Sir Thomas Crawley-Boevey, 3rd Bart. of Flaxley

Thomas married Mary Albinia Page on 28 Oct 1807 in St Marylebone, London. Mary (daughter of Thomas Hyde Page, Sir and Mary Albinia Woodward) was born on 22 Sep 1784 in Bettshanger Park, Kent; died on 16 Feb 1835 in Flaxley Abbey, Gloucester, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 22 Oct 1813, St Michael, Gloucester, Gloucestershire
• Residence: 1841, Flaxley, Gloucestershire

Notes:

Died:
Flaxley Abbey

Martin married Elizabeth Daubeny on 7 Jun 1836 in Walcot, Somerset. Elizabeth (daughter of Rev. George William Daubeny and Elizabeth Crawley) was born on 6 Dec 1814 in Bath, Somerset; died on 9 Aug 1892 in Westbury On Severn, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 16 Jan 1818, St Michael, Gloucester, Gloucestershire
• Residence: 1881, Paddington, London

Notes:

During her widowhood Tyntesfield and 16 Hyde Park Gardens continued to be her residences. She built (1876-8) and endowed St. Michael's Home for Consumptives in the parish of Cheddar, Somerset in memory of her husband, redecorated the chancel of St. Michael's, Exeter, which he built, and improved Exwick church. She endowed Keble College, Oxford (1881) with a fund of an annual value of £800 for Scholarships and for other grants to students. She built and maintained (as also did her son Antony after her) a Cottage Convalescent Home ("St. John's Lodge") at Wraxall afsd. and also built there in 1885 the large village club and in 1887 seven almshouses ("The Jubilee Cottages"): also the Battle Axes Inn, establishing it in her own name and on the principle of temperance as opposed to teetotalism. She gave the site (the site was left to her by her husband, she left money to the Home in her will) for the Convalescent and Incurable Home at Woking, Surrey, founded in connection with the Sisterhood of St. Peter's Kilburn, which manages St. Michael's Home afsd. A ward in Weston-super-Mare Convalescent Home, where she undertook the cost of 33 beds, bore her name.

Memorial Inscription in Wraxall churchyard and church; Tyntesfield chapel; Barrow Gurney chapel (to which she game some windows); Flaxley church (organ remade in her memory); the chapel of Keble College; and M. windows in Barrow Court chapel.

Refer to the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, especially pp. 33-5, 439 and 445-6 for her relations, ancestry, and 'Royal Descent', and for notes of printed books which refer to them; see also entry for her father Rev. Charles Crawley. A good memoir of her by "C.M.Y." (her friend and cousin Charlotte M. Yonge, the authoress) appeared in The Guardian newspaper at her death. For lists of Portraits and Sculpture see Gibbs Pedigree (1904) and the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, p. 435, and add to them a drawing (1873) by C.W.S (was in possession of Martin A Gibbs).

Matilda married William Gibbs, of Tyntesfield on 1 Aug 1839 in Flaxley, Gloucestershire. William (son of Antony Gibbs and Dorothea Barnetta Hucks) was born on 22 May 1790 in Calle de Cantarranas, Madrid, Spain; died on 3 Apr 1875 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset; was buried in Wraxall, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 2 Aug 1837, Flaxley, Gloucestershire

Thomas married Frances Elizabeth Peters on 25 Jul 1865 in Eastington, Gloucestershire. Frances was born in Jan 1842 in Eastington, Gloucestershire; died on 24 Nov 1905 in Westbury on Severn, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: High Sheriff, county Somerset
• Baptism: 11 Jan 1842, St Johns, Paddington, London
• Residence: 1901, Paddington, London

Notes:

1st son of Tyntesfield. Baptised 11 January 1842 at St. John's, Paddington. Educated at Radley College 1855-7; matric. at Oxford (Exeter College) 2 May 1862; BA 1867; MA 1869; entered at the Inner Temple as a student 1865. Died at Tyntesfield 24 and was buried 29 April 1907 at Wraxall, Somerset. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there and in the chapel (Charlton chapel), in Tyntesfield chapel and Keble College chapel; Memorial window in Clyst St. George chapel. Will dated 23 March 1905, proved 12 July 1907.

After marriage, Charlton (see entry for William Gibbs of Tyntesfield) was his country residence till his mother died; thereafter Tyntesfield. He succeeded to his father's properties in Somerset and Devon. He bought Barrow Court in Barrow Gurney, Somerset, adjoining Flax Bourton, from John Henry Blagrave in 1881 and sold it (with most of its land) to his brother Martin in 1884 and he augmented the living of Barrow Gurney. He bought, about 1874, Barton Place in the parish of St. David, Exeter, the ancestral home of his wife's family. He was patron of the livings of Clyst St. George, Exwick, Stowe-nine-churches, St. Michael's in Paddington, North Newton and Otterbourne which were all in his father's gift, also of Alphington, Devon, and of Flax Barton (in which part of the Tyntesfield Estate lies) both of which he bought.

A member of the Council of Radley College 1890-7. He and his brother, Martin, gave to Keble College, Oxford, in their father's memory, the side of the main quadrangle of the College embracing the hall, library, common rooms and kitchen. The foundation stone was laid in 1876, on the same day that the Chapel given by their father to the College was opened (see also entry for William Gibbs of Tyntesfield), and the opening took place in 1878, when the two brothers, whose names had so far been withheld, were disclosed as the donors (the deed of gift hangs in the Senior Common Room of the College).

