Louisa Anne Adams

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1818, Brompton, Middlesex
• Residence: 1851, Hampstead, London
• Residence: 1861, St Marylebone, London
• Residence: 1871, St Marylebone, London
• Residence: 1891, London

Notes:

Louisa Anne, Lady Aldenham, 3rd daughter of William Adams of Thorpe, Surrey. L.L.D (1772-1851), life in the 'Dictionary of National Biography', and sister of George E. Cokayne (born Adams) by the Hon. Mary Anne, daughter and coheir of Hon. William Cokayne of Rushton Hall, Northants, who was brother of the 6th and last Viscount Collen. See Cullen of Ashbourne in 'Burke's Peerage', 1930. Born in Southampton Row, Holborn, 10 September and baptised 9 November 1818 at St. George's, Hart Street, Holborn. Married at Thorpe 6 May 1845 (licensed), died at St. Dunstan's, Regents Park, London 17th and, and was buried 21 April 1897, at Aldenham. Administration February 1898.

Portraits: Chalk (with her son Kenneth) by E.U. Eddis (1859) was (1931) in possession of her son Vicary. Oil by the same (1859) with daughter Edith and son Kenneth in possession of her grandson Andrew Antony; drawing by the same (1860) with sons Vicary and Herbert was in possession of her son Alban (1932).

For her 'Royal Descents' see Burke's 'Royal Descents' (1858) under Adams & under Gibbs; 'Cockayne Meoranda' by Andreas Cockayne (2nd series 1873) and Ellacombe's Clyst St. George (1862).

Louisa married Henry Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham on 6 May 1845 in Thorpe, Surrey. Henry (son of George Henry Gibbs and Caroline Crawley) was born on 31 Aug 1819 in Powis Place, St. George the Martyr, London, England; died on 13 Sep 1907 in Aldenham House, Aldenham, Hertfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Southampton, Hampshire
• Baptism: 18 Oct 1846, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1851, Hampstead, London
• Residence: 1861, St Marylebone, London; Residence Age: 14; Relationship: Son
• Residence: 1871, London
• Residence: 1881, London
• Residence: 1901, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Residence: 1925, England
• Departure: 29 Aug 1925, Southampton, Hampshire
• Arrival: 4 Sep 1925, New York, USA

Notes:

1st son, 2nd Lord Aldenham (1907) of Aldenham and Clifton Hampden. Born at Naples 23 and baptised there privately by Embassy Chaplain 25 April and received into the Church 18 October 1846 at Clifton Hampden. Educated at Eton College 1860-1: matric at Oxford (Christ Church) 1865, B.A. 1870, M.A. 1881. Died 9 May 1936.

He succeeded to the estate of Clifton Hampden (Oxon. & Berks) and to the lordship of the manor of Clifton Hampden by gift from his father in 1902. The Vicarage there became his Manor House in 1905 & he enlarged it. He built new cottages in Clifton Hampden and added to his lands, which in 1927 consisted of the whole of Clifton Hampden & extended into Burcot, Toot Baldon, Dorchester, and Long Wittenham, in all about 1780 ac. On his father's death in 1907 the life tenancy of the Aldenham estates passed to him, comprising at that date 3,060 ac. in Herts and 106 in Middlesex. Patron of the Livings of Aldenham (from 1907) and Clifton Hampden (from 1905).

He entered Antony Gibbs & Sons 1870, partner from 1873, head from 1907. During his headship the firm opened a Branch in N. York (1913). Visited Australia 1881-2 when the firm entered into business there. Director of the Guardian Assurance Co. from 1871; the Universal Marine Insce. Co. 1875-87; the Bank of Australasia from 1887; and director of other public Cos. In the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths (livery 1897, assistant 1900, prime warden 1908-9) and also in the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers (master).

Contested Abingdon for Parliament 1880. Followed his father as M.P. (Conservative) for the City of London, 8 July 1892. In 1904 he and his brother Vicary vacated their seats (under an Act of George III) owing to the fact that as partners in A. Gibbs & Sons they had contracted with our Government to sell them Chilean Warships. He was at once re-elected by the City. Elected again by the City in 1906 for the new Parliament, he retired in favour of the Right Hon. Arthur Alfour (ex-premier). President of the London Institution 1906-13. Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute. President of the City of London Conservative Association from 1908. Commissioner of Lieutenancy for the City of London from 1892: Commissioner of income and land tax for the same from 1892. A Governor of Aldenham School of income and land tax for the same from 1892. A Governor of Aldenham school 1907-13. Sometime Treasurer of the National Society and later Treasurer of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, the Royal School for Deaf and Dumb children at Margate, the Colonial Bishoprics' Fund, and the Additional Curates Society.

As a Freemason, was Grand Warden of England in Craft Masonry, Deputy Grand Mark Master of English, and the Provincial Grand Mark Master of Kent. Member of the Roxburgh Club (vice-president 1911, president in succession to Lord Rosebery from 1929) to which he contributed the 'Life of St. Katherine' edited by his father (1884), and (in 1908) by his father's wishes 'The Mirrour of the Lyf. of Jesu Christ'. Member of the Club 'Nobody's Friends', from 1875 (president from 1913). Among other Clubs, sometime member of the Athenaeum, the Carlton, the City Carlton from 1891 (Chairman 1908-26, President from 1930, Trustee for the Club and its Debenture holders over many years), the City of London from 1869 (Chairman 1891-4; Trustee from 1907). Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

He printed, 1914, 'Catalogue of the Aldenham Library' by Helen Budd, being a revision of the catalogues printed by his father. Editor of a booklet of 'Extracts from the diary of G.H. Gibbs' being a reprint from the Gt. Western Railway Magazine of 1909-10.

Residences: 13 Park Square, Marylebone, 1875-8; 82 Portland Pace, 1878-1907; 37 Portland Place from 1907; the Manor House, Clifton Hampden from 1905; in Scotland The Dell, Rothemurchus, 1883-9; Invergeldie, Comrie, 1890-5.

Portraits: One by H. Herkomer, a miniature by Angelo Tricca of Florence, 1858, a chalk drawing (aged 13) with his father by E.U. Eddis and another by W.E. Miller, all 4 in his own possession. Portrait by Lady Cokayne, 1922, in possession of A. Gibbs and Sons.

Alban married Bridget Beresford-Hope on 18 Feb 1873 in Kilndown, Kent. Bridget (daughter of The Right Honourable Alexander James Beresford-Hope and Lady Mildred Arabella Charlotte Henrietta Gascoyne-Cecil) was born on 19 Feb 1853 in Bedgebury Park, Kent; died on 27 Feb 1896 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal; was buried in 1896 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Residence: Shenley, Hertfordshire
• Baptism: 23 Jun 1854, St John's, Hampstead
• Residence: 1861, St Marylebone, London
• Residence: 1871, Hampshire
• Residence: 1891, London
• Residence: 1901, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 56; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Arrival: 17 Dec 1921, Southampton, Hampshire

Notes:

4th son of Henry Hucks (Gibbs) Lord Aldenham, of Briggens, Herts. Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon (created 1923). born at Frognall in Hampstead, London and baptised 23 June 1854 at St. John's Hampstead. Educated at Winchester College, 1868-71. Matric. Cambridge (Trinity College) 1873; B.A. 1877, M.A. 1884. Died 22 May 1935 at Briggens and was buried 25 May 1935 at St. Dunstan's, Hunsdon.

