Anne Vicary, of Dunkeswell

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 4 Nov 1722, Exeter, Devon

Notes:

Believed to belong to the family of Vicary of Dunkeswell, Devon, but proof lacks other than that papers exist sealed by her husband, and by her sister's husband, Hugh Mallett, with their own arms impaling the Vicary arms, or (after the death of the last of her brothers) bearing them on an escuthcheon of pretence (see G.A.Gibbs's will and a letter of 1793 in Aldenham Genealogical Cols, Vol. A, p.223 and Vol. C,1 p.383; also Gibbs Ped. 1904 edn p.xvii and its Preface of 1903). Her husband's house in Palace Yard, Exeter, continued to be her home till her death. Her first cousin Samuel Munckley was the founder of the Bristol house of business which later became Gibbs Bright & Co.

Birth:
Mint Chapel

Anne married George Abraham Gibbs, of Pytte on 22 Dec 1747 in St Petrock's, Exeter, Devon. George (son of Abraham Gibbs, of Topsham and Mary Moncke) was born in 1718 in Pytte, Clyst St George, Devon; died on 10 Nov 1794 in Clyst St George, Devon; was buried on 17 Nov 1794 in Clyst St George, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

See the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs.

Elizabeth married Dr. Robert Butler Remmett on 26 Mar 1776 in Exeter Cathedral, Exeter, Devon . Robert (son of John Remmett, of Crediton and Anna Gibbs) was born about 1746 in Plymouth, Devon; died in 1822. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Memorial: Hayes, Kent; Memorial Inscription in church and church yard
• Residence: Middle Temple, Middlesex
• Baptism: 12 Nov 1751, Mint Chapel, Exeter
• Residence: 1788, St Giles in the Fields and St George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England
• Residence: 1789, St Giles in the Fields and St George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England
• Title: Feb 1805; Solicitor-General
• Title: 1807; Attorney-General
• Title: Nov 1813; Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer
• Title: Feb 1814; Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
• Residence: 1818, St Giles in the Fields and St George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England
• Will: 6 Oct 1818; Will dated 6 Oct 1818 and proved Mar 1820 in C.P.C.

Notes:

Educated at Exeter Grammar School and (17 March 1764-70) at Eton College (King's scholar there); elected scholar King's College, Cambridge 1770; Craven scholar of the University 1772; Fellow of King's College 1774-84; B.A. 1775; M.A. 1778.

Entered as a student of Lincoln's Inn 24 August 1769. Called to the Bar 26 January 1780. A Lieut. in the Corps "Devil's Own" 1780. A "Special Pleader" for many years. Joined Western Circuit 1783. Recorder of Bristol February 1794. Assistant to Erskine (for the defendants) in the Treason trials in the autumn of 1794, when in honour of their success medals were struck bearing their portraits. King's Counsel 1794 or 5. Solicitor General to the Prince of Wales 1795-9; Attorney General to the Prince 1799-1804. Chief Justice of the court of Session of the County Palatine of Chester July 1804. Member of Parliament for Totnes, Devon, 1804-6. Solicitor General to the Government 12 February 1805-January 1806; knighted 20 February 1805; resigned office on Pitt's death January 1806; Member of Parliament for Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, 18 - 22 April 1806; for Cambridge University May 1807 to May 1812. Attorney General April 1807 - May 1812. Resigned Parliament after the murder of his friend the Premier, and was made a Serjeant-at-law and a Puisne Judge of the Court of Common Pleas May 1812. Chief Baron of the Exchequer 8 November 1813. A Privy Councillor from 30 November 1813. Chief Justice of Common Pleas 24 February 1814 - resigned 5 November 1818. Resigned from offices of Recorder, Common Councillor, and Senior Alderman of Bristol, 1 December 1817. His 'Speech in the case of Dr. R. B. Remmett v. Archer' and 'Speeches in defence of Thomas Hardy and Horne Tooke' (1795) are printed. His successive residences after his marriage were: in Red Lion Square (Holborn); in Bloomsbury Square to 1796; 6 Bloomsbury Place from 1796; 42 Bedford Square from at least 1800; 35 Russell Square from at least 1811; 67 Russell Square from 1814. Also from at least 1802 Hayes Grove on Hayes Common, Kent.

For biographies of him see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J. A. Gibbs (and the Additions to it of 1927), the Dictionary of National Biography, books mentioned in the latter, and books mentioned in Gibbs Pedigree (1904 edition) pp. xix and xx of the Introduction.



History of Parliament website on Vicary Gibbs:
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/gibbs-vicary-1751-1820

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicary_Gibbs

Vicary married Lady Frances Cerjat Kenneth Mackenzie on 8 Jul 1784 in St Marylebone Chapel, London. Frances (daughter of William MacKenzie, Major and Mary Humberston) was born in 1755 in London; died on 1 May 1843 in Hayes, Kent. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Bristol Merchant
• Residence: Bristol, Gloucestershire
• Death: 15 Aug 1818, England

Notes:

He was apprenticed before 1770 to his mother's first cousin, Samuel Munckley (d. 1801), a West India merchant of Bristol, and became partner with him in 1789, the firm being Munckley Gibbs and Richards. From 1802 till April 1818 (when he retired) he was head of the firm, which was styled Gibbs Richards & Gibbs, 1802-8, George Gibbs & Son 1808-18. (Search index for Richards, and Munckley who was half-brother of Sir John Duntze Bart). He was warden for 1777, Master for 1790, of the Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol. A Dissenter till 1814, when he joined the Church of England. Resided in Bristol up to 1807, thereafter in the neighbouring Redland. For his life in more detail see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs. No portraits.

George married Esther Joanna Farr on 16 Oct 1776 in Bristol, Gloucestershire. Esther (daughter of Richard Farr and Joanna Portlock) was born on 25 Oct 1748 in Coombe House, Bristol, Gloucestershire; died on 29 Oct 1787 in Bristol, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Anne Aleyn on 23 Jul 1795 in St Augustine's, Bristol. Anne was born on 11 Jan 1750/51 in Bristol, Gloucestershire; died on 26 Jun 1832; was buried in Redland, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Educated at Exeter Grammar School
• Memorial: Hayes, Middlesex; Monument inscription MI in churchyard at Hayes
• Occupation: Founder of the House of Antony Gibbs & Son of London
• Residence: 14 Dec 1773, Exeter, Devon
• Will: 16 Mar 1816; Will proved in C.P.C.

Notes:

After an apprenticeship in a Spanish business in Exeter he was from 1778 to 1789 a merchant there exporting woollen cloth to Spain and elsewhere; also from 1785 to 1789 a partner in a firm styled Gibbs Granger & Banfill, working a cloth factory at Exwick in the outskirts of Exeter. His father financed him and was also in the Exwick partnership. He was a member 1778 - 1789 of the Incorporation of Tuckers Hall, Exeter; head warden 1782, master 1783.

Bankrupt in 1789 (alike with his father), he went to Madrid and for the next 18 years was engaged in business which centred in Spain. Mainly working as agent for British manufacturers he was at times (from 1783) also exporting Spanish produce as partner in a firm at Malaga styled Juan Pomar Gibbs y Compania. Driven out of Spain by war in 1797 he conducted his business from 1798 to 1801 in Lisbon, but in 1802 became regularly established in Cadiz as a merchant there, till war again forced him away. His last visit to Spain was in 1807.

In 1808 he became one of the Commissioners in London for dealing with Portuguese property sent to England in the war, and in September that year founded, in partnership with his son George Henry, the firm of Antony Gibbs & Son, London, with a branch in Cadiz. The firm became Antony Gibbs & Sons in 1813 on admission of his second son William to the partnership.

He was author of a pamphlet signed "A Merchant," An Appeal to Common Sense on the Bullion Question, published 1810.

After his marriage he and his wife lived in Exeter 1784-6, at Exwick House 1786-9, in Madrid 1789-92. From 1792 to 1808 their home was in Exeter or its neighbourhood (at Cowley 1803-8), but in that period he made ten trips to the Peninsula of an average duration of 12 months each. The family moved to London in 1808 and lived in Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, 1808-9; Denmark Hill, Camberwell, 1809-10; Dulwich Common, 1810-12; 2 Powis Place in the parish of St George the Martyr, Bloomsbury, 1812 onwards.



For a brief summary of the firm Antony Gibbs and Sons see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Gibbs_%26_Sons

Antony married Dorothea Barnetta Hucks on 3 Oct 1784 in Littleham, Devon. Dorothea (daughter of William Hucks and Eleanor Barnett) was born in Dec 1760 in Knaresborough, Yorkshire; died on 24 Feb 1820 in Redland, Gloucestershire; was buried on 10 Mar 1820 in St Mary the Virgin, Hayes, Kent. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
St Thomas's

Anne married Samuel Banfill, (of Exwick House) on 19 Apr 1784 in Exeter, Devon. Samuel was born in 1