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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Peter David John Medley (son of David John Medley and Ruth Christina Crane).

    Family/Spouse: Andrea Lela Schummer. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Peter David John Medley
    2. Daniel Adam Medley
    3. David Kailen Medley

    Peter married Stephanie Jo Long [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Jennifer Michelle Medley
    2. Jeremy Peter David Medley

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  David John Medley was born on 17 Aug 1919 in London (son of Sir John Dudley Gibbs Medley and Emmeline Mary Newbolt); died on 2 May 2010 in Arizona, USA.

    Notes:

    David, after some years in Australia in Aircraft Engineering, went to work in USA in various roles for Rockwell. His wife Ruth née Crane predeceased him and both his children died a few years later. David served in the Second World War in the R.A.N.V.R as the Radar Officer and was sunk in HMAS Canberra just before the Battle of the Coral Sea, safely rescued luckily by the Americans.

    David married Ruth Christina Crane. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Ruth Christina Crane
    Children:
    1. 1. Peter David John Medley
    2. Christina Anne Medley was born in 1952.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Sir John Dudley Gibbs Medley was born on 19 Apr 1891 in 2 Keble Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire (son of Dudley Julius Medley and Isabel Alice Gibbs); died on 26 Sep 1962 in Harkaway, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Residence: 1901, Cramond, Midlothian, Scotland
    • Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire; Age: 19; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
    • Residence: 1922, South Yarra, Fawkner, Victoria, Australia

    Notes:

    1st son. Baptised 14 May 1891 at St. Giles, Oxford. Educated at Winchester College (scholar) 1904-10; matric at Oxford (scholar of New College) 1910; 1st class Mods. 1912; 1st class Lit. Humaniores 1914. Cremated at Springvale, nr. Melbourne.

    At Winchester was "Prefect of Hall" 1909-10. Elected Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Oct. 1914 but never resided. In the Great War 2nd Lieut. 15 October 1914 in 6th (Glamorgan) Battalion (Territorial) of The Welsh Regiment. Temporary Captain 1915 as a Railway Transport Officer in France. On General Staff in France as A.D.C. to General Sir Tom Bridges (Head Quarters 19th Divn.) Dec. 1915-Nov. 1916. Returned to Ry. Transport Nov. 1916-May 1917. Thereafter in "Grand Quartier General" French Armies in liaison work till Mar. 1919. Temporary Major from September 1918. Medals, 1914 Star, British War medal, Allies (Victory) medal.

    Joined Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, May 1919 and was one of the managers of their Australian Branch, Gibbs Bright & Co. 1920-30 (Melbourne 1920-23, Adelaide 1923-25, Sydney 1925-30). Headmaster of "Tudor House" Preparatory School nr. Mossvale, N.S.W. from 1931-38. Elected Vice-Chancellor, Melbourne University in 1938 from which post he retired in 1951. Knighted 1948.

    A Trustee of the Australian National Gallery from 1941, and Chairman from 1951. Member of the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1942. President of the Australian Council for Educational Research 1948. Portrait by Max Meldrum in the John Medley building, part of the Arts Faculty, University of Melbourne.

    1 son, David John Medley (United States citizen 1967), m. Ruth Crane and has issue. 1 daughter, Diana Mary m. Francis Barrington Hall, Chief of Protocol, Dept. of Foreign Affairs, Canberra (1978) and has issue.

    John married Emmeline Mary Newbolt on 15 Sep 1916 in Southwark Cathedral, Surrey. Emmeline (daughter of Sir Francis George Newbolt and Alice Clara Franck Bright) was born on 5 Aug 1891 in Weybridge, Surrey; died on 4 Mar 1977 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Emmeline Mary Newbolt was born on 5 Aug 1891 in Weybridge, Surrey (daughter of Sir Francis George Newbolt and Alice Clara Franck Bright); died on 4 Mar 1977 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

    Notes:

    She was her husband's third cousin. 2nd daughter of Sir Francis G. Newbolt, Knight, K.C. and Official Referee of the Supreme Court, by Alice Clara Franck (born 1867), 2nd daughter of Rev. Dr. J.F. Bright and sister of E. Gertrude F. Gibbs. Baptised 30 September 1891 at St. Michael's there. Married by her uncle Dr. Hubert Burge, Bishop of Southwark. Cremated at Springdale, Memorial Inscription there.

    Oil portrait with her sister Evelyn by John Cook (1913) last in possession of her father.

    Birth:
    Oakley Lodge

    Children:
    1. 2. David John Medley was born on 17 Aug 1919 in London; died on 2 May 2010 in Arizona, USA.
    2. Diana Mary Medley was born on 17 Mar 1922; died on 22 Oct 2022.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Dudley Julius Medley was born on 31 Mar 1861 in Paddington, London (son of Maj. Gen. Julius George Medley and Adelaide Charlotte Steel); died on 14 Oct 1953 in Newbury, Berkshire; was buried in Oxford, Oxfordshire.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Departure: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    • Occupation: Professor of History, University of Glasgow
    • Baptism: 10 May 1861, St James, Dorset
    • Residence: 1901, Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland
    • Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire; Age in 1911: 50; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Head
    • Arrival: 15 Aug 1929, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    • Arrival: 10 Sep 1929, Southampton, Hampshire
    • Probate Date: 12 Nov 1953, London

    Notes:

    2nd son of Leiutenant General Julius George Medley (1829-1884) (Royal Engineers), by Adelaide (1841-1923), daughter of Colonel James Steele, C.B. Baptised at a church in the parish of Paddington 10 May 1861. Educated at Wellington College 1875-80; matric at Oxford (Keble College) October 1880; 1st Class Modern History and BA 1883; MA 1887; Hon. LL.D Glasgow University 1931. Cremated at Oxford.

