Joseph Arthur Gibbs

1867 - 1899  (31 years)

• Name	Joseph Arthur Gibbs
  Born	25 Nov 1867	Westminster, London
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	28 Dec 1867	Wraxall, Somerset
  Residence	1871	Edgware, Middlesex
  	Age: 3; Relationship: Son
  Died	13 May 1899	London
  	Effects of an operation
  Buried	18 May 1899	Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
  Person ID	I2590	Gibbs Family Tree
  Last Modified	3 Feb 2022

  
  

  Father	George Louis Monck Gibbs,   b. 28 Apr 1838, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire ,   d. 26 Nov 1881, Elstree, Hertfordshire  (Age 43 years)
  Mother	Laura Beatrice Elton,   b. 29 Mar 1842, Rome, Italy ,   d. 30 Aug 1911, Bourton, Dorset  (Age 69 years)
  Married	5 Jan 1864	East Clevedon, Somerset
  Family ID	F1128	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Baptised 28 December 1867 at Wraxall, Somerset. Educated at Eton College, 1881-6; matric. at Oxford (Christ Church) 1887. Died unmarried in London from the effects of an operation 13th and was buried 18 May 1899 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there. Will proved 13 July 1899. Was in Antony Gibbs & Sons' London and Liverpool offices 1890-92. An original director, 1894-99, of Blyth Greene Jourdain & Co., Ltd., London. Author of A Cotswold Village (1st edition. 1898, 2nd 1899, popular edition. 1909, Travellers's Library edition. 1929) and The improvement of cricket grounds (1895). The former went through more editions to cover a record span of 65 years of printing and publishing by John Murray. J. Arthur Gibbs was born in Westminster in 1867 and educated at Eton and Christ Church College, Oxford. After two years with the family banking firm in London he moved to Ablington Manor in the Coln Valley to live as the squire of a small estate. He was a keen cricketer, playing for Somerset and the MCC and writing 'The Improvement of Cricket Grounds on Economic Princples', as well as enjoying hunting, shooting and fishing. He died in 1899. For further info see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Gibbs_(cricketer)

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 25 Nov 1867 - Westminster, London Baptism - 28 Dec 1867 - Wraxall, Somerset Residence - Age: 3; Relationship: Son - 1871 - Edgware, Middlesex Died - 13 May 1899 - London Buried - 18 May 1899 - Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos		Ablington Manor From where Joseph Arthur wrote "A Cotswold Village"
  		Joseph Arthur Gibbs

  
  

  Documents		1871 England Census - George Louis Monck Gibbs-1.jpeg
  		Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 - Joseph A Gibbs.jpeg

  
  

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  Joseph Arthur Gibbs Headstone