After a course of training (1877-9) in the offices of Wallace Bros. London; Ventura Marco del Pont, Paris; Gibbs Bright & Co., Liverpool; and Henry Bath & Son, Swansea; he joined Antony Gibbs & Sons 1879; was with their Chilean Branch, Gibbs & Co., 1880-1, and a manager thereof 1881: a manager of the London firm 1881 and a partner thereof from 1882. Original Chairman of the Alianza (Nitrate) Co. Ld., 1895-1928, and of the Pan de Azucar Nitrate Co., Ld., 1901-26; Director of the Rio de Janeiro City Improvements Co. Ld. from 1884 and Chairman from 1905: Director of the Australian Mutual Provdent Soc. from 1908: and sometime Director of other public companies. Chairman of the City of London Conservative Association Sep. 1912 to 1932. On the Public Works Loan Board from July 1884 (dep. Chairman 1908-21, Chairman from 1921). Justice of the Peace for Herts, from 1916. High Sheriff of Herts. for 1913. He was a member of the Deputation sent by the British Government to Russia in the winter of 1912-13 to return the visit of the Duma to England. In the Great War he was director of Purchases of Nitrate of Soda for the Allies (see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs p.389). Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (?1918). Created Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon 24 July 1923. First speech in the House of Lords 7 July 1924, the subject being 'Trade and Unemployment'. Chairman of the City of London Club 1928-31; Member of the Carlton Club, Pall Mall, from 1910. Author of 'History of Gibbs of Fenton' in Dartington (1925), 'The Parish Registers of Hunsdon (1915)', several pamphlets on Bimetallism and the Currency, 1894-5, including 'A Bimetallic Primer' 1894 (rd ed. 1896), and one on 'The Incidence of Income Tax and Wasting Securities (1904)'. His evidence on 'Wasting Assets Abroad' before the Royal Comn. on Income Tax of 1920 is in an appendix to their Report.

He bought Biggens in the parish of Hunsdon and the lordship of the Manor of Hunsdon in 1908. His successive London residences from 1885 were 34 York Terrace, 17 Portman Street, 9 Portman Square (1898-1923), all in St. Marylebone.

Portraits: Drawing by W.E. Miller, 1882, another by E.U. Eddis in a group with his mother and brother Vicary, 1860, both in possession of Lord Aldenham. Oil, three quarter length, 1891, by W. Ouless, R.A., at Briggens (copy by Miss Richardson in possession of A.Gibbs & Sons). Crayon by John Hay, presentation from City of London Conservative Association, 1932, in possession of Antony D. Gibbs, 5th Lord Aldenham.

Herbert married Anna Maria Durant, Lady Hunsdon on 12 Feb 1885 in Shenley, Hertfordshire. Anna (daughter of Richard Durant and Charlotte Still Dashwood) was born on 8 May 1862 in High Canons; died on 30 Dec 1938 in Ware, Hertfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 May 1856, St John's, Hampstead
• Residence: 1861, St Marylebone, London
• Occupation: 1881, London; Assistant Curate St Andrews Parish
• Residence: 1881, London
• Residence: 1891, Aldenham, Hertfordshire
• Residence: 1901, Aldenham, Hertfordshire
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Aldenham, Hertfordshire; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Probate: 12 Apr 1935, London; To Raymond Kenneth Gibbs & Bernard Vicary Gibbs ( his sons)

Notes:

The Ven. Archdeacon the Hon. Kenneth Francis Gibbs (5th son of Henry Hucks (Gibbs), Lord Aldenham. D.D., Archdeacon of St. Albans. Born at Frognal aforesaid, 2 April and baptised 11 May 1856 at St. John's Hampstead. Educated at Winchester College 1870-4. Matric: Oxford (Christ Church) 15 January 1875; 4th class Theology and B.A. 1878: MA 1881; D.D. (Lambeth) 1929. Student at Leeds Clergy school, 1878-80. Died 1st February 1935 and was buried at Aldenham on 4 February 1935.

Ordained deacon 1880; priest (London) 1881. Curate of St. Andrews, Wells St., St. Marylebone, 1880-4; Vicar of Aldenham 1884-1913 (presented by his father); Rural Dean of Watford 1898-1909; Hon. Canon of St. Albans 1900-09; Chaplain to the Bishop of St. Albans 1904-09; Archdeacon of St. Albans from 1909-33; Chaplain to The King from 1921. Prolocutor of the Lower House of Canterbury Convocation 1925-32; Vice-chairman of the House of Clergy of The National Assembly 1925-29, Chairman 1929-32. Degree of Doctor of Divinity conferred by the Archbishop at Lambeth Palace No. 1929. Attached as Chaplain to Herts. Yeomanry (Territorial) 1914-21. Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, 1906-1922. Member of 'Nobody's Friends' from 1893; of Aldenham Club 1989-1921. Editor of 'The Parish Registers of Aldenham' (2 vols. 1902 and 1910). Living from 1913 until his death at The Old Rectory, Hatfield, Herts.

Portraits: Drawing by W.E.Miller and oil in a group by E.U. Eddis (1859) with his mother and sister; oil by R.G. Eves, RA and oil sketch b same artist, all in possession of his son Andrew Antony. Oil by R.G.Eves, RA (presentation portrait) in possession of his son Bernard Vicary. Another oil sketch by same artist in possession of his son Raymond Kenneth. Chalk sketch with his mother by E.U. Eddis now in possession of his daughter Dorothea Lady Goodenough, together with a pencil sketch and oil sketch by Eves.

Birth:
Frognall

Kenneth married Mabel Alice Barnett on 5 Jun 1894 in Aldenham, Hertfordshire. Mabel (daughter of Charles Edward Barnett and Augusta Rose Walsh) was born on 6 Sep 1874 in 1 Eaton Terrace, Westminster, London; died on 20 Mar 1953 in Witney, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 7 Sep 1861, St Marylebone, London
• Residence: 1871, London; Age: 9; Relationship: Son

Notes:

6th son of Henry Hucks (Gibbs), Lord Aldenham. Baptised 7 September 1861 at St. Marylebone Church. Educated privately; matric. Oxford (Christ Church) 21 May 1880. Buried 18 September 1907 at Aldenham. Will dated 24 January 1903, proved 30 October 1907.

Entered Antony Gibbs & Sons 1889, partner in that firm 1890-1907 and was with their Australian Branch, Gibbs Bright & Co., 1893-5 and 1903. Director of The London Assurance, 1883-97, of the Grand Junction Canal Co. 1883-9, of the East Argentine Railway Co. Ld. 1884-8, of the Argentine North Eastern Railway Co. Ld. 1889-1907, and of The Sulphine Corporation Ld. (from its inception) 1895-1907. A Commissioner of Lieutenancy for the City of London. Residences: 10 Lennox Gardens, Chelsea, 1888-1907; The Manor House, Elstree, 1896-1907.

Portraits: drawing (1865) by E. U. Eddis, and pastel (1883) by W.E. Miller, last in possession of Anthea H. Lowes.

