The Hon. Henry Lloyd Gibbs

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

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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]

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• 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

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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]

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• Residence: 1901, Chelsea, London

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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:

• Baptism: 7 Dec 1912, Chelsea, London

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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]

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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]

Antony married Madeleine Carmel Morrison [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mark Varvill. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Charlotte Certhia Ingram. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Major Blair Aubyn Stewart-Wilson, KCVO. Blair was born on 17 Jul 1929; died on 24 May 2011. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]