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George Alfred Bathurst Norman



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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  George Alfred Bathurst Norman

    George married Susan Elizabeth Ball [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Harriet Anstice Bathurst Norman
    2. Charles Canning Bathurst-Norman

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Charles Bathurst Norman was born on 14 Jan 1904 (son of Harry Bathurst Norman, Rev.); died on 13 Jan 1979 in St John's, Jersey.

    Notes:

    Born 14 January 1904. Younger son of Rev. Harry Bathurst-Norman of Iwood Manor, Somerset. Educated at Harrow and Magdalen College, Oxford, BA (1925); MA (1954). Barrister-at-law, Middle Temple (1940). Buried at St. John's, Jersey, Channel Islands.

    Kenya Administration 1926, Zanzibar 1936, Palestine 1938, Kenya 1941, Retired 1946.

    Advocate of the Supreme Court of Kenya 1948. Resident Magistrate Kenya 1964-70.
    General Service Medal (Palestine) 1940.

    Clubs: Muthaiga Country Club, Nairobi.

    Charles married Doreen Albinia de Burgh Gibbs on 12 Nov 1937 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset. Doreen (daughter of The Right Hon. George Abraham Gibbs, 1st Baron Wraxall and Victoria Florence de Burgh Long) was born on 17 Sep 1913 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset; died on 25 Jan 2008 in St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Doreen Albinia de Burgh GibbsDoreen Albinia de Burgh Gibbs was born on 17 Sep 1913 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset (daughter of The Right Hon. George Abraham Gibbs, 1st Baron Wraxall and Victoria Florence de Burgh Long); died on 25 Jan 2008 in St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands.

    Notes:

    Born 17 September 1913. Baptised privately at Tyntesfield and received into the Church 29 November 1913 at Wraxall.

    Portraits: min. in diamond locket (1916), min. by M. R. (1917), water colour drawing aged 4, portrait by W. R. Symonds (1917), min. by Miss E. C. Brisley full length (1925); were all five in possn. of Lord Wraxall in 1930.

    Last address: Villa Villetri, Vallee des Vaux, St. Helier, Jersey, C.I.

    Children:
    1. 1. George Alfred Bathurst Norman
    2. Victoria Mary Bathurst Norman


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Harry Bathurst Norman, Rev.
    Children:
    1. 2. Charles Bathurst Norman was born on 14 Jan 1904; died on 13 Jan 1979 in St John's, Jersey.

  2. 6.  The Right Hon. George Abraham Gibbs, 1st Baron WraxallThe Right Hon. George Abraham Gibbs, 1st Baron Wraxall was born on 6 Jul 1873 in Wraxall, Somerset (son of Antony Gibbs, of Tyntesfield and Janet Louisa Merivale); died on 28 Oct 1931 in London; was buried on 31 Oct 1931 in Wraxall, Somerset.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Baptism: 3 Aug 1873, Wraxall, Somerset
    • Residence: 1881, Wraxall, Somerset
    • Residence: 1891, Wraxall, Somerset
    • Residence: 14 Oct 1892, Oxford, Oxfordshire
    • Residence: 1901, London
    • Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Wraxall, Somerset

    Notes:

    George Abraham Gibbs, 1st Baron Wraxall, PC DL (6 July 1873 – 28 October 1931), was a British Conservative politician. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gibbs,_1st_Baron_Wraxall



    Birth:
    Charlton on the Tyntesfield Estate

    George married Victoria Florence de Burgh Long on 26 Nov 1901 in All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, Westminster, London. Victoria (daughter of Viscount Walter Hume Long and Dorothy Blanche Boyle) was born on 10 Aug 1880 in 1 Grafton Street, Westminster, London; died on 29 Mar 1920 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  3. 7.  Victoria Florence de Burgh LongVictoria Florence de Burgh Long was born on 10 Aug 1880 in 1 Grafton Street, Westminster, London (daughter of Viscount Walter Hume Long and Dorothy Blanche Boyle); died on 29 Mar 1920 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Residence: 1881, London
    • Residence: 1891, Croughton, Northamptonshire
    • Residence: 1901, Westminster, London
    • Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Wraxall, Somerset

