Honor May Gibbs

Andrew married Alexandra Wilson [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Sandhurst, Berkshire
• Residence: 1628 32nd Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., USA
• Arrival: 7 Jul 1940, New York, USA
• Arrival: 12 Jul 1955, Southampton, Hampshire
• Occupation: 1960, Washington City, District of Columbia, USA; Executive with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• Arrival: 23 Apr 1961, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA

Notes:

Served with 9th Queen's Royal Lancers 1948-56.
British Joint Services Mission, Washington D.C. 1953-54; with International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Washington D.C. USA from 1960.
Club: Turf

Nicholas married Hon. Elizabeth Beatrice Baring [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Destination: Kilindini, Mombasa, Coast, Kenya
• Residence: 1901, Down Ampney, Gloucestershire; Age: 8; Relation: Son
• Departure: 4 Mar 1921, London
• Arrival: 18 Feb 1923, New York, USA
• Arrival: 19 Apr 1923, Southampton, Hampshire
• Arrival: 23 Sep 1923, New York, USA
• Residence: 1926-1927, 41 York Terrace, St. Marylebone, London
• Residence: From 1928, Thornhill House, Kington Lisle, Berkshire
• Death: 25 Dec 1940, Brighton, Sussex

Notes:

7th son of Henry Martin Gibbs of Barrow Court. Baptised 26 February 1893 at Barrow Gurney. Educated at Eton College, 1906-12; matric. Oxford (Christ Church) October 1912.

Master of the Beagles at Eton in 1912 and at Christ Ch. Oxford, 1913. 2nd Lieut., North Somerset Yeomanry (Territ.) November 1912; Lieut. 1917; retired 1919. In the Great War served in France and Belgium October 1914 to May 1915; lost his left arm as the result of wound suffered at Ypres on 13 May 1915; Aide-de-Camp May to November 1918 to Major General Gorringe commanding 47th Divn. in France. Despatches 14 January 1915. 1914 Star. British War medal. Allies (Victory) medal.

Farming in Kenya from 1920 to 1929. Founded Kenya Coffee Co. in London 1921. A Trustee of St. Michael's Home in Cheddar. Portrait: min. by Gertrude Thomson last in possession of Rothesay Timothy Gibbs.

Lionel married Mary Charlesworth on 1 Jul 1925, and was divorced in 1932. Mary (daughter of Albany Hawke Charlesworth and Eleanor Charlotte Bayley) was born in Jan 1904 in Park Steet, Westminster, London; died in Dec 1962 in Staincross, Yorkshire West Riding. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Brockhurst, W. Didsbury, South Manchester, Lancashire

Notes:

2nd daughter of Albany Hawke Charlesworth (born 1854) of Grinton, co. York, JP for whom see Burke's 'Landed Gentry', by Eleanor Charlotte, 2nd daughter of Kennett Bayley of Sevenoaks, Inchicore, Dublin.

Divorce obtained by her husband 1932, when she married 2ndly 23 June, Arthur James.

Portrait: oil by Flora Lion 1924; head in pastel by E. Verpilleur (1924); both last in her mother's possession.

Notes:

Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale KG GCMG KCVO (29 September 1903 – 10 March 1973), was Governor of Southern Rhodesia from 1942 to 1944, High Commissioner for Southern Africa from 1944 to 1951, and Governor of Kenya from 1952 to 1959.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Baring,_1st_Baron_Howick_of_Glendale

Evelyn married Lady Mary Cecil Grey on 24 Apr 1935 in Alnwick, Northumberland. Mary (daughter of Charles Robert Grey, 5th Earl Grey and Lady Mabel Laura Georgiana Palmer) was born on 5 May 1907 in St George Hanover Square, London; died on 21 Mar 2002 in Alnwick, Northumberland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]