Wraxall church was restored (1893) at his chief cost (Sir Arthur Blomfield, architect), and he introduced the stained glass windows by Kemp, and screened off the Charlton chapel, adding to it the reredos by Kemp.

He joined the North Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry as Cornet, 3 January, 1871; Captain October, 1881; Hon. Major, 1881; Major, 1886; retired 1893.

Justice of the Peace for Somerset from about 1867 to 1907. On the Highway Board and Board of Guardians. High Sheriff of Somerset for 1888 and Deputy Lieutenant 1889-1907. An Alderman of the Somerset County Council to 1898. President of the North Somerset Conservative Association for a great number of years. A Life Governor of Bristol General Hospital. On Bristol Diocesan committees for the promotion of Church matters. (In Sidney Lee's 'Life of King Edward VII (1923-7) it is related that the King when Prince of Wales twice in 1881 pressed on Gladstone the bestowal of a Baronetcy on Antony Gibbs. His son Lord Wraxall told John Arthur Gibbs - fourth editor of the Gibbs Pedigree - that this story was inaccurate and he asked Lee to omit it from any later edition, the facts being that the Liberal Whip Marjoribanks (later Lord Tweedmouth invited Antony to an interview, at which he said that gladstone desired to suggest him to the Queen for a Peerage, making reference to his and his father's philanthropic works, but that Antony having then mentioned that he was a Conservative he heard no more of the matter

Portraits: as a child by John Phillip, miniature with his father and sister Dorothea by Sir Wm. Ross, oil by J. H. Lorimer; all last in possession of Lord Wraxall in 1930 (11). The portrait in the Hall of Keble College is a copy by F. George Swaish of the Lorimer.

Birth:
13 Hyde Park Gardens

Antony married Janet Louisa Merivale on 22 Jun 1872 in St. Michael's, Star Street, Paddington. Janet (daughter of John Louis Merivale and Mary Anne Webster) was born on 15 Dec 1850 in Kilburn, Middlesex; died on 10 Dec 1909 in London; was buried on 14 Dec 1909 in Wraxall, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 24 Nov 1843, Paddington, London
• Residence: 1851, Paddington, London
• Residence: 7 1861, Paddington, London

Notes:

Baptised 24 November 1843 at St. John's Church, Paddington. Died at Tyntesfield 12th and was buried 17th March 1871 at Wraxall. Memorial Inscription in the church and outside the vestry and in Tyntesfield chapel.

Portraits: Drawing (with her son Cyril)
by E. U. Eddis, a drawing by W. Richmond, and a bust by Munro. Min. by Sir Wm. Ross, was last in possession of Lord Wraxall in 1930.

Birth:
13 Hyde Park Street

Alice married Rev. Alfred Gurney on 16 Aug 1866 in Wraxall, Somerset. Alfred (son of Rev. John Hampden Gurney and Mary Grey) was born on 14 Nov 1843 in Lutterworth, Leicestershire; died on 28 Nov 1898 in Roehampton, Surrey; was buried on 2 Dec 1898 in Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 24 Jun 1850, Paddington, London
• Residence: 1891, Paddington, London
• Residence: 1901, Windsor, Berkshire

Notes:

4th son of William Gibbs of Tyntesfield of Barrow Court, Somerset. Baptised 24 June 1850 at St. John's, Paddington. Educated at Lancing College 1866-69; matric. Cambridge (Clare College) 1871. Buried 25 April 1928 at Barrow Gurney, Somerset. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there; in Barrow Court chapel; in the chapel of Keble College, Oxford; in King's College, Taunton and Lancing College; Memorial window in Down Ampney Church, Wiltshire and Memorial reredos in the chapel of St. Michael's Home in Cheddar, the 2 last to him and his wife. Will dated 19 November 1926, cod. 20 March 1928, proved 24 August 1928.

During 1874 he lived at Malahuasi in the valley of Jauga, Peru, for his health. He restored Barrow Court 1882-84 for his home and bought it and the advowson of Barrow Gurney in 1885: restored the church at Barrow Gurney, 1887; erected or restored many buildings in the village; and bought the manor of Barrow Gurney 1902. The manor and village had previously belonged to J. Gratwick Blagrave, son of J. H. Blagrave.

Leased Down Ampney House, co. Glos., 1893-1916 and gave the screen, new pulpit, new seats and other gifts to the church there. For his benefaction with his brother Antony of a block of buildings to Keble College, Oxford, in 1875-78, in memory of their father, see Antony Gibbs. He gave the building which contains the school hall and class rooms, and many other benefactions, to Lancing College, and to its chapel; also gave a new wing to Ardingly College and was a great benefactor to this and other of the Southern and Western schools of the "Woodard" group.

He was on the Corporation of SS. Mary and Nicolas (the governing body of all the "Woodard" schools); a Fellow (1879-1928) of the Society of the SS. Mary and Nicolas (Lancing and the other Southern Schools); Fellow and Gustos (1879-1928) of the Society of SS. Mary and Andrew (King's Coll., Taunton); on the Committee of Lancing Coll., and Trustee of its property; founded three scholarships there.

