Eleanor Audrey Gibbs

Giles married Arabella Audrey Snow [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1968-1994, Braishfield Manor, Paynes Hay Road, Romsey

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Educated at Eton 1944-49. Coldstream Guards.

After leaving Eton, joined the Coldstream Guards (Commissioned in 1950). Served for two years in North Africa and England, with a further three years on the Reserve. Attended Westminster Abbey as a Gold Staff Officer for the Coronation 1953 (Coronation Medal).

1951-52 worked at Fortnum and Mason. 1952 joined A. W. Bain Sons & Bevan, Insurance Brokers. 1957— Member London Stock Exchange.

In 1968 purchased Braishfield Manor and in 1977 planted a small vineyard which produced for the first time in 1979. Member of English Vineyards Association. Extensively renovated and enlarged the garden which is open to the public in the summer.

Portrait by Marientrau at Braishfield.
Portrait of family by Hugh Powell at Braishfield.

David married Phyllida Lovaine Plowden in 1959 in Hengrave Hall. Phyllida (daughter of Lieut. Colonel Piers Standish Plowden, OBE and Ethel Muriel Cynthia Critchley) was born in 1936; died on 11 Nov 1999 in Swallowcliffe, Salisbury. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Younger daughter of Lt. Col. Piers Standish Plowden, OBE, Royal Scots Greys, of The Gate House, Braishfield Manor (see Burke's 'Landed Gentry').

Educated at Hengrave Hall.

Before marriage worked for Knight Frank & Rutley in their Sale Room. Sometime charity official for British Red Cross Society and National Assocation of Youth Clubs in Hampshire. Involved with her husband in opening their garden to the public. Entertains and caters for Americans and other overseas visitors for such organisations as Britain without Tears.

Descendent of Edmund Plowden (1517-84) who, when offered the Lord Chancellorship of England by Queen Elizabeth I if he would change his religion, replied:
"Hold me dread Sovereign excused. Your Majesty well knows I find no reason to swerve from the Catholic faith, in which you and I were brought up. I can never therefore countenance the persecution of its professors. I should not have in charge your Majesty's conscience one week before I should incur your displeasure, if it be your Majesty's royal intent to continue the system of persecuting the retainers of the Catholic faith." He kept his head—and his faith. There are only five families listed by Burke who retained Catholicism throughout the ages: Plowden, Howard, Scrope, Tichborne and Weld. Edmund Plowden was responsible for building the Middle Temple Hall.

Portrait with family by Hugh Powell at Braishfield.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Shanghai, China
• Baptism: 22 Jan 1890, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Windsor, Berkshire
• Arrival: 8 Mar 1928, San Francisco, California, USA
• Residence: 1931, St Marylebone, London

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7th son of Antony Gibbs of Tyntesfield. Baptised 22 January 1890 at Wraxall, Somerset. Educated at Eton College 1902-8. Buried at Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire.

2nd Lieut. Somerset Light Infantry 1908; 2nd Lieut. Coldstream Guards December 1910, Lieut. July 1913. Coronation medal of King George V, 1911. In the Great War: Served in France, August 1914 till 1919. Adjutant, 2nd Battalion Coldstream Gds., November 1914-April 1916. Temporary Captain December 1914-July 1915. Captain July 1915. Staff Captain 1st Guards Brigade April-November 1916. Acting Lieut.-Col. in command of 2nd Battn. Coldstream Gds. November 1916-March 1917. Acting Major March-May 1917 and December 1917 to February 1918. General Staff Officer (3rd Grade) Guards Division, February to April 1918. Brigade Major 140th Infantry Brigade April 1918 to February 1919. General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (Intelligence) in British section of the Supreme War Council at Versailles February to June, 1919. Military Cross 1916 and bar 1917. Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, 1918. Mentioned four times in Despatches. Awarded 1914 Star, British War Medal, Allies' (Victory) Medal. After the War Adjutant 3rd Battn. Coldstream Gds. June to November 1919. General Staff Officer, 2nd grade, London District, December 1921 to August 1922. Aide de Camp to Lord Rawlinson, the Commander-in-Chief in India, November 1922 to March 1925, and awarded the North West Frontier Medal and one clasp in the Waziristan campaign. Second in command of 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards when part of the Shanghai Defence Force, 1927-28. Commanded the British troops in Paris for Marshal Foch's Funeral, 1929. Lieut. Colonel December 1930, in command of 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards until 1934. A.A.G. War Office, 1934-38; retired pay 1938; Brigadier i/c Administration, London District 1939-45; reverted to retired pay 1945; recalled War Office in connection with Victory March, January-July 1946; reverted to retired pay 1946. Jubilee Medal 1937. Coronation Medal 1953 Coronation. Gentleman at Arms Her Majesty's Bodyguard.

Portrait by Marientrau, at Braishfield.

Lancelot married Marjory Florence Maxwell on 10 Jul 1929 in Westminster, London. Marjory (daughter of Sir Arthur Kenis Maxwell, Baron Farnham and Aileen Selina Purdon Coote) was born on 24 Apr 1906 in Dublin, Ireland; died on 5 May 1939. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1st Hon. Marjory Florence, 1st daughter of Sir Arthur Kenlis Maxwell, DSO, 11th Baron Farnham of Farnham, County Cavan, Ireland. Baptised in Dublin.
Memorial window at Kilmore Cathedral, Kilmore, Eire.

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He was educated at Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England. He fought in the First World War. He was educated at Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Berkshire, England. He gained the rank of officer in the 17th Lancers. He was Aide-de-Camp to the High Commissioner to Egypt between 1925 and 1928. He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Scots Guards. He fought in the Second World War, where he was mentioned in despatches. He was appointed Officer, Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) in 1944.

Piers married Ethel Muriel Cynthia Critchley on 28 Jun 1928. Ethel (daughter of Major Edward Ashton Critchley) was born on 18 Oct 1899; died in 1987 in Romsey, Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]