    At Wellington was Head of School and Queen's Medallist. History lecturer and tutor of Keble College, Oxford, 1884-99. Professor of History at Glasgow 1899-1931. Sometime Chairman of the Appointments Committee of Glasgow University, a Member of Glasgow School Board, an examiner for the Scottish Education Department, for the Oxford and Cambridge University Examination Board, and for the Civil Service Commissioners. Sometime Honours History Examiner for Oxford, Cambridge, Belfast, Birmingham and Sheffield Universities, now (1932) for Glasgow, Sheffield, and Durham. Member representing Glasgow University in Glasgow Territorial Army and Air Force Association 1908-31. Chairman of the Military Education Committee (Officers' Training Corps) 1909-31. Chairman of Central Organisation Military Education Committee (Senior Divisional O.T.C.) 1923- 31. In the Great War one of the Young Men's Christian Association's lecturers to the Army in France, and (1918-19) sub Director at Trouville, later at Havre, under the Army Scheme of Education: awarded British War medal. Author of A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History published 1894 (6th edition 1925) and other works (see Who's Who 1930). He and his wife lived at Oxford 1890-1900: at Glasgow 1900-31 (45 Lilybank Gardens from 1919). Vacation houses: The Manor House, Mears Ashby, Northants 1908-15; and successively 1915-28 at Bradfield, Greenham, and Highclere, all in Berks, and, from 1928-34, at Hill House, Heckfield, Hants, to which he retired on resigning his Professorship. Thereafter, lived at Ashby, Tydesham, Newbury, until his death.

    Two portraits, both by James Gunn, R.A., the one at Glasgow University, the other now in the possession of his grandson George Medley.

    Birth:
    13 Eastbourne Terrace

    Died:
    Age at Death: 92

    Dudley married Isabel Alice Gibbs. Isabel (daughter of Rev. John Lomax Gibbs and Isabel Marianne Bright) was born on 27 Dec 1862 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset; died on 17 Apr 1942 in Newbury, Berkshire; was buried in Speen, Berkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Isabel Alice Gibbs was born on 27 Dec 1862 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset (daughter of Rev. John Lomax Gibbs and Isabel Marianne Bright); died on 17 Apr 1942 in Newbury, Berkshire; was buried in Speen, Berkshire.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Departure: Quebec, Canada
    • Residence: 1871, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
    • Residence: 1901, Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland
    • Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire; Age in 1911: 48; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Wife
    • Arrival: 10 Sep 1929, Southampton, Hampshire

    Notes:

    2nd daughter of Rev. John Lomax Gibbs. Baptised 29 January 1863 at Wraxall. Buried at Speen. Memorial Inscription there.

    Children:
    1. 4. Sir John Dudley Gibbs Medley was born on 19 Apr 1891 in 2 Keble Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire; died on 26 Sep 1962 in Harkaway, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
    2. Isabel Sybil Charlotte Medley was born on 26 Jun 1892 in Oxford, Oxfordshire; died on 25 Jul 1967 in Hungerford, Berkshire.
    3. Brigadier Edgar Julius Medley, DSO, OBE, MC was born on 16 Dec 1893 in Oxford, Oxfordshire; died on 21 Jun 1972 in Shaftesbury, Dorset.
    4. Bertram Antony Medley was born on 23 Feb 1895 in Oxford, Oxfordshire; died on 25 Sep 1915 in Givenchy, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
    5. Mary Blanche Medley was born on 13 Nov 1896 in Oxford, Oxfordshire; died on 16 Oct 1925 in Rathfarnham, Dublin, Ireland.
    6. Rosalind Evelyn Medley was born in 1899 in Oxford, Oxfordshire; died on 26 Feb 1916 in Queen Anne's School, Caversham, Berkshire.
    7. Captain Ralph Cyril Medley, DSO, OBE was born on 2 Oct 1906 in Burton Seagrave, Northamptonshire; died in 1999 in Chilton House Nursing Home.

  3. 10.  Sir Francis George Newbolt was born in 1863 in Bilston, Staffordshire (son of Rev. Henry Francis Newbolt and Emily Stubbs); died on 5 Dec 1940 in Devon.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Christening: 18 Dec 1863, St. Mary, Bilston, Stafford

    Notes:

    Sir Francis was bom in 1863 and educated at Clifton College and Balliol College Oxford During the 1914-1918 war he was honorary legal adviser to theGovernment on army contracts and was knighted for his services in 1919 He was Chancellor of the Dioceses of Exeter and Bradford and Professoi of Law at the Royal Academy of Arts As an etcher he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and was president of the Art Workers Guild He was Official Referee of the Supreme Court of Judicature until his retirement in 1936 His publications include a novel books on legal subjects art fishing chemistry and a diary of Clifton College
    Lady Newbolt who was a pioneer in work for the children of the poor of London died In 1934

    Francis married Alice Clara Franck Bright in 1889. Alice (daughter of Rev. James Franck Bright and Emmeline Theresa Wickham) was born in 1867 in Marlborough, Staffordshire; died on 2 Dec 1934 in Mattocks, Alyesbeare, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 11.  Alice Clara Franck Bright was born in 1867 in Marlborough, Staffordshire (daughter of Rev. James Franck Bright and Emmeline Theresa Wickham); died on 2 Dec 1934 in Mattocks, Alyesbeare, Devon.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Baptism: 13 Jul 1867, Holmwood, Surrey

    Notes:

    Lady Newbolt was a pioneer in work for the children of the poor of London

    Children:
    1. 5. Emmeline Mary Newbolt was born on 5 Aug 1891 in Weybridge, Surrey; died on 4 Mar 1977 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.


 

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