He restored the Garrison Church at Dover Castle, and gave the reredos to the English Church at Balquhidder, co. Perth. Chairman of the Trust of St. Michael's Home in Cheddar. On the Long Ashton Rural District Council, 1902-28, and Chairman of the Barrow-Gurney Parish Council. A Justice of the Peace for Somerset (Long Ashton petty sessional division) 1886-1928. High Sheriff of Somerset for 1897. Served on various committees of the Bath and Wells Diocesan Conference.

Portraits: Oil by Solomon J. Solomon, last in possession of his son Major Antony Gibbs; water colour by E. Clifford, chalk by J. de Cazenave (1859), a min., a water colour (on photo base) by Speaight (1920), whereabouts unknown (1980); oil by Goldsborough Anderson (about 1903) at Lancing Coll.; min. (as a child, with his bro. George) by Sir W. Ross was last in possn. of Lord Wraxall (in 1930.

Birth:
8 Sussex Square,

Died:
Barrow Court

Henry married Emily Anna Otter on 22 Jun 1883 in Lindfield, Sussex. Emily (daughter of Rev. William Bruere Otter and Elizabeth Melvil) was born on 6 Mar 1854 in Cowfold, Sussex; died on 5 Jul 1928 in Fyfield, Berkshire; was buried on 8 Jul 1928 in Barrow Gurney, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1871, Flaxley, Gloucestershire; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
• Residence: 1881, Flaxley, Gloucestershire; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
• Residence: 1891, Hartlebury, Worcestershire; Relation to Head of House: Visitor
• Residence: 1901, Great Witley, Worcestershire; Relation to Head of House: Wife
• Residence: 31 Mar 1901, Great Witley, Worcestershire

Albinia married Rev. William Hartley Carnegie, Canon of Westminster in Apr 1892 in Westbury On Severn, Gloucestershire. William (son of Robert Carnegie and Emily Porter) was born on 27 Feb 1859 in Dublin, Ireland; died on 18 Oct 1936 in Westminster, London; was buried in Westminster Abbey, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Francis married Eliza Barbara Blake McGrath on 18 Mar 1896 in Chelsea, London. Eliza was born in 1874 in Alderley Edge, Cheshire; died in 1962. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 3 Aug 1873, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1881, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 14 Oct 1892, Oxford, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1901, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Wraxall, Somerset

Notes:

George Abraham Gibbs, 1st Baron Wraxall, PC DL (6 July 1873 – 28 October 1931), was a British Conservative politician. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gibbs,_1st_Baron_Wraxall



Birth:
Charlton on the Tyntesfield Estate

George married Victoria Florence de Burgh Long on 26 Nov 1901 in All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, Westminster, London. Victoria (daughter of Viscount Walter Hume Long and Dorothy Blanche Boyle) was born on 10 Aug 1880 in 1 Grafton Street, Westminster, London; died on 29 Mar 1920 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Hon Ursula Mary Lawley, Baroness Wraxall, OBE, RRC on 21 Jul 1927 in St Margaret's, Westminster, London. Ursula (daughter of Arthur Lawley, 6th Baron Wenlock and Annie Allen Cunard, Baroness Wenlock, GBE) was born on 8 Jun 1888 in Fulford, Yorkshire; died on 16 Oct 1979 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset; was buried on 20 Oct 1979 in All Saint's Church, Wraxall, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Santa Fe, Argentina
• Baptism: 8 Nov 1874, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1881, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Clyst St Mary, Devon
• Arrival: 1 Dec 1960, London

Notes:

2nd son of Antony Gibbs of Tyntesfield. Baptised 8 November 1874 at Wraxall, Somerset. Educated at Eton College, 1888-92; matric. Cambridge (Trinity Hall) 1893; BA 1897.

Tenant of his brother George from 1899 of Pytte, Clyst St. George. In the firm of Antony Gibbs & Sons in the City of London 1898-9. Partner from 1899 in Milford Snow & Co. (The City Bank) Exeter, since united with Sanders & Co. (The Exeter Bank) later the National Provincial Bank, Ltd., of which he was a local director. Among many other official occupations in Devon, member of The Tuckers' Hall, Exeter, from 1906, President for 1912. President of Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital 1923-5. Treasurer from 1930. Chairman of St. Thomas' (Exeter) District Council and Chairman of St. Thomas' Guardians' Committee. Member of the Devon County Council and of the Devon Standing Joint Committee; Treasurer of the Board of Finance of Diocese of Exeter to July 1930, vice-Chairman from July 1930; Treasurer of the East Devon Hunt, and of sundry other institutions. Chairman of the Devon and Exeter Dispensary, 1909, of the West of England Institution for the Blind, 1912, and of the Devon and Exeter Institution, 1929. A Justice of the Peace for Devon from 1922. A Trustee of St. Michael's Home, Cheddar. Member of the Carlton Club from 1913.

2nd Lieut. North Somerset Yeomanry, 1895; Lieut., December 1898; Captain 1904; Major, June 1912. Coronation Medal of King Edward VII, 1903. Territorial Decoration, 1915. In the Great War served with the North Somerset Yeo., 4 August 1914 to Mar. 1917, and was in France with them 2 November 1914 to May 1915, the Regt. being part of the 6th Cavalry Brig, of 3rd Cav. Division under Major General The Hon. Julian Byng now Lord Byng of Vimy. In command of 3rd N. Som. Yeo. at Bath May 1915-March 1917; on Quarter Master General's Staff of Southern Command at Salisbury May 1917 to end of the War. Medals of the War, 1914 Star, British War Medal, Allies' (Victory) Medal.