Birth:
St. Dunstan's, Regent's Park,

Died:
The Manor House

Henry married The Hon. Alice Mary Crutchley on 17 Aug 1887 in Sunninghill, Berkshire. Alice (daughter of Charles Crutchley, General and Elizabeth Bayfield) was born on 21 Jun 1860 in Chelsea, London; died on 5 Oct 1942 in Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 18 Feb 1879, St Marylebone, London; All Souls, Langham Place
• 1881 Census: 1881, Marylebone, London; Age: 2; Relation to Head of House: Son
• 1891 Census: 1891, Aldenham, Hertfordshire; Age: 12; Relation to Head of House: Nephew
• 1901 Census: 1901, Wargrave, Berkshire; Age: 22; Relation to Head of House: Visitor
• Departure: 1905, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Arrival: 15 Apr 1905, Southampton, Hampshire; Age: 26
• 1911 Census: 2 Apr 1911, Paddington, London; Age: 32; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

Only son. 3rd Lord Aldenham (1936). Born at 82 Portland Place., St. Marylebone, London, 9 January and baptised 18 February 1879 at All Souls, Langham Place, in that Borough. Educated Eton College 1893-4. Matric. at Oxford (Christ Church) 1897, B.A. 1901. Died childless 21 March 1939.

Entered Antony Gibbs & Sons 1903, partner from 1908; was with Gibbs Bright & Co. in Australia 1902-3, with Gibbs & Co. in Chile 1904-5. A director of The London Assurance Corporation from 1908, & of Ruislip Manor Ld. from 1910. In the Great War a member (1915-19) of Headquarters Central Detachment of Metropolitan Special Constabulary, London (Special constabulary medal). As a Freemason: Junior Grand Warden of England in Mark masonry 1911-12; Senior Grand Deacon of England in Craft Masonry 1931; Member of 'Nobody's Friends' from 1916, of the Carlton Club from 1908. On the Council of St. Peter's Home, Kilburn. A Trustee of St. Michael's Home, Cheddar. He and his wife lived from 1905 at 41 Connaught Sq., Paddington.

Portraits: One by T.C. Gotch 1888. One by C. Vigor 1886. Drawing by W. E. Miller. All 3 in possession of Lord Aldenham.

Gerald married Lillie Caroline Houldsworth on 9 May 1905 in St Andrew's, Wells St, St Marylebone, London. Lillie (daughter of William Thomas Houldsworth, Rev. and Eulalie Venables) was born on 30 Oct 1877 in London; died on 1 Sep 1950 in Oxford, Oxfordshire; was buried in Sep 1950 in St Michael's Churchyard, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 8 May 1886, Aldenham, Hertfordshire; Parish Church
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 25; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter

Notes:

1st daughter of Herbert Cokayne (Gibbs) Lord Hunsdon. Baptised 8 may 1886 at Aldenham.

Justice of the Peace, 1942-51. A director of Southover Manor School, Lewes. She and her husband lived from 1925-1939 at Cobbe Place, Beddingham, Sussex, and from 1940-1976 at Woodleys, Woodstock, Oxon.

Winifred married Sir Charles Edward Ponsonby, TD on 23 Jul 1912 in Hunsdon, Hertfordshire. Charles (son of Edwin Charles William Ponsonby, Hon and Emily Dora Coope, son of Emily Dora Ponsonby) was born on 2 Sep 1879 in Grosvenor Street, Westminster, London; died on 28 Jan 1976 in England; was buried in Wootton, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Iquique, Tarapaca, Chile
• Baptism: 8 Sep 1888, Aldenham, Hertfordshire
• Residence: 1891, London
• Residence: 1901, Eton, Buckinghamshire
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 22; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Arrival: 25 Aug 1920, New York, USA

Notes:

2nd Baron Hunsdon (1935) and 4th Baron Aldenham (1939). Born at High Canons aforesaid 11 August and baptised 8 September 1888 at Aldenham. Educated at Eton College 1901-7; matric. Cambridge (Trinity College) 1907; 2nd class History and B.A. 1910. Died at Harlow Hospital, 30 May 1969 and was cremated and ashes buried at St. Dunstan's, Hunsdon.

He was in the Eton School Football XI 1906. Won Royal Tennis, single and doubles, Cambridge v. Oxford 1910. Joined Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, 1910, and was with their Australian branch, Gibbs, Bright & Co., 1912-14. After the Great War rejoined the London firm 1919; partner thereof from 1920. Director of, amongst other Companies, Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ld., from 1921 (Chairman 1928-29), Australian Pastoral Co. Ld. from 1922 (Chairman from 1929), Westminster Bank Ld. from 1924, English Scottish and Australian Bank, Ld., from 1920. On the Livery of the Merchant Taylors Company from 1910, on the Court from 1923, Master 1932.

2nd Lieut. Hertfordshire Yeomanry (Territ) Feb. 1911-15; temp. Lieut. July, 1915, Capt., Dec., 1916. In the Great War; mobilised with the Herts. Yeomanry in August 1914 he served with them in Egypt Sep. 1914 to Aug. 1915, in Gallipoli August to October 1915 and in Palestine June 1916 to April 1917 and to XXI Corps Staff Intelligence there December 1917-January 1918. Served with the 'Dunster Force' in Mesopotamia and Persia January 1918 to January 1919 and with Herts. Yeomanry in Asia Minor January to April 1919. Mentioned twice in Despatches (1917 and 1918). Medals, 1914-15 Star, British war medal and Allies (Victory) medal.

Deputy Chairman Westminster Bank, 1st January 1933; Chairman of Bank 1st April 1950; resigned from Chairmanship 31 December 1961 but remained on Board, President, British Association of Bankers 1954-55.

Portrait in oils, painted by Simon Elwes, soon after becoming Chariman, in possession of Westminster Bank, Lothbury, EC2.

Walter married Beatrix Elinor Paul on 6 Nov 1919 in St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, London. Beatrix (daughter of Herbert Woodfield Paul and Elinor Budworth Ritchie) was born on 28 Jul 1890 in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London; died on 17 Jul 1978 in St Dunstan's, Hunsdon; was buried in St Dunstan's, Hunsdon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: London
• Baptism: 1 Sep 1901, Camfield, Hatfield, Herts
• Admission: 18 Apr 1923

Notes:

2nd son of Herbert Cokayne Gibbs, Lord Hunsdon. Baptised 1 September 1901 at St. Mark's, Hatfield. Educated at Eton College 1914-19, Matric. Oxford (Christ Church) 1919 and resided to 1922. Died 6 July 1975 and was buried at St. Michael & All Angels, Clifton Hampden, Oxon.

C.M.G. 1945; K.C.M.G. 1955, Hon. D.C.L. Oxford. Lived at Holwell Manor, Hatfield, Hertfordshire from 1932-49. Inherited Clifton Hampden Estate and lived there 1949-75; Patron of the Living, Church Warden, Chairman Parish Council.

Entered Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, 1923; was with Gibbs Bright & Co. in Australia 1924-29; Partner of the Australian firm from 1929 and of Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, 1932 (Chairman 1966-72).

Chairman of The Bank of Australia 1945-51 and The Australia & New Zealand Bank Ltd. 1951-67; Director, Barclays Bank D.C.O. (now Barclays Bank International) 1945-71 (Vice-Chairman 1948, Deputy Chairman 1955).