    Notes:

    1st daughter of the Right Hon. Walter Hume Long, PC of Rood Ashton, Wiltshire, who was created 1921 Viscount Long of Wraxall (Wraxall, Wiltshire), by Lady Dorothy Blanche, 4th daughter of Richard E. St. L. Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork and Orrery. Baptised at St. James's, Piccadilly, in London. Died at Tyntesfield 29 March, and was buried 1 April 1920 at Wraxall, Somerset. Memorial Inscription in the church (Charlton chapel) and churchyard, and in Tyntesfield chapel. Died of Spanish Flu epidemic.

    In the Great War she directed the Bristol Soldiers' and Sailors' Help Society. She was chairman of the Ladies' House and Social Committee of the Bristol branch of the Royal Colonial Institute, and was an active member of the Bristol Women's Unionist Association. A Commander of the Order of the British Empire 1918.

    She is commemorated in Bristol by the "Victoria Gibbs Babies' Home" at Kingsdown.

    Her life by Madeleine Alston (Via Gibbs, a Memoir) was published in 1921.

    Portraits: Min. in emeralds (1903), 2 by Alb. H. Collings (1908); all 3 last in possession of Lord Wraxall in 1930.

    Children:
    1. George Antony Gibbs was born on 5 Sep 1911 in Long Ashton, Somerset; died on 5 Sep 1911 in Long Ashton, Somerset.
    2. 3. Doreen Albinia de Burgh Gibbs was born on 17 Sep 1913 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset; died on 25 Jan 2008 in St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands.
    3. Antony Eustace Long Gibbs was born on 24 Sep 1916 in London; died on 29 Nov 1916 in London.


Generation: 4

  1. 12.  Antony Gibbs, of TyntesfieldAntony Gibbs, of Tyntesfield was born on 10 Dec 1841 in London (son of William Gibbs, of Tyntesfield and Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey); died on 24 Apr 1907 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset; was buried on 29 Apr 1907 in Wraxall, Somerset.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Occupation: High Sheriff, county Somerset
    • Baptism: 11 Jan 1842, St Johns, Paddington, London
    • Residence: 1901, Paddington, London

    Notes:

    1st son of Tyntesfield. Baptised 11 January 1842 at St. John's, Paddington. Educated at Radley College 1855-7; matric. at Oxford (Exeter College) 2 May 1862; BA 1867; MA 1869; entered at the Inner Temple as a student 1865. Died at Tyntesfield 24 and was buried 29 April 1907 at Wraxall, Somerset. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there and in the chapel (Charlton chapel), in Tyntesfield chapel and Keble College chapel; Memorial window in Clyst St. George chapel. Will dated 23 March 1905, proved 12 July 1907.

    After marriage, Charlton (see entry for William Gibbs of Tyntesfield) was his country residence till his mother died; thereafter Tyntesfield. He succeeded to his father's properties in Somerset and Devon. He bought Barrow Court in Barrow Gurney, Somerset, adjoining Flax Bourton, from John Henry Blagrave in 1881 and sold it (with most of its land) to his brother Martin in 1884 and he augmented the living of Barrow Gurney. He bought, about 1874, Barton Place in the parish of St. David, Exeter, the ancestral home of his wife's family. He was patron of the livings of Clyst St. George, Exwick, Stowe-nine-churches, St. Michael's in Paddington, North Newton and Otterbourne which were all in his father's gift, also of Alphington, Devon, and of Flax Barton (in which part of the Tyntesfield Estate lies) both of which he bought.

    A member of the Council of Radley College 1890-7. He and his brother, Martin, gave to Keble College, Oxford, in their father's memory, the side of the main quadrangle of the College embracing the hall, library, common rooms and kitchen. The foundation stone was laid in 1876, on the same day that the Chapel given by their father to the College was opened (see also entry for William Gibbs of Tyntesfield), and the opening took place in 1878, when the two brothers, whose names had so far been withheld, were disclosed as the donors (the deed of gift hangs in the Senior Common Room of the College).