He was a proficient carpenter, electrician and mechanic, turning articles in ivory and wood on his lathe, an art he had learned from his father. In 1923 he made a gavel and block to be used by the Chairman of the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital Committee. The gavel is still in the possession of the Hospital and is stamped "A. H. Gibbs 1923, R.D.E.H. Fecit". During the Second World War he became an Air-raid Warden and was given the Defence Medal at the end of the war.
Clyst St. George Church. (Extract from A. Hubert Gibbs obituary in the Express and Echo and Western Morning News, 31 July 1957). "After the destruction of the church by enemy action in 1940, it was rebuilt thanks to his untiring energy and patience, in a style which has won warm approval by its beauty and comfort. In this cause he obtained grants and raised funds, chose the best architect and builders available, and selected the most suitable designs for the lovely east and west windows. He was also the prime mover in the erection of the Parish Hall, of which he was a trustee and the first chairman." It is believed that this church was the first in England to be destroyed in the Second World War (by incendiaries). With his own hands he salvaged the two oldest Gibbs' memorials: to John Gibbe, 1592 (brass); and to George Gibbs (stone), 1692, which he put in a wheelbarrow and reassembled in a cow shed at Pytte, where it remained until the rebuilding in 1950, when it was put together again (not quite complete) by Herbert Read. The church was re-dedicated on 4 July 1952. Architects: Nicholson & Rushton, Lincolns Inn; Builders, Dart & Francis Ltd., Crediton; Windows (east and west), by Hugh Easton, London. Bells: recast and rehung by Hughes & Stainbank of Whitechapel, London.
The Reredos and Bosses were the gift of William Otter Gibbs from Barrow Court oratory.

There is a memorial to Hubert, Mercy and their son Evan in the form of altar rails by Herbert Read, 1948, and altar rail gates by Herbert Read (son) 1961.

Portraits: Pastel by H.M. Heaton last in possession of his son Antony; one by E. Clifford (1878) was in possession of Lord Wraxall in 1930.

Antony married Mary Mercy Llewellyn on 18 Oct 1899 in Burrington, Devon. Mary (daughter of Evan Henry Llewellyn and Mary Blanche Somers) was born on 26 Jun 1875 in Langford Court, Burrington, Somerset; died on 16 Jan 1956 in Pytte, Clyst St George, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: May 1876, Paddington, London
• Residence: 1881, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1901, Paddington, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Thornbury, Gloucestershire

Notes:

1st daughter of Antony Gibbs of Tyntesfield. Baptised in May 1876 at St. Michael's, Paddington.

Portrait, aged 6 (1882) by W. Walker; Portrait (1878) by E. Clifford, see Lord Wraxall, both last in possession of Lord Wraxall.

Albinia married Richard Alexander Bennett on 2 Dec 1899 in Wraxall, Somerset. Richard (son of Rev. Alexander Sykes Bennett and Jessie Payne) was born on 12 Dec 1872 in Bournemouth; died on 16 Jul 1951. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 21 Dec 1877, Paddington, London
• Residence: 1881, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, Wraxall, Somerset

Notes:

7th Hussars. 3rd son of Antony Gibbs of Tyntesfield. Baptised at St. Michael's, Paddington. Educated at Eton College 1891-6; matric. Oxford (Magdalen College) 1896; 3rd class law and BA 1899.

2nd Lieut. 7th Hussars, February, and Lieut., November 1900. In the South African (Boer) War, served 1901-2 with 7th Hussars in operations in Cape Colony, Orange River Colony and Transvaal; awarded Queen's Medal, with five clasps. Captain, Ap. 1907. Seconded to be Brigade Major of Eastern Mounted Brigade (Territorial) March 1913-March 1916. In the Great War, served in Gallipoli (Anzac) October-December 1915: in Egypt December 1915-October 1916 (Staff Officer, Western Defence Force; Brigade Major, Coastal Area): in France, October-December 1917, as Major, 12th Battalion Yorkshire Regt.; in Mesopotamia Ap. 1918-Ap. 1919 with 7th Hussars and in command of them from September 1918. Wounded at Shergat, nr. Mosul, 28 October 1918. Awarded 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Allies' (Victory) War Medal: Croix de Guerre (avec palme): mentioned twice in despatches (1916 and 1919). Lieut.-Colonel 1919, and in the Regular Army Reserve of Officers from 1920. One of the Exons of the King's Bodyguard of Yeomen of the Guard from 1926.

Portrait: In Yeoman of the Guard's Uniform last in possn. of his wife Ruby Mable Brassey.

Birth:
16 Hyde Park Gardens

Died:
Severalls

William married Ruby Mabel Brassey on 22 Jul 1911 in Knightsbridge, London. Ruby (daughter of Henry Arthur Brassey and Anna Harriet Stevenson) was born on 10 Oct 1887 in Preston Hall, Kent; died on 30 Jun 1981. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 28 Jan 1880, Paddington, London
• Residence: 1891, Wraxall, Somerset; Age: 11; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Residence: 1901, Paddington, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Windsor, Berkshire

Notes:

Baptised 28 January 1880 at St. Michael's, Paddington. Educated at Eton College, 1892-7 and Royal Military college, Sandhurst, 1898-9. Died at Estcourt Grange, Gloucestershire, 11th and buried 13th October at Shipton Moyne, Glos. Memorial there.