Other directorships include: The Sulphide Corporation from 1929; London Board of Australian Mutual Provident Society 1935 (Chairman 1958-72); The Union Discount Co. of London Ltd. (Director 1945-72); Oxford University Chest.

Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Economic Warfare 1943-45, Chairman of the Advisory Council, Export Credit Guarantee Department 1948-62. Member of the Council of The Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses 1952-73. Chairman of The Nuffield Foundation 1951-73. Chairman Morris Garages 1961-75. Chairman of the Imperial Relations Trust 1952-73.

He had several other directorships and was connected with many charities. Grocers Company: on the Livery 1929; on the Court 1932; Master 1938.

Clubs: Brooke's, Pratt's, Beefsteak; Melbourne: Union (Sidney); Queenslad.

Portrait: Oil by Allan Gwynne Jones (1968) at Nuffield Lodge, Regents Park.

Geoffrey married Helen Margaret Leslie, CBE on 6 Oct 1926 in St Marys, Hertingfordbury, UK. Helen (daughter of Charles Frederick Henry Leslie and Maud Foster) was born on 7 Jun 1905 in Alexander Square, Kensington, London; died on 28 Dec 1979 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire; was buried on 2 Jan 1980 in St. Michael & All Angels, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• Departure: Limon, Costa Rica
• Departure: Beira, Sofala, Mozambique
• Departure: Brazil
• Occupation: Governor of Southern Rhodesia from 28th December 1959 until 24th June 1969
• Baptism: 13 Jan 1903, St Thomas', Portman Sq, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 8; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Arrival: 25 Mar 1924, Plymouth, Devon
• Arrival: 29 Apr 1927, Liverpool, Lancashire
• Arrival: 27 Aug 1934, Southampton, Hampshire
• Arrival: 16 Sep 1954, London
• Arrival: 24 Jul 1959, Southampton, Hampshire

Notes:

3rd son of Herbert Cokayne Gibbs, Lord Hunsdon. Baptised 13 January 1903 at St. Thomas's, Portman Square. Educated at Eton College, 1915-21, matric. Cambridge (Trinity College) 1921.

P.C. (1969), G.C.V.O. (1969); K.C.V.O. (1965); K.C.M.G. (1960); O.B.E. (1959); Governor of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) 1957-1969; Hon. L.L.D., Birmingham 1969; Hon. D.C.L. East Anglia, 1969.

Farming in Rhodesia, near Bulawayo, since 1928. Founder Member and later Chairman of the Natural Resources Board; Founder Member of the Rhodesia National Farmers Union which encouraged Rhodesian farmers to produce more food for Britain in the Second World War. Member of Parliament (United Party) 1947-53; Chairman of the United Party for many years. One of the two originators of the Central African Trade Fair (later the Rhodesian Trade Fair).

Governor of Southern Rhodesia 1959; last Governor General (Acting) of the Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland. In 1965 after the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, Ian Smith, announced the 'Unilateral Declaration of Independence,' he remained at Government House for 4 years. In 1969 he was allowed to leave after a Referendum in Rhodesia which resulted in the declaration of a Republic.

Member of the Board of Barclays Bank for many years (except during his Governorship) until his retirement in 1978. Member of Wankie Colliery Board; Commercial Union Board, Premier Portland Cement Board and Gibbs & Co.

Active in the establishment and continuation of Private Schools, both Junior and Senior, Chairman of Ruzawi Board of Governors.

Knight Commander of the Order of St. John since 1963; Member of the Council for the Blind.

Clubs: Athenaeum' Bulawayo (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe); Salisbury (Salisbury, Zimbabwe).


More information about Humphrey Gibbs at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Gibbs

Humphrey married Dame Molly Peel Nelson, DBE on 17 Jan 1934 in Bulawayo, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe. Molly (daughter of John Peel Nelson and Ruth Annie Parlett) was born on 13 Jul 1912 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa; died on 20 Jan 1997 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Wellington, New Zealand
• Baptism: 7 Nov 1897, Aldenham, Hertfordshire
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Aldenham, Hertfordshire; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
• Arrival: 25 Mar 1958, London

Notes:

1st daughter of Archdeacon Kenneth F. Gibbs. Baptised at Aldenham 7 November 1897.

In the Great War served in the Voluntary Aid Detachment of the British Red Cross Society. Justice of the Peace 1942-45. WVS Centre Organiser 1939-45. Commissioner of Girl Guides for Oxfordshire 1942-48. Was actively involved in village and local affairs, principally the church and the Over Sixties Club. Hobbies: gardening and needlework.

Portrait: by de Gleyn at Filkins.

Birth:
Vicarage

Dorothea married Sir William Macnamara Goodenough, Baronet, DL, JP on 15 May 1924 in Aldenham, Hertfordshire. William (son of Baronet Frederick Crawford Goodenough and Maive Macnamara) was born on 10 Mar 1899 in Fulham, London; died on 23 May 1951 in Witney, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 27 Oct 1901, Aldenham, Hertfordshire

Notes:

3rd son. Baptised 27 October 1901 at Aldenham. Educated at Winchester College 1914-20. Matric: Oxford (Christ Church) 1920.

2nd Lieut. Herts. Regiment (Territorial) May 1923; Lieut. May 1925. Left Regiment and joined Reserve of Officers (TA), Reg. list Class 1, August 1926. In Barclays Bank, Ltd. from 1924; London 1924; Cambridge 1925; Birmingham from July 1927. Local junior Director Birmingham 1931-1934. Local Director Leicester 1935; Local Director Nottingham 1950 in addition to Leicester, and subsequently Sheffield, the whole ultimately being amalgamated under Nottingham, where he was Senior Local Director until retirement in 1961.

In Second World War he was called up from the Reserve of Officers (TA) as Captain. Staff Capt. to 162 inf. Bde; Passed Staff College War Court 1939. Temp. Major 1941, DAAG. War Office. Lt. Col. 1944, GSO. 1 SHAEF.

A member of 'Nobody's Friends' from 1954. Lived at The Old Rectory, Teigh, Oakland, Rutland and from 1973 at The Manor House, Yatton Keynell, Nr. Chippenham, Wilts. From 1981 until his death at 15 Silver Street, Tetbury, Glos.

Portrait: Pastel by Mrs Blakeney Ward in possession of his brother Andrew Antony.

Raymond married Kathleen Carnegie on 7 Jun 1941 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London. Kathleen (daughter of Rev. William Hartley Carnegie, Canon of Westminster and Albinia Frances Crawley-Boevey) was born on 1 May 1899 in Great Witley, Worcestershire; died on 9 Feb 1982 in Motor Accident. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 9 May 1911, Aldenham, Hertfordshire

Notes:

5th son. Born on 31 March 1914, baptised 9 May 1914 at Aldenham. Educated at Winchester College 1927-33, Oxford (Christ Church) BA 1937, MA 1946.

MBE (1945), TD (1945), Major Herts. Regt. RARO served in World War II (despatches); 1939/45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal.

Local Director, Barclays Bank Ltd., Oxford District 1947-53; Shrewsbury District from 1953; York District from 1961; Director of The Bank 1962; Director of Barclays Bank UK Management Ltd. 1971-79; Director Barclays Insurance Services Co. Ltd. 1970-75; Director York Waterworks Co. from 1969. Member York Diocesan Board of Finance from 1964. Member 1968 and Chairman since 1969 of Dean and Chapter of York Minister Finance Committee. Member of the HIgh Stewards Committee of York Minster and a Trustee of the York Minster Fund, from its inception in 1967. Fell Corpn. of SS Mary and Nicolas (Woodard Schools Midlands Division) from 1959; Chairman of the School Council of Worksop College and Ranby House School since 1962. A member of the Executive Committee of the Woodard Corporation since its formation in 1976. Governor of St. Edward's School, Oxford from 1948; Hon. Life member BRCS. A member of 'Nobody's Friends' since 1963.

Clubs: Travellers", Pratt's, MCC, and Yorkshire (York).

Portrait: oil by A.C. Davidson-Houston, last in his own possession and pastel by Mrs Blakeney Ward, likewise.

Last address: Kilvington Hall, Thirsk, Yorkshire


Birth:
The Old Rectory

Andrew married Elizabeth Joan Flint on 9 May 1947 in Bayford, Hertfordshire. Elizabeth (daughter of Major Eric Charles Montague Flint and Frances Sarah Nancy Hulbert) was born on 4 Oct 1921 in Eltham, Kent; died on 21 Oct 1993 in Thornton-le-Street, Yorkshire; was buried in Thornton-le-Street, Hambleton District, North Yorkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 25 Jul 1888, England
• Residence: 1891, Sunninghill, Berkshire
• Residence: 1901, Sunninghill, Berkshire
• Arrival: 8 Jul 1919, New York, USA
• Residence: 1925, Perth Australia Temple, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
• Military Service: Between 1939 and 1948, Victoria, Australia; Age: 51

Notes:

1st son. Baptised 25 July 1888 at St. Saviour's Chelsea. Educated at Eton College 1901-6; matric. Oxford (Christ Church) October 1906; BA 1910.

He was with Antony Gibbs & Sons in London 1910-14; with their Australian branch, Gibbs Bright & Co., 1914-29 (Melbourne 1914-22, Perth 1922-9), a manager of Gibbs Bright & Co., 1915 and a partner in it 1927-9. Retired 1929 and lived at 25 Cadogan Square (1932). Member of the Carlton Club from 1920.

Returned to Melbourne. Died 8 August 1974 at La Haut, Dominica and buried in Roseau, Dominica, West Indies.

Maurice married Elma Gordon Cumming on 10 Jan 1912 in Altyre Church, Nr. Forres, Moray, Scotland, and was divorced in 1923. Elma (daughter of Lt. Col. Sir William Gordon Gordon Cumming, 4th Bart and Florence Josephine Garner) was born on 23 Mar 1892 in Forres, Moray, Scotland; died on 12 Nov 1973 in Antrim Valley, St.Paul, Dominica. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maurice married Margaret Falkiner McBean on 3 May 1933 in St Martin, London. Margaret (daughter of Daniel Grant McBean and Louisa Fraser Falkiner) was born on 25 Oct 1898 in Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia; died on 4 Aug 1964 in Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1901, Chelsea, London

Notes:

1st daughter. Baptised 26 March 1896 at St. Savoir's, Chelsea. Died 27 April 1978.

MBE for work for the WVS during the Second World War, as county Organiser for Somerset. She also took a very active part in helping her husband in his constituency. Lived at Christon Old Rectory, nr. Weston-super-Mare, and susbsequently at Adcombe Edge, Corfe, Taunton, until her death.

Birth:
10 Lennox Gardens,

Helen married Sir Ian Leslie Orr Ewing, MP on 24 Jan 1917 in Westminster, London. Ian (son of Charles Lindsay Orr Ewing and Beatrix Mary Leslie Hore Ruthven) was born on 4 Jun 1893 in Newark Castle, Ayreshire; died on 27 Apr 1958 in Bristol, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Baptism: 13 Jul 1913, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire
• Arrival: 30 Nov 1933, London; Age: 20
• Residence: 1935, Westminster, London

Notes:

1st daughter. Baptised 13 July 1913 at Hunsdon, Herts. 1 son and 4 daughters: Nicholas Hickman Ponsonby, born 1937, Page of Honour to The Queen 1966-69; Joanna Constance, born 1937, married Hon. Edward Roundell Palamer; Lavina Winifred, born 1939, married Stephen Cokayne Gibbs; Elizabeth Albinia, born 1944, married Ronald James Bremner Hoare; Sarah, born 1947, married Paul Douglas Nicholson.

Priscilla married Sir Edmund Castell Bacon, KG, OBE, TD, RA on 15 Jan 1936 in Hunsdon, Hertfordshire. Edmund was born on 18 Mar 1903; died on 30 Sep 1982 in Raveningham, Norfolk. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 5 May 1916, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire

Notes:

2nd daughter. Baptised 5 May 1916 at Hunsdon aforesaid. Educated Southover Manor School, Lewes.

3 sons, 1 daughter. Christopher Mark, Merchant Banker, born 1941, married Elizabeth Gretton, 2 sons; Andrew Francis Parish Priest, born 1943, married Caroline Hobson, 1 son, 1 daughter; Peter John, Biochemist, born 1947, married Judith Marten, 1 son, 1 daughter; Anna Mary Barbara, born 1960, a Photographer for the Courtauld Institute.

Died:
Death Age (est): 90

Diana married Rev. Canon Mark Meynell on 4 Jul 1940 in Wootton, Oxfordshire. Mark (son of Lt. Col. Francis Hugo Lindley Meynell, DSO and Dorothy Legge) was born on 19 Feb 1914 in Portman Square, Marylebone, London; died on 5 Apr 2006 in Framlingham, Suffolk. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 31 Aug 1919, South Weald, Essex

Notes:

3rd daughter. Baptised 31 August 1919 at South Weald Essex. Educated at Southover Manor School, Lewes.

1944 & 1945 British Embassy, Moscow. 1979 Elected to the Board of Governors of the English speaking Union.

1 son, 3 daughters: John Ashley, born 1948, Banker, Teacher, married Audrey Naper; Caroline Mary, born 1950 speech therapist, married Stephen Codnor; Susanna, born 1954, Occupational Therapist and gardener at RHS Gardens, Wisley; Jane Lavinia, born 1958, Secretary at Conservative Central Office.

Lavinia married Michael Aubrey Hamilton, MP on 16 May 1947 in Knightsbridge, London. Michael (son of Rev. E K C Hamilton) was born in 1918. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 22 Mar 1921
• Military Service: Between 1945 and 1946
• Residence: 1949, Westminster, London
• Residence: 1951, Chelsea, London
• Residence: 1952, Chelsea, London
• Residence: 1956, Chelsea, London
• Residence: 1957, Windsor, Berkshire
• Arrival: 26 Nov 1961, Hamilton, Bermuda
• Residence: 1969, Windsor, Berkshire
• Residence: 1982, Woodstock, Oxfordshire

Notes:

Baptised 22 March 1921 at Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, Westminster. Educated at Eton College and Oxford (Balliol College).

1941 2nd Lieut. Coldstream Guards. 1942-45 served in Second World War in North Africa and Italy. Wounded in Italy. Captain 1943. Awarded Military Cross.

