vol. C,1 p.383; also Gibbs Ped. 1904 edn p.xvii and its Preface of 1903). Her husband's house in Palace Yard, Exeter, continued to be her home till her death. Her first cousin Samuel Munckley was the founder of the Bristol house of business which later became Gibbs Bright & Co.

Birth:
Mint Chapel

William married Mary Humberston. Mary was born in 1725 in Humberstone, Leicestershire; died on 19 Feb 1813 in Hartley, Herts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Gentleman and Heir at law to Pytte
• Birth: Feb 1687
• Baptism: 8 Mar 1687, Clyst St George, Devon

Notes:

Heir at law to Pytte, but did not succeed to it. His baptism in the Parish Register of Clyste St. George is the first entry in which the surname is clearly spelt Gibbs. For a conjectural portrait of him bought in 1912 see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J. A. Gibbs. His will, proved by his widow, mentions sons George Abraham, John and daughter Anna.

Abraham married Mary Moncke on 7 Mar 1710 in Topsham, Devon. Mary (daughter of Nehemiah Moncke and Mary Baker) was born on 31 Dec 1686 in Clyst St George, Devon; died on 14 Aug 1722; was buried on 14 Aug 1722. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Mary Monk
• Name: Mary Monke
• Baptism: 31 Dec 1686, Topsham, Devon
• Christening: 31 Dec 1686, Topsham, Devon

Notes:

Second daughter of Nehemiah Moncke of Topsham. Her mother, Mary Baker, was baptised 10 March 1655-6 at Clyst St. George and married there 11 December 1681. For a belief that Mary Monke descended from the family of Monke of Potheridge, Devon (that of General Monk, 1st Duke of Albemarle) see Gibbs Pedigree 1904, p. xvii and Additions of 1927 to the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs. Lord Aldenham had in 1932 a portrait, bought in 1912, believed to be of her.

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• Residence: 20 Aug 1717, Exeter, Devon
• Residence: 23 Mar 1730, Exeter, Devon

Anthony married Elizabeth Munckley on 9 Nov 1713 in St. John, Exeter, Devon. Elizabeth (daughter of Nicholas Munckley and Elizabeth Bowden) was born on 31 May 1691 in Exeter, Devon; was christened on 14 Jun 1691 in Exeter, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]