2nd Lieut. Coldstream Guards, January 1900. Lieut. November 1901. Served in the South African (Boer) War in operations in Cape Colony July 1901 to May 1902, and was awarded the Queen's medal with three clasps. Adjutant 3rd Battalion Coldstream Gds., Ap. 1904-Ap. 1907. Aide-de-Camp to the Viceroy of India (Earl of Minto) Sep. 1907-June 1910. Captain January 1910.

Acting A.D.C. to Field Marshal Lord Kitchener at the Coronation of King George V, 1911.

In the Great War he served in France and Belgium in 1914. Captured at Gheluvelt 29 October 1914, he was kept a prisoner of war at Stralsund, Heidelburg, Holzminden, Freiberg, etc., in Germany, was transferred to and interned in Holland, Feb., 1918, and was released 12 Jan. 1919. Awarded Military Cross 1920, 1914 Star, British War Medal, Allies' (Victory) Medal. Major 1915, Lieut. Colonel Ap. 1919, Col. Oct. 1924. Commanded 1st Battalion Coldstream Gds., 1920-21. Commanded 129th (S. Wessex) Infantry Brigade (Territorial) 1928-30. In command of Coldstream Guards Regt. and Regtl. District from Aug. 1930.

Lived from 1927 at Estcourt Grange, Tetbury, Glos. Portrait of himself (as a Russian) and one of his wife (with four dogs) last in possession of David Evelyn Gibbs.

Birth:
16 Hyde Park Gardens

Died:
Estcourt Grange

John married Her Serene Highness Helena Frances Augusta Cambridge, Princess of Teck on 2 Sep 1919 in Windsor, Berkshire. Helena (daughter of 1st Marquess of Cambridge, Duke of Teck, Adolphus Charles Alexander Albert Edward George Philip Louis Ladislaus and Marchioness of Cambridge Margaret Evelyn Grosvernor) was born on 23 Oct 1899 in Grosvenor House,Westminster,London,England; died on 22 Dec 1969 in Badmington, Gloucestershire; was buried in Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 16 Oct 1881, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Acaster Malbis and Bishopthorpe, Yorkshire-East Riding, England; Age: 28; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife
• Residence: 1952, Chelsea, London

Notes:

In the Great War she worked in 1916 in the Nunthorpe Hospital, York, as member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment of the Red Cross Society. In 1930 was on the Archbishop of Canterbury's committee for entertaining the Bishops attending the Lambeth Conference. From 1930 was Hostess for the Girls' Diocesan Association at many of their week-ends over the following years. While at Windsor became Chairman of the Townswomen's Guild. During the Second World War worked with the Red Cross 'Parcels for Prisoners of War', and developed a fellowship of relatives and friends of prisoners of war with A.S.C. in Windsor.

Anstice married Rev. Canon Arthur Stafford Crawley on 16 Jun 1903 in Wraxall, Somerset. Arthur (son of George Baden Crawley and Eliza Inez Hulbert) was born on 18 Oct 1876 in Tressady, Sutherland, Scotland; died on 8 Oct 1948 in Clewer, Berkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Santa Marta, San German, Puerto Rico, USA
• Departure: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; Bombay
• Destination: Morocco
• Baptism: 15 May 1887, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, Wraxall, Somerset
• Arrival: 27 Apr 1911, New York, USA
• Departure: 28 Mar 1929, London
• Arrival: 26 Apr 1929, London

Notes:

Her husband's first cousin, 3rd daughter of Antony Gibbs of Tyntesfield. Baptised 15 May 1887 at Wraxall, Somerset.

Assistant Commandant of Red Cross Hospital
Chippenham, 1917-18. On the Rural District Council of Long Ashton, Somerset, from 1925; on the Board of Guardians of same, 1925-30; Vice-Chairman of Guardians Area Committee from 1930. Member of Somerset County Nursing Assn. since 1929; on the Exec. Committee of Somerset Federation of Women's Institutes from 1924 (Vice-Chairman, 1929-30); a Trustee of St. Michael's Home aforesaid from 1929; member of Council of St. Monica Home of Rest afsd. President of the Clevedon Branch of Somerset Welfare of Women and Girls.

Travelled round the world, 1910; S. America, 1911; India and Canada, 1912.

1938 First County Commandant A.T.S. for Somerset. During the Second World War, Barrow Court became a convalescent hospital for soldiers (1940) under the Red Cross and she was the Commandant. In 1947 Barrow Court was let to the combined Dioceses of Bath and Wells, Gloucester and Bristol, as an adjunct of Fishponds St. Matthias' Diocesan Training College for church school teachers, and she and her husband bought Attadale in Wester Ross, where they lived until 1952, and thereafter at South Cerney, Glos.

After her husband's death in 1960, she moved to Sheldon Manor and lived in the converted outbuildings.