From 1946 worked initially with Helbert Wagg & Co., Merchant Bankers and, after the merger in April 1962, with J. Henry Schroder Wagg & Co. Ltd. A Managing Director of Helbert Wagg since January 1957 and of J. Henry Schroder Wagg & Co. Ltd., since 1962.

Director of: The Associated Biscuit Manufacturers Ltd.; Australian & International Trust Ltd.; City & Commercial Investment Trust Ltd.; The Colville Estate Ltd. (Chairman); The Equitable Life Assurance Society; Fundinvest Ltd.; Romney Trust Ltd.; Rowntree mackintosh Ltd.; Schroder Executor & Trustee Co. Ltd.; Schroder Properties Ltd.; Triplevest Ltd.; Updown Investment Co. Ltd.; Cheapside Dollar Fund (New York).

Church Commissioner (since 1963), serving on the Assets Committee, which looks after their Stock Exchange securities, urban property and farmland. A member of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster. Trustee of The Dulverton Trust. Deputy Chairman of London House for Overseas Graduates. Trustee of the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre Trust. Trustee of the Oxford and District Hospitals Improvement Fund. Vice-President of the Oxfordshire Playing Fields Association, Governor of the Ditchley Foundation. Governor of the Church School at Wootton and Member of the Wootton PCC. Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire from 1 January 1980.

Runs a small Dairy Farm at Woodleys, Woodstock. Interested in forestry and gardening.

Four sons: Charles Ashley, born 1951, Chartered Account, and married Mary Bromley Davenport in 1983; Rupert Spencer, born 1953, Scrap Metal Merchant, and married Amanda Colvin in 1985; Luke Arthur, born 1957, 9/12th Lancers; John Piers, born 1962, Page of Honour to HM The Queen 1976-1978,

Clubs: Brook's, Pratt's.

Ashley married Lady Martha Butler on 14 Sep 1950 in Westminster, London. Martha (daughter of James Arthur Norman Butler, 6th Marquess of Ormonde, CVO, MC and Jessie Carlos Clarke Marchioness of Ormonde) was born on 14 Jan 1926 in Farnborough, Berkshire; died on 8 Aug 2010 in Grim's Dyke Farm, Woodleys, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1HJ; was buried in Wootton, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 3 Jun 1923, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire

Notes:

4th daughter. Baptised 3 June 1923 at Hunsdon aforesaid.

3 sons, 2 daughters: Thomas James Ponsonby, born 1950; George Edward, born 1953; Richard Ashley, born 1954; Emma Juliet Geraldine, born 1957; Charlotte Mary Rose, born 1960.

Juliet married Rt. Hon. James Edward Ramsden, PC on 25 Jun 1949 in Wootton, Oxfordshire. James (son of Capt. Edward Ramsden, MC and Geraldine) was born on 1 Nov 1923; died on 29 Mar 2020. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 22 Mar 1921, Westminster, London

Notes:

Born at 35 Gloucester Place, St. Marylebone, 11 February and baptised 22 March 1921 at Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley St., Westminster. Educated at Eton College. Killed in action at Nijmegen 20 September 1944.


Died:
Killed in Action

Vicary married Jean Frances Hambro, CVO on 19 Sep 1942 in Westminster, London. Jean (daughter of Captain Angus Valdimar Hambro and Vanda Dorothea St John Charlton) was born on 22 Feb 1923 in Paddington, London; died on 7 Dec 2017. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 21 Jun 1922, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire
• Departure: Mar 1948, Liverpool, Lancashire

Notes:

2nd son, 5th Baron Aldenham and 3rd Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon (1969). Born at Stanstead Lodge, Stanstead Abbotts, Herts., 18 May and baptised at Hunsdon aforesaid 21 June 1922. Educated at Eton College (1935-40) and Christ Church, Oxford (1946-47). Died 25 January 1986, burial at Hunsdon 9 March 1986. morial at St. Michael's, Cornhill, London, 10 March 1986.

5th Lord Aldenham. Eton College Cricket XI 1940; Eton Society ('Pop' 1940. Served in Royal Navy from December 1940 (ordinary seaman) to June 1946. (Lieutenant R.N.V.R.) mainly in destroyers in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, 2 convoys to Russia (Murmansk). Landings in North Africa (Oran), Italy (Anzio) and Normandy. 1939-1945 Star, Italy Star, North Atlantic Star and Africa Star, Victory Medal.

Read P.P.E. at Christ Church, Oxford, after the War. Joined Antony Gibbs and Sons September 1947 and was sent to the Chilean office; May 1948 Santiago; November 1948-September 1950 Valparaiso, and was responsible for opening a new office in Osorno October 1950-March 1951. Director of Antony Gibbs and Sons 1954-1980.

Maiden Speech in the House of Lords, June 1974, on the National Health Service, Member of Finance Committee of Regional Health Authority, N. Thames since 1974. Member Royal Yacht Squadron 1977. Member of Lloyds Underwirters 1977, 1978 Chairman of Appeal for St. Albans Abbey Restoration Fund. Clubs: R.Y.S., M.C.C., Pratts. Lived at Stanstead Lodge, Stanstead Abbotts, Ware, Herts from 1951-80, and then Rimpton Manor, Yeovil, Somerset.

Antony married Lady Mary Elizabeth Tyser, Aldenham on 16 Jul 1947 in St Margaret's, Westminster, London. Mary (daughter of Walter Parkyns Tyser and Jessie Woodriff Berklely Quill) was born on 23 Jul 1921 in Hyde Park Mansions, London; died on 16 Apr 2022. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Obituary at http://www.gibbsbrightclub.org/id51.htm


Birth:
Shipley House

David married Charmian Fleur Mein [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 6 Oct 1929, Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire

Notes:

2nd son. Baptised 6 October 1929 at Hertingfordbury. Educated at Eton.

Joined the Army September 1947. Commissioned in 60th Rifles May 1948 and demobilised September 1949. Joined Queen Victoria's Rifles (TA) 1952; Captain 1956; Major 1959; retired 1962.

Entered Port Line Ltd. October 1949; Assistant Manager 1957; London Manager 1959-62. Entered Charles Barker and Sons Ltd. 1962, Director since 1962. Director Vaux Breweries from 1971 and other companies

Travelled extensively in the USA, Canada, Southern Africa and Australasia.

Interests: Fishing, shooting, stalking, ornithology and gardening.

Clubs: White's, Pratt's.

Address: Isle of Arran since 1972


Dougarie owner dies aged 88
The Arran Banner 18 Nov 2017

Stephen Gibbs OBE, who died on november 12.
The man who ran Dougarie Estate for the last 35 years has passed away. Stephen Gibbs OBE died peacefully at his home on Sunday. He was 88.
A statement from the Gibbs family said: ‘It is with great sadness that we inform you that Stephen Gibbs died on Sunday morning (November 12) at home. A service of thanksgiving will be held at 11.45am, Monday November 27 at Shiskine Church.’
Stephen Cokayne Gibbs was born on 18 July 1929, the son of Sir Geoffrey Cokayne Gibbs and Helen Margaret Leslie. He was educated at Eton College, Windsor and gained the rank of lieutenant in 1948 in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps. He later reached the rank of major in 1960 in the QVR (Territorial Army).
He married Lavinia Winifred Bacon, daughter of Sir Edmund Castell Bacon and Priscilla Dora Ponsonby, on 21 November 1972. The couple acquired the 27,000-acre sporting estate on Arran the same year and it was to be their home for the next 35 years. Stephen was also a former director of Charles Barker plc and the Vaux Group plc.
He was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year’s honours list in 2001 for his services to deer management.
He is survived by his wife Lavinia and their three children Emily, James and William.