    Wraxall church was restored (1893) at his chief cost (Sir Arthur Blomfield, architect), and he introduced the stained glass windows by Kemp, and screened off the Charlton chapel, adding to it the reredos by Kemp.

    He joined the North Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry as Cornet, 3 January, 1871; Captain October, 1881; Hon. Major, 1881; Major, 1886; retired 1893.

    Justice of the Peace for Somerset from about 1867 to 1907. On the Highway Board and Board of Guardians. High Sheriff of Somerset for 1888 and Deputy Lieutenant 1889-1907. An Alderman of the Somerset County Council to 1898. President of the North Somerset Conservative Association for a great number of years. A Life Governor of Bristol General Hospital. On Bristol Diocesan committees for the promotion of Church matters. (In Sidney Lee's 'Life of King Edward VII (1923-7) it is related that the King when Prince of Wales twice in 1881 pressed on Gladstone the bestowal of a Baronetcy on Antony Gibbs. His son Lord Wraxall told John Arthur Gibbs - fourth editor of the Gibbs Pedigree - that this story was inaccurate and he asked Lee to omit it from any later edition, the facts being that the Liberal Whip Marjoribanks (later Lord Tweedmouth invited Antony to an interview, at which he said that gladstone desired to suggest him to the Queen for a Peerage, making reference to his and his father's philanthropic works, but that Antony having then mentioned that he was a Conservative he heard no more of the matter

    Portraits: as a child by John Phillip, miniature with his father and sister Dorothea by Sir Wm. Ross, oil by J. H. Lorimer; all last in possession of Lord Wraxall in 1930 (11). The portrait in the Hall of Keble College is a copy by F. George Swaish of the Lorimer.

    Birth:
    13 Hyde Park Gardens

    Antony married Janet Louisa Merivale on 22 Jun 1872 in St. Michael's, Star Street, Paddington. Janet (daughter of John Louis Merivale and Mary Anne Webster) was born on 15 Dec 1850 in Kilburn, Middlesex; died on 10 Dec 1909 in London; was buried on 14 Dec 1909 in Wraxall, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 13.  Janet Louisa MerivaleJanet Louisa Merivale was born on 15 Dec 1850 in Kilburn, Middlesex (daughter of John Louis Merivale and Mary Anne Webster); died on 10 Dec 1909 in London; was buried on 14 Dec 1909 in Wraxall, Somerset.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Baptism: 25 Jan 1851, Hampstead, London
    • Residence: 1861, Exeter St David, Exeter, Devon
    • Residence: 1881, Wraxall, Somerset

    Notes:

    1st daughter of John Louis Merrivale (died 1886) by his 1st wife Mary Anne, daughter of Joseph Webster. Baptised 25 January 1851 at the parish church of Hampstead, Middlesex. Died at 104 Eaton Square, Westminster, 10th and was buried 14 December 1909 at Wraxall, Somerset. Memorial Inscription in same places as her husband's except Keble College. Will dated 17 August 1908, proved 20 January 1910.

    After her husband died she resided at Charlton aforesaid, and for her London house took 104 Eaton Sq., Westminster, in place of 16 Hyde Park Gds. aforesaid. the lease of which she sold. One of her brothers, George Montagu Merivale (1855-1931) was a partner in Gibbs, Bright & Co., Sydney, Australia, till 1924. Her father was Senior Registrar in Chancery and brother of Herman Merivale, C.B., and of Charles, Dean of Ely, whose lives are in Dictionary National Biography.

    Her father's 2nd wife was his cousin, Frances Rose, sister of Baron John Benjamin Heath (born 1879), who was son of John Heath of the firm Heath and Co., Genoa. For the Merivale family and their relatives of the Heath, Drury, Malet and Frere families, and for printed books which refer to them see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs. The friendship between the Gibbs and Merivale families began in 1803 when Antony Gibbs (born 1756) went to live at Cowley near Barton Place.

    Portrait by Archer (1875) with her son George
    (Lord Wraxall) was last in possession of the latter, 1930.