Portraits: min. by Cosway Co. (1911); oil (1930) by T. Binney Gibbs, both last in possession of her son Major Antony Gibbs

Birth:
Charlton

Janet married Lieut. Colonel William Otter Gibbs on 23 Feb 1915 in St. Michael's, Star Street, Paddington. William (son of Henry Martin Gibbs, High Sheriff, Somerset and Emily Anna Otter) was born on 13 Sep 1883 in Clifton, Gloucestershire; died on 22 Mar 1960; was buried in Mar 1960 in Barrow Gurney, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Shanghai, China
• Baptism: 22 Jan 1890, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Windsor, Berkshire
• Arrival: 8 Mar 1928, San Francisco, California, USA
• Residence: 1931, St Marylebone, London

Notes:

7th son of Antony Gibbs of Tyntesfield. Baptised 22 January 1890 at Wraxall, Somerset. Educated at Eton College 1902-8. Buried at Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire.

2nd Lieut. Somerset Light Infantry 1908; 2nd Lieut. Coldstream Guards December 1910, Lieut. July 1913. Coronation medal of King George V, 1911. In the Great War: Served in France, August 1914 till 1919. Adjutant, 2nd Battalion Coldstream Gds., November 1914-April 1916. Temporary Captain December 1914-July 1915. Captain July 1915. Staff Captain 1st Guards Brigade April-November 1916. Acting Lieut.-Col. in command of 2nd Battn. Coldstream Gds. November 1916-March 1917. Acting Major March-May 1917 and December 1917 to February 1918. General Staff Officer (3rd Grade) Guards Division, February to April 1918. Brigade Major 140th Infantry Brigade April 1918 to February 1919. General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (Intelligence) in British section of the Supreme War Council at Versailles February to June, 1919. Military Cross 1916 and bar 1917. Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, 1918. Mentioned four times in Despatches. Awarded 1914 Star, British War Medal, Allies' (Victory) Medal. After the War Adjutant 3rd Battn. Coldstream Gds. June to November 1919. General Staff Officer, 2nd grade, London District, December 1921 to August 1922. Aide de Camp to Lord Rawlinson, the Commander-in-Chief in India, November 1922 to March 1925, and awarded the North West Frontier Medal and one clasp in the Waziristan campaign. Second in command of 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards when part of the Shanghai Defence Force, 1927-28. Commanded the British troops in Paris for Marshal Foch's Funeral, 1929. Lieut. Colonel December 1930, in command of 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards until 1934. A.A.G. War Office, 1934-38; retired pay 1938; Brigadier i/c Administration, London District 1939-45; reverted to retired pay 1945; recalled War Office in connection with Victory March, January-July 1946; reverted to retired pay 1946. Jubilee Medal 1937. Coronation Medal 1953 Coronation. Gentleman at Arms Her Majesty's Bodyguard.

Portrait by Marientrau, at Braishfield.

Lancelot married Marjory Florence Maxwell on 10 Jul 1929 in Westminster, London. Marjory (daughter of Sir Arthur Kenis Maxwell, Baron Farnham and Aileen Selina Purdon Coote) was born on 24 Apr 1906 in Dublin, Ireland; died on 5 May 1939. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lancelot married Diana Primrose Quilter on 25 Feb 1942 in Westminster, London, and was divorced in 1945. Diana (daughter of Percival Cuthbert Quilter and Gladys Clare Alice Tudway) was born on 9 Jan 1916 in St George Hanover Square, London; died on 4 Aug 2011 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 31 1901, Sholden, Kent; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Baptism: 15 Apr 1868, England
• Residence: 2 Apr 1871, Wraxall, Somerset; Relation to Head of House: Grandson
• Residence: 1881, Mortlake, Surrey
• Residence: 5 Apr 1891, London; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Departure: Mar 1897, South Africa
• Arrival: 11 May 1897, England
• Residence: 1901, Sholden, Kent; Age: 33; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Residence: 2 1911, Henlow Grange, Henlow, Bedfordshire

Notes:

Educated at Winchester College, 1882-3; matric. at Oxford (Christ Church) 1887, BA and 3 Cl. History 1891. Died at his flat in London 2nd and was buried 6 March 1926 at Henlow, Bedfordshire where was his residence (Henlow Grange) since 1908. Memorial Inscription in Henlow churchyard. Will dated 15 March 1924, proved 23 July 1926.

Partner in Thomson Hankey and Co. merchants in the City of London, 1896-1926, and head of the firm for some years up to his death.

Director of the Indemnity Assurance Corporation, 1900-26 (chairman 1925-26). He had two sons and a daughter; his eldest son Christopher William Gurney was a partner in Thomson Hankey & Co. until his death. Christopher married Joan Doris Grenfell (see Burke's Peerage}, who was active in Women's Institutes and W.R.V.S. during World War II.

They had two sons and a daughter; their eldest son Timothy was a Director of Thomson Hankey & Co. from 1947-76; their second son Jeremy was an Underwriting Agent in Price Forbes, Insurance Brokers; and their daughter Gillian married and emigrated with her husband to Ontario, Canadain 1948 (living 1980). Both sons are married and living.

Cyril Gurney's daughter Alice was active in Women's Institute and Village Produce Association and died unmarried in 1969; his second son, John, was a student Land Agent when he died (1924).

Cyril married Margaret Evelyn Trotter in 1894 in St. Peter's, Eaton Square, Westminster, London. Margaret (daughter of William Trotter and Mary Isabel Davies) was born in Apr 1869 in St George Hanover Square, London; died on 4 Jan 1958 in 41 Sydney Building, Bath, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 19 Sep 1883, Gloucestershire

Notes:

Baptised 19 September 1883 at St. Paul's, Clifton. Educated at Eton College 1896-1901 (Miss Evans' house) and Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1901-2. Buried at Barrow Gurney. Memorial Inscription there.

