Miranda Caroline Gibbs

Miranda married Andrew David Fox Jolliffe [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 13 Aug 1929, Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset
• Occupation: Between 1982 and 1986; Vice Marshal, The Diplomatic Corps

Notes:

Baptised 13 August 1929 in the chapel at Tyntesfield. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, BA (1952), MA (1965). ARCM (1953).

2nd Lieut. Coldstream Guards 1948-49; Foreign Service London, 1954-55 (3rd Secretary); Bangkok 1955-57 (3rd Secretary); London 1957-59; Rio de Janeiro 1959-63 (2nd Secretary); Attached British Military Government, Berlin 1966-68 (1st Secretary); Vienna 1968-71 (1st Secretary); Caracas 1971-74; Royal College of Defence Studies 1974. London, 1975-77 (Counsellor). Paris, 1977- (Counsellor and Consul General).

Clubs: Brooks, Pratts, Beefsteak.

Address: Coddenham House, Ipswich, Suffolk.



Eustace Hubert Beilby Gibbs, 3rd Baron Wraxall, KCVO, CMG (3 July 1929 – 17 May 2017), was a British diplomat and hereditary peer who succeeded his brother, Richard Gibbs, 2nd Baron Wraxall, on 19 July 2001. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustace_Gibbs,_3rd_Baron_Wraxall

Eustace married Evelyn Veronica Scott on 23 Oct 1957 in Westminster, London. Evelyn (daughter of Sydney Keith Scott and Enid Ursula Moore) was born on 9 Sep 1935 in Kolkata, West Bengal, India; died on 14 Dec 2003 in Gipping, Suffolk. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Departure: Bombay, India
• Baptism: Oct 1935, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
• Arrival: 20 Apr 1936, London
• Arrival: 1 Dec 1960, London

Notes:

Only daughter of Sydney Keith Scott of Roydon Grove Farm, Southwold, Suffolk. Baptised in October 1935 at St. Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta. Educated at Benenden School, Kent.

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 Hon Ursula Mary Lawley, Baroness Wraxall, OBE, RRC on 21 Jul 1927 in St Margaret's, Westminster, London. Ursula (daughter of Arthur Lawley, 6th Baron Wenlock and Annie Allen Cunard, Baroness Wenlock, GBE) was born on 8 Jun 1888 in Fulford, Yorkshire; died on 16 Oct 1979 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset; was buried on 20 Oct 1979 in All Saint's Church, Wraxall, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1891, Fulford, Yorkshire

Notes:

Eldest daughter of Captain Hon. Sir Arthur Lawley (6th Baron Wenlock) GCSI, GCIE, KCMG, of Woodside Place, Hatfield, Herts., by Anne Allen (GBE, DGStJ), daughter of Sir Edward Cunard, 2nd Baronet. She is 2nd cousin to Euphemia Gibbs and 1st (once removed) of Cyril Cunard (also in the Family Tree). Baptised at York Minster. Her funeral service was held at All Saints' Church, Wraxall, 20 October 1979.

She was Maid of Honour to H.M. Queen Mary 1912-27. In the Great War she was nursing in France for three and a half years, and she holds the Royal Red Cross Decoration. The King and Queen attended her wedding.

Regional Representative, S.W. Region; Red Cross & St. John War Organiser, 1941-47. President Somerset Branch British Red Cross Society, 1945-70.
Patron, Somerset Branch British Red Cross Society from 1970.

OBE (1945), RRC (1919), SSStJ (1920).
Clubs: Ladies Carlton, V.A.D.

She lived at Tyntesfield, Bristol.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Bombay, India
• Departure: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Residence: 1901, Aldrington, Sussex; Age: 8; Relation to Head of House: Grandson
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Hove, Sussex; Age: 18; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Grandson
• Baptism: Oct 1935, Calcutta, India; St Paul's Cathedral
• Arrival: 20 Apr 1936, London
• Residence: 1939, 'Athearye', Cumberland Str, Woodbridge, Suffolk
• Arrival: 26 May 1960, London

Sydney married Enid Ursula Moore in 1930 in Calcutta, Bengal, India. Enid (daughter of Edward James Moore and Helena Crookenden) was born on 9 Aug 1903 in Blackheath, London; died on 13 Feb 2000 in Foxearth Lodge N/Home, Saxtead, Suffolk; was buried on 23 Feb 2000 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Bombay, India
• Departure: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, 20 Lee Terrace, Blackheath, London
• Arrival: 21 May 1934, London
• Departure: 27 Oct 1934, London
• Arrival: 20 Apr 1936, London
• Residence: 1954, Reydon Grove Farm, Southwold, Suffolk
• Arrival: 26 May 1960, London
• Residence: 1962, Reydon Grove Farm, Southwold, Suffolk

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]

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.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 12 Nov 1860, Escrick, Yorkshire
• Residence: 1891, Fulford, Yorkshire; Age: 30; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Residence: 1896-1901, Rhodesia; Adminstrator of Matabeleland
• Residence: 1901-1902, Perth, Australia; Governor of Western Australia
• Residence: 1902-1905, Pretoria, South Africa; Lieutenant-Governor
• Residence: 1906-1911, Madras, India; Governor of Madras

Notes:

Arthur Lawley, 6th Baron Wenlock, GCSI, GCIE, KCMG (12 November 1860 – 14 June 1932), was a British colonial administrator who served variously as Administrator of Matabeleland, Governor of Western Australia, Lieutenant-Governor of the Transvaal, and Governor of Madras. The fourth and youngest son of the 2nd Baron Wenlock, he attended Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, before joining the military. Serving in the Mahdist War, he reached the rank of captain before resigning his commission to pursue other interests. Lawley was then private secretary to his uncle, the 1st Duke of Westminster, and subsequently to the 4th Earl Grey, who he followed to Rhodesia.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Lawley,_6th_Baron_Wenlock

Arthur married Annie Allen Cunard, Baroness Wenlock, GBE on 15 Oct 1885 in Uppingham, Rutland. Annie (daughter of Edward Bart Cunard, 2nd Baronet and Mary Bache McEvers) was born on 21 Jun 1863 in New York, USA; died on 29 Apr 1944 in Bristol, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1891, Fulford, Yorkshire; Age: 27; Relation to Head of House: Wife

Robert married Sarah Helen Girling on 13 Jan 1883 in Patna, Bihār, India. Sarah (daughter of Charles Lester Girling and Marion Jame Tillyard) was born on 13 Nov 1865 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, 20 Lee Terrace, Blackheath, London; Age: 48; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

Edward married Helena Crookenden in 1892. Helena was born in 1866 in Woolwich, Kent; died on 21 Jul 1942 in Spring Cottage, Ufford, Woodbridge, Suffolk. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 28 Dec 1866, St Mary Magdalene, Woolwich, Kent
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, 20 Lee Terrace, Blackheath, London; Age: 44; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife