Theresa Caroline Mott-Radclyffe

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Educated at Downham School. Married 4 April 1964, divorce obtained 1974.

1 son and 1 daughter: Thomas Julian Radclyffe born 6 March 1969; Diana Catherine born 12 February 1967.

Theresa married Juilen Courtauld [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Diana Catherine Courtauld
2. Thomas Julian Radclyffe Courtauld

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late Rifle Brigade, RARO of Barningham Hall, Norfolk. Son of Lt. Col. Charles Edwrad Radclyffe, DSO, Rifle Brigade (see Burke's 'Landed Gentry'). Educated at Eton, Balliol College, Oxford.

Married 2ndly 26 September 1956 Stella Constance, eldest daughter of Lionel George Evenson Harisson of Caynham, Ludlow, Salop, see Burke's 'Landed Gentry' and Curtiss Baronet, 'Burke's Peerage').

D.L. 1976. Hon. Attache Diplomatic Service, Athens and Rome, 1936-38. Member Military Mission to Greece, 1940-41; served as Liaison Officer in Syria, 1941 and with Rifle Brigade in Middle East and Italy, 1943-44. M.P. (Conservative) Windsor 1942-1970; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Secretary of State for India (Rt. Hon. L. S. Amery), Dec. 1944-May 1945; Junior Lord of the Treasury, May-July 1945; Conservative Whip Aug. 1945- February 1946; Chairman Conservative Party. Foreign Affairs Committee 1951-59; Member Plowden Committee on Overseas Representational Services 1963-64.

A Governor of Gresham's School, Holt; Member Historic Buildings Council for England, 1962-70; President Country Landowners Association (Norfolk Branch since 1972; Norfolk C.C.C., 1972-74. High Sheriff of Norfolk 1974. Commander Order of Phoenix (Greece). Publications: Foreign Body in the Eye (a memoir of the Foreign Service), 1975.

Recreations: cricket and shooting.

Clubs: Turf, Bucks, Pratt's, M.C.C.

Charled married Diana Anstice Williamina Gibbs on 15 Jun 1940. Diana (daughter of Lieut. Colonel William Gibbs, CVO and Ruby Mabel Brassey) was born on 14 Apr 1914 in 41 Eaton Place, Westminster, London; died on 15 Jun 1955. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 18 May 1914, St Paul's, Westminster, London

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1st daughter. Baptised 18 May 1914 at St. Paul's Knightsbridge, Westminster.

Oil portrait by Melton Fisher, R.A. in possession of her daughter Theresa Caroline Mott-Radclyffe; portrait by Richard Marientrau (1952) in possession of her husband Major Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 21 Dec 1877, Paddington, London
• Residence: 1881, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, Wraxall, Somerset

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7th Hussars. 3rd son of Antony Gibbs of Tyntesfield. Baptised at St. Michael's, Paddington. Educated at Eton College 1891-6; matric. Oxford (Magdalen College) 1896; 3rd class law and BA 1899.

2nd Lieut. 7th Hussars, February, and Lieut., November 1900. In the South African (Boer) War, served 1901-2 with 7th Hussars in operations in Cape Colony, Orange River Colony and Transvaal; awarded Queen's Medal, with five clasps. Captain, Ap. 1907. Seconded to be Brigade Major of Eastern Mounted Brigade (Territorial) March 1913-March 1916. In the Great War, served in Gallipoli (Anzac) October-December 1915: in Egypt December 1915-October 1916 (Staff Officer, Western Defence Force; Brigade Major, Coastal Area): in France, October-December 1917, as Major, 12th Battalion Yorkshire Regt.; in Mesopotamia Ap. 1918-Ap. 1919 with 7th Hussars and in command of them from September 1918. Wounded at Shergat, nr. Mosul, 28 October 1918. Awarded 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Allies' (Victory) War Medal: Croix de Guerre (avec palme): mentioned twice in despatches (1916 and 1919). Lieut.-Colonel 1919, and in the Regular Army Reserve of Officers from 1920. One of the Exons of the King's Bodyguard of Yeomen of the Guard from 1926.

Portrait: In Yeoman of the Guard's Uniform last in possn. of his wife Ruby Mable Brassey.

Birth:
16 Hyde Park Gardens

Died:
Severalls

William married Ruby Mabel Brassey on 22 Jul 1911 in Knightsbridge, London. Ruby (daughter of Henry Arthur Brassey and Anna Harriet Stevenson) was born on 10 Oct 1887 in Preston Hall, Kent; died on 30 Jun 1981. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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7th and youngest daughter of Henry Arthur Brassey of Preston Hall, Kent, MP, by Anna Harriet, daughter of Major George Robert Stevenson of Tongswood, Hawkhurst, Kent. Baptised at Aylesford.

Other Events and Attributes:

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

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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:

• Baptism: 29 Sep 1840, Fareham, Hampshire

Henry married Anna Harriet Stevenson on 24 Jun 1866 in Chelsea Holy Trinity, London. Anna (daughter of Major George Robert Stevenson and Anna Maria Denham Cookes) was born in 1846 in Tongswood by Hawkhurst, Kent; died on 15 Jul 1898. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]