2nd Lieut. 10th Prince of Wales' Own Hussars, November 1902; Lieut., June 1904; Capt., October 1907; Major, February 1915. Retired, Sep. 1919, with rank of Lieut. Col. joining the Reserve of Officers. Brevet Col, Mar. 1932. In command of 5th Battalion The Somerset Light Infantry from 1928. Member of the Somerset Territorial Association from 1928. Was with his Regiment in India at Mhow, 1903-6, at Rawal Pindi,1906-12. In India played for his Regiment in the winning team in inter-regimental polo matches, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1912. Durbar Medal (1912). Attached to the Egyptian Army, June 1912-June1914 (Khor Shambat and Shendi).

In the Great War was in operations in France and Belgium, 1914-18; he embarked for France 11 Aug. 1914, attached to Headquarters 3rd Cavalry Brigade; joined 18th Hussars 3 Sep., and rejoined 10th Hussars, 20 October Wounded 1 Nov. at the 1st Battle of Ypres near Hooge, he rejoined from England, 12 March 1915. Wounded again at the 2nd Battle of Ypres near Potije, he returned to France 19 August 1915. At various times, 1915-18, was Acting Lieut. Col. 10th Hussars. Seconded to Tank Corps, 9 June 1918. Slightly wounded again, 23 August 1918, but remained on duty. His war service ended with a fourth wound suffered 17 October l918 near Vaud Audigny. (Mentioned in Despatches, Gazette, May 1917. Medals, 1914 Star; British War Medal; Allies' (Victory) Medal.

Member of Somerset County Council from 1922. Justice of the Peace for Somerset (Long Ashton petty sessional division) from 1924. Succeeded his father as owner of the Manor and Advowson of Barrow Gurney. Fellow of SS. Mary and Nicolas afsd. 1924-30. Fellow of SS. Mary and Andrew afsd. from 1927. A Trustee of St. Michael's Home afsd. (Chairman from 1928). An original member (1923) of the Council of St. Monica's Home of Rest at Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol. Deputy Lieut. Somerset, 1935; High Sheriff, 1936; Hon. Col. 5th Battalion Somerset L.I. 1936; A.D.C. to The King, 1938.

His residences since marriage: 6 Evelyn Gardens, Kensington, 1915; Down Ampney House, Glos., 1916-17; Sheldon Manor, Chippenham, Wilts., 1917-23 (still owned); The Home Farm, Barrow Gurney, 1923-28; Barrow Court from 1928.

Portraits: by J. C. Horsley, R.A. (1886); by G. Anderson (1905); by Francis Crawley-Boevey; min. by Miss Hall; oil by T. Binney Gibbs (1930) no relation, last all in possession of his son Martin Antony Gibbs, except the one by Anderson (destroyed).

Birth:
43 Alma Road

William married Janet Blanche Gibbs on 23 Feb 1915 in St. Michael's, Star Street, Paddington. Janet (daughter of Antony Gibbs, of Tyntesfield and Janet Louisa Merivale) was born on 15 Apr 1887 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset; died on 4 Jun 1974 in Chippenham, Wiltshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 25 Dec 1885, Barrow Gurney, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, London
• Residence: 1901, Eton, Buckinghamshire; Boarder

Notes:

3rd son of Henry Martin Gibbs of Barrow Court. Baptised 25 December 1885 at Barrow Gurney. Educated at Eton College 1899-1904; matric. Oxford (Magdalen College) October 1906; BA 1909, MA 1921. A pupil of Budd Johnson & Jecks, Solicitors in City of London 1909-11. A student at Wells Theological College 1911-12 and at Farnham Theological College 1912.

Deacon 1913; Priest 1914 (Southwark); Curate of Lambeth 1913-16 and 1919-20; Rector of Walkern, Herts, from 1922. In the Great War was a Chaplain to the Military Forces 1916-19 (in France, Spring to Nov. 1916 and Oct. 1917 to Oct. 1918; in North Russia two months in the summer of 1919). Wounded twice (16 Nov. 1916, near Beaumont Hamel; in Oct. 1918, near Caudry). Military Cross and bar to the same (both earned in 1918). British War Medal, Allies (Victory) Medal. Hon. Chaplain to the Forces 1921.

Portraits: by F. Crawley-Boevey (1895); by Ogilvie (1916); and a miniature (artist unknown); (last 2 in possession of his son Major Henry Francis Gibbs).

Francis married Agnes Mary Denise Ruddock on 27 Jun 1923 in Ardeley, Hertfordshire. Agnes (daughter of Mark Ernest Ruddock, (Rev) and Annie Josphine Scott) was born on 9 Oct 1893 in Ardeley, Hertfordshire; died on 24 Jul 1978 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire; was buried in Jul 1978 in Ampney St Peter, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Liverpool, Lancashire
• Baptism: 28 Dec 1889, Paddington, London; St Michael's
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Gloucestershire
• Arrival: 13 May 1912, New York, USA

Notes:

5th son of Henry Martin Gibbs of Barrow Court. Baptised 28 December 1889 at St. Michael's, Paddington. Educated at Eton College 1902-8 ad at Cirencester Agricultural College 1909-10.