    Children:
    1. 6. The Right Hon. George Abraham Gibbs, 1st Baron Wraxall was born on 6 Jul 1873 in Wraxall, Somerset; died on 28 Oct 1931 in London; was buried on 31 Oct 1931 in Wraxall, Somerset.
    2. Antony Hubert Gibbs, JP was born on 18 Sep 1874 in Wraxall, Somerset; died on 28 Jul 1957 in Pytte, Clyst St George, Devon; was buried in Clyst St George, Devon.
    3. Albinia Rose Gibbs was born on 31 Mar 1876 in Paddington, London; died on 3 Oct 1941 in Thornbury, Gloucestershire.
    4. Lieut. Colonel William Gibbs, CVO was born on 20 Nov 1877 in Paddington, London; died on 25 Jan 1963 in Hatherop, Gloucestershire.
    5. Colonel John Evelyn Gibbs, MC was born on 22 Dec 1879 in London; died on 11 Oct 1932 in Tetbury, Gloucestershire; was buried in Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire.
    6. Anstice Katherine Gibbs was born on 12 Sep 1881 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset; died on 8 Jan 1963 in Chelsea, London.
    7. Louis Merivale Gibbs was born on 24 Apr 1883 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset; died on 1 May 1884 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset.
    8. Captain Eustace Lyle Gibbs was born on 10 Mar 1885 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset; died on 11 Feb 1915 in Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium; was buried in Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium.
    9. Janet Blanche Gibbs was born on 15 Apr 1887 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset; died on 4 Jun 1974 in Chippenham, Wiltshire.
    10. Lancelot Merivale Gibbs, Brid. CVO DSO MC was born on 23 Dec 1889 in Wraxall, Somerset; died on 8 Dec 1966 in Gloucestershire; was buried in Dec 1966 in Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire.

  3. 14.  Viscount Walter Hume LongViscount Walter Hume Long was born on 13 Jul 1854 in Bath, Somerset (son of Richard Penruddocks Long and Charlotte Anna Hume Dick); died on 26 Sep 1924 in Westbury, Wiltshire; was buried on 1 Oct 1924 in West Ashton, Wiltshire.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Residence: 1861, Kerry, Montgomeryshire, Wales

    Notes:

    Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long, PC, JP, FRS (13 July 1854 – 26 September 1924), was a British Unionist politician. In a political career spanning over 40 years, he held office as President of the Board of Agriculture, President of the Local Government Board, Chief Secretary for Ireland, Secretary of State for the Colonies and First Lord of the Admiralty. He is also remembered for his links with Irish Unionism, and served as Leader of the Irish Unionist Party in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1910. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Long,_1st_Viscount_Long

    Walter married Dorothy Blanche Boyle on 1 Aug 1878 in St George Hanover Square, London. Dorothy (daughter of Richard Edmund St Lawrence Boyle, 9th Earl Of Cork and Emily Charlotte De Burgh) was born on 18 Nov 1858 in London; died on 7 Jun 1938 in Steeple Ashton, Trowbridge, Wiltshire; was buried on 10 Jun 1938 in Steeple Ashton, Trowbridge, Wiltshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 15.  Dorothy Blanche BoyleDorothy Blanche Boyle was born on 18 Nov 1858 in London (daughter of Richard Edmund St Lawrence Boyle, 9th Earl Of Cork and Emily Charlotte De Burgh); died on 7 Jun 1938 in Steeple Ashton, Trowbridge, Wiltshire; was buried on 10 Jun 1938 in Steeple Ashton, Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
    Children:
    1. Brigadier-General Walter Long was born on 26 Jul 1879 in Charles St W, London; died on 27 Jan 1917 in Hébuterne, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; was buried in Couin British Cemetery, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
    2. 7. Victoria Florence de Burgh Long was born on 10 Aug 1880 in 1 Grafton Street, Westminster, London; died on 29 Mar 1920 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset.
    3. Lettice Margaret Long was born on 1 Nov 1885 in Tronbridge West Ashton, Wiltshire; died on 1 Sep 1950 in East Tytherton, Wiltshire.
    4. Richard Eric Onslow Long, 3rd Viscount Long was born on 22 Aug 1892 in Tronbridge West Ashton, Wiltshire; died on 12 Jan 1967 in Bath, Somerset.