Dougarie Estate: https://www.dougarieestate.co.uk

Stephen married Lavinia Winifred Bacon [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 6 Dec 1934, St Mary's, Essenden, Herts
• Residence: 2003, 23 Tregunter Road, London SW10 9LS

Notes:

Educated at Eton 1948 to 1951 and Millfield 1952 to 1953.

4th son of the late The Hon. Sir Geoffrey Gibbs, KCMG, and the late The Hon. Lady Gibbs CBE.

Knighted 1993.

Jessel Toynbee & Co. Ltd 1954-1964, Dir 1960-64.; de Zoete & Gorton (later de Zoete & Bevan), 1964 to 1971 (Partner 1966 to 1971); Gerrard & National Discount Co. Ltd. 1971 to 1994, (Chairman 1975 to 1989). The London Discount Market Association, Chairman 1984-86.

The Wellcome Trust, Trustee 1983 to 1989, Chairman of the Board of Governors, 1989 to 1999. The Trust became the largest Charitable Trust in the world in 2006 when Bill Gates and Warren Buffet merged their charitable interests. In 2014, The Wellcome Trust’s investment portfolio has multiplied more than 30,000 times since its inception in 1936.

Fleming Family & Partners, 2000-2007, Chairman 2000-2003, Director 2000-07.

Among his Directorships Arsenal Football Club 1980-2006, The Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses 1975-2001, Genome Research Ltd 1992-1997.

Among his Trusteeships The Mermaid Theatre - Governor 1980-1983, The London Clinic, Governor 1983-1992, Guy's Hospital Special Trustee 1983-92, Arundel Castle Cricket Foundation, Chairman 1986 to 1995, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, Trustee 2000-2009.

Honorary Fellowships The Academy of Medical Sciences, The Royal College of Physicians, The University of Dundee, The University of London.

Among his Committees Lord's Taverners - City of London Region 1983 to 1995, Imperial Cancer Research Fund (later Cancer Research UK) 1982 to 2002, Marylebone Cricket Club 1988 to 1994, St. Paul's Cathedral Foundation, Chairman, 1988 to 2006, The Royal Society of Medicine, Investment Committee, 2001-02.

Other Activities St Mortiz Tobogganing Club (The Cresta Run) Committee Member 1961-, Treasurer 1962-1967, President 1973-78 and 1984-85 for the Centenary Year of the Cresta Run. ABC Television of America 'Wide World of Sport' Commentator for Cresta races 1967-1985.

Clubs City Road Runners' Association President 1984-88; London Bankers' Golfing Society President 1985-89.

Memberships Boodle's, MCC, Pratt's, Queen's, Swinley Forest Golf Club, White's

Interests all types of sport, travel.

Publications 'The Cresta Run 1885-1985' - published by Henry Melland Ltd in 1984, and many articles on The Cresta Run and Alpine Tobogganing in international magazines.

Miscellaneous City of London Freeman 1963; Churchwarden, St. Edmund the King and Martyr, Lombard Street, 1977 to 1991; Gillette London Marathon, May 1982, ran and raised £440,000 for a Philips CT Scanner for Guy's Hospital.



See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Gibbs

Roger married Jane Patricia Lee on 21 Sep 2005. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Valentine Patrick Fleming [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: New York, USA
• Departure: Beira, Sofala, Mozambique
• Baptism: 15 Mar 1935, Bonisa, Bulawayo, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe
• Arrival: 16 Sep 1954, London; Age: 19
• Arrival: 10 Oct 1955, Southampton, Hampshire; Age: 20

Notes:

Baptised at Bonisa 15 March 1935. Educated at Ruzawi School, Diocesan College Rondebosch; Christ Church, Oxford (M.A.).

Worked for various subsidiaries of Antony Gibbs Holdings since 1957, firstly in Johannesburg and then in Rhodesia for 12 years. At present with Antony Gibbs Safe Ltd. in London. Fellow of the Corporation of Insurance Brokers; Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute. Secretary to the Fund Raising Committee of Jairos Jiri Association in Britain (an Association to help handicapped Africans). Governor of St. Mary's School, Wantage, since 1973; Governor of Colville Junior School (Inner London Education Authority).

Interests: shooting and fishing.

Club: Bulawayo (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe).

Jeremy married Alison Douglas Martin, JP [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Beira, Sofala, Mozambique
• Departure: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• Baptism: 6 Jun 1937
• Arrival: 16 Sep 1954, London; Age: 17
• Arrival: 23 Sep 1957, Southampton, Hampshire; Age: 20

Notes:

2nd son. Baptised 6 June 1937. Educated at Ruzawi School; Diocesan college, Rondebosch; Prince Edward SBY; Cirencester Agricultural College, 1958.

1959-77. Farming in Rhodesia. 1959-63 Joint Manager with his brother Tim of home farm. 1963-66 joint manager of tobacco, beef, maize producing enterprise. 1966 Management trainee with Gallahers (Belfast). 1967-69 manager of private farming company near Salisbury, responsible for maize, beef and quarrying enterprises. 1969-73 manager of private farming company near Salisbury; farm products included tobacco, maize, ranch beef and stallfed beef, some irrigated pasture and arable crops; 1973-77 Manager private farming company Bulawayo; responsible for dry land and irrigated feed production for 200 cow dairy herd.

While in Rhodesia was Chairman of dairy branch association and Vice-Chairman of local Farmers Association. Church Council member and member of board of boys prep school and girls finishing school.

1959-72 Rhodesian Police Reserve. 1969-77 Vice-President of Centre Party which was the only party to have members elected to oppose Ian Smith's Rhodesian Front Party.

1977 Moved to England with his family and from 1977-78 attended Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, Advanced Farm Management Course.

1979 joined Booker McConnell Ltd. and seconded to Big Falls Ranch (Booker Agriculture INternational Ltd.) Belize, as General Manager of 37,000 acres of Rice/Cattle project.

Interests and hobbies: Most branches of Natural History, ornithology and archaeology. Has travelled overland from London to Capetown and has also participated in many natural history expeditions in Rhodesia and bordering countries; fishing and most other outdoor activities.

Clubs: Bulawayo and Salisbury

Nigel married Barbara Boitumelo Paterson [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 30 Apr 1939

Notes:

Baptised 30 April 1939 at St. John's, Bulawayo. Educated at Ruzawi School and Diocesan College, Rondebosch.

Went into dairy farming 1957. Chairman Dairy Producers of Matabeleland 1963-68. President of Matabeleland Branch of Rhodesia National Farmers Union 1968-71. President of the Rhodesia Party in opposition to the Rhodesian Front 1974-76. Member of British South African Police Reserve from 1961. Wounded in action 1977. Member of the Board of Gibbs and Co. (CA) (Pvt) Ltd.

Interests: Farmers Unions, politics, shooting, fishing, reading.

Timothy married Susan Heather Rankine [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Kenneth married Mary Elizabeth Frances Beamish [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Simon married Philippa Mary Brand [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 5 Jul 1925
• Arrival: 25 Sep 1951, San Francisco, California, USA
• Residence: 1954, Auckland, New Zealand

Notes:

2nd Baronet, 1st son. Baptised 5 July 1925 at Broadwell. Educated at Eton and Oxford (Christ Church) 1945-47.

Second World War, 1943-45 with Coldstream Guards. Succeeded his father as 2nd Baronet 23 May 1951.

1 son and 2 daughters: William McLernon, born 5 August 1954; Rosemary Louise, born 23 December 1952, married Frederick Le Roux, 1 daughter: Joanne Jane, born 2 May 1958.

Richard married Jane Isobel McLernon on 22 Dec 1951 in Gisbourne, New Zealand. Jane (daughter of H S P McLernon) was born on 3 Jun 1920 in Gisbourne, New Zealand; died on 25 Feb 1998 in Chichester, Sussex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 12 Feb 1928, Broadwell, Gloucestershire

Notes:

3rd son. Baptised 12 February 1928 at Broadwell. Educated at Eton College and Cambridge (Magdalene College) MA. (Cantab), MA (Oxon.)

FRSA., FIB Local Director of Barclays Bank, Oxford; Director of Barclays Bank Ltd., of Barclays Bank UK Ltd. and of Barclays Bank International Ltd. Curator of Oxford University Chest. Trustee of Nuffield Medical Trust, of Nuffield Dominions Trust, of Nuffield Orthopaedic Trust and of Oxford and District Hospitals Improvement and Development Fund. Trustee of the Oxford Preservation Trust. Governor of Shiplake College 1963-74 (Chairman 1966-70) and of Wellington College 1968-74. Fellow of the Linnean Society (Member of Council 1968, Treasurer 1970-75).

Farms in partnership with his brother Sam, his wife June and son David. Patron and Churchwarden of the Parish of St. Peter and St. Paul, Broadwell. Trustee of various local charities.

Clubs: Brooks's

1 son and 2 daughters: David Frederick born 21 June 1955; Annabel Margaret, born 12 July 1957, married Paul Christopher Charles Molyneaux on 24 May 1980; Victoria Frances, born 10 February 1961.

Latest address: Broadwell Manor, Lechlade, Glos.

Frederick married Marguerite June Mackintosh [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 Jun 1930, Broadwell, Gloucestershire

Notes:

4th son. Baptised 1 June 1930 at Broadwell. Educated at Eton College and Oxford (Christ Church) MA.

FRICS, FRSA. Joined Messrs. Knight Frank & Rutley 1952. Partner in 1961 and Senior Partner in 1978. Has always been involved with the agricultural side of the business, working in Australia and West Africa, as well as in the UK Governor of London House for Overseas Graduates 1961 (appointed a Vice-Chairman of the Trust in 1980), Halls of Residence for Commonwealth Postgraduate Students founded by his grand-father F.C. Goodenough and his father Sir William Goodenough. Chairman of the Homeopathic Trust, a medical Charity supporting the training of doctors in Homeopathic Medicine.

Liveryman of the Goldsmith's Company; Commissioner of Taxation 1978; First President of the Agriculture Commission of the International Real Estate Federation 1974-78.

Actively involved in Church affairs in Oxfordshire, as Patron, Lay Chairman of the PCC and Organist of St. Peter's, Broughton Poggs. Amateur organist (Prize Winner at Eton); amateur landscape painter. With his brother Roger and his family he farms in the parishes of Broadwell and Filkins. Other interests: gardening, trees, shooting.

Clubs: Brooks's, Pratt's New (Edinburgh).

Last address: Filkins Hall, Filkins, Lechlade, Glos. and 4 Stanhope Gardens, London, SW7.

Samuel married Patricia Barnett [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Captain John Alistair Ponsonby Forbes [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Chartered Accountant
• Baptism: 30 Oct 1948, Christ Church, Oxford

Notes:

1st son. Baptised 30 October 1948 at Christ Church. Educated at Winchester College 1962-67.

Qualified as Chartered Accountant 1974. Lived and worked in Nairobi, Kenya 1974-79. From 1980 with Balfour Williamson & Co. Ltd., London - Director from 1987 to 1997. From 1997 Director of Intramar Ltd, based in Sussex (1997 to 2006) and Dorset (2006 to date), and Oman International Group SAOC, Muscat, Oman.

Portrait: Pastel by Ludmilla Trapp, last in his own possession.

Last address: Church Farm House, Batcombe, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 7BG

Clubs: Pratt's, Muthaiga Country Club (Nairobi, Kenya).

John married Julia Margaret Edwards [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alan married Francine Nicola Preston [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 7 Dec 1912, Chelsea, London

Notes:

Born 8 November 1912. Baptised 7 December 1912 at the chapel of the Royal Hospital Chelsea (first baby).

Went to Australia with her parents living first in Melbourne and then in Perth where she attended The Presbyterian Ladies College. She returned to England when she was 12 and finished her education at Heathfield School and also in Paris. In 1932 her mother and stepfather moved to Dominica in the West Indies and she went with them, living there for the rest of her life. She marired Percy Kirwan Agar a farmer and well known painter and ornithologist. She ran the census office in the War. After husband’s death in 1954 she continued to run the estate, started the local radio station, worked for many local charities including the Red Cross and was a founder member and Managing director of the Fort Young Hotel for many years.

The Fort Young Hotel, Dominica, which was destroyed by Hurricane 'David' when it hit Dominica in August 1979, but since rebuilt. She also helped to run the Coulibri Estate dairy farm, and the farm at La Haut, the family estate, that was also totally wrecked in the hurricane; all the buildings on the dairy farm fell down, but only one cow was lost.

Last address: Morne Rouge, Dominica, West Indies, which was one of the few houses not destroyed by the hurricane.

Died 4 January 2011.

Birth:
27 Ormonde Gate

Daphne married Percy Kirwan Agar on 5 Jan 1934 in Roseau, Saint George, Dominica. Percy was born on 28 Sep 1897 in Roseau, Saint George, Dominica; died on 12 Jul 1954 in La Haut, Saint George, Dominica. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Baptised 15 December 1917 a the parish church at St. Anne's on Sea, Lancashire. Educated at Graham Street, SW3.

(Formerly Fox, then Lowes). Justice of the Peace Taunton County Bench since 1950. During the Second World War assisted her mother as a secretary, and with WVS Clothing Depot, Somerset.

1 son and 1 daughter: Charles St. Vigor Fix, born 1941, married Charlotte Certhia Ingram; Helen Mary Fox, born 1939, married Major Blair Aubyn Stewart-Wilson, Scots Guards, Deputy Master of the Household and Permanent Equerry to HM The Queen since August 1976.

Address: Thorn Falcon House, Taunton.

Birth:
7 St. George's Square,

Anthea married Major Wilfrid Michael Fox on 2 Nov 1938. Wilfrid was born in 1907; died on 13 Jan 1975. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anthea married Edward John Ninian Lowes in 1977. Edward was born in 1914. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]