He qualified as an Associate of the Surveyors' Institution, 1910, and was learning land agency, 1911-12. A clerk in Vivian Gray & Co., stockbrokers, in the City of London, 1912-14; member of the London Stock Exchange from 1914.

After the Great War he rejoined Vivian Gray & Co., but from 1919-23 his home was at Gatwicke Hall, Barrow Gurney, where he was working his father's Home Farm on his own account. Partner in Vivian Gray & Co. from 1922. 2nd Lieut., North Somerset Yeomanry, Jan. 1910; Lieut., Aug. 1914; Capt. May 1915. Territorial Decoration, 1920. Retired from Territ. Army, 1928. Served 1914-18 in the Great War in France and Belgium (1914 Star, British War Medal, and Allies' (Victory) Medal). Served in North Somerset Yeomanry in the Second World War.

A Trustee of St. Michael's Home, Cheddar from 1918. Resided at 7 Tite Street, Chelsea, 1923-25; The Hyde, Hatfield, Herts, 1925-27; Chestnut Farm, Acton Turville, Glos., 1927-28; from 1928 at Ruckley, Easton Grey, Malmesbury; after the war at The Cottage, Badminton and finally at Park Leaze, Ewen, Cirencester.

Portrait as a boy by F. Crawley-Boevey at Sheldon Manor in possession of Martin Gibbs and another in uniform by Ogilvie with his son Martin St. John Valentine Gibbs, together with a portrait of Margaret Olivia by L. Trapp last in possession of his son Martin St. John Valentine Gibbs.

Birth:
16 Hyde Park Gardens,

Guy married Margaret Olivia St. John on 6 Aug 1914 in Barrow Gurney, Somerset. Margaret (daughter of Henry Percy St John and Maude Louise Glyn) was born on 3 Jun 1890 in Westminster, London; died on 29 Sep 1964 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire; was buried in Barrow Gurney, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 4 Aug 1891, Barrow Gurney, Somerset
• Residence: 1901, Down Ampney, Gloucestershire; Relation to Head of House: Son
• 1911 Census: 2 Apr 1911, Down Ampney, Gloucestershire; Age: 19; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son

Notes:

6th son of Henry Martin Gibbs. Baptised 4 August 1891 at Barrow Gurney. Educated at Eton College, 1904-9; matric. Oxford (Magdalen College) October 1910.

Entered Antony Gibbs & Sons, 1912; joined Gibbs & Co., Chile, 1914, but returned on outbreak of the Great War. Re-entered A. Gibbs & Sons, 1919, and joined Gibbs, Bright & Co., Australia in the same year; resigned in 1923. Partner from 1928 in Lamb & Gold, stockjobbers in the City of London. 2nd Lieut. North Somerset Yeomanry (Territ.), Oct. 1912; Lieut., 1915; Captain, 1916; Retired, 1919. In the Great War served in France with N. Som. Yeo., Sept. 1914 to May 1915; and August 1916 to April 1918; and with the 7th Dragoon Guards, April 1918, till end of the War. Despatches, 14 January 1915; 1914 Star, British War Medal, Allies' (Victory) Medal. He was a Trustee of St. Michael's Home, in Cheddar, and Treasurer of St. Peter's Home, Kilburn. In the Second World War he was a Lt. Col. in the Military Police in India.
Residences: Bush Hall, Hatfield, Herts., 1924-28; Benhay, Little Gaddesden, Herts., from 1928; later at Church Farm, South Marston and The Manor House at Woodmancote.

Portraits: by G. Anderson (1900); by Ogilvie (1915); by F. Crawley-Boevey at Sheldon Manor last in possession Martin A. Gibbs; and a min. by Miss Hall; all four were in possn. of his brother William in 1932.

Ralph married Dorothy Elizabeth Houldsworth on 5 Aug 1915 in St Saviour, Chelsea, London. Dorothy (daughter of William Thomas Houldsworth, Rev. and Eulalie Venables) was born on 13 Feb 1894 in 1 Mansfield Street, St Marylebone, London; died on 9 Mar 1951 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. [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]

Lionel married Elizabeth Sonia Snagge on 1 Nov 1933 in Long Ashton, Somerset. Elizabeth (daughter of Harold Edward Snagge and Inez Alfreda Lubbock) was born in 3 1910 in Kensington, London; died on 30 Oct 1959 in Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 2 Dec 1894, Down Ampney, Gloucestershire
• Residence: 1901, Down Ampney, Gloucestershire

Notes:

2nd daughter of Henry Martin Gibbs of Barrow Court. Baptised 2 December 1894 in the parish church at Down Ampney.

In the Great War she worked in the kitchens of two hospitals, and, for some months from January 1919, in the American Young Men's Christian Assn. at Aix les Bains, Min. by Miss Hall last in possession of her son Peter Tremayne Miles.

Memorial service held at Poulton 22 September 1979.

Birth:
Down Ampney House

Mary married Lieut. Colonel Edward William Tremayne Miles, MC on 9 Aug 1923 in Barrow Gurney, Somerset. Edward (son of Lieut. Frederick Tremayne Miles and Anna Coralia Sellar) was born on 25 Jan 1884 in Chelsea, London; died on 22 Sep 1943 in Chippenham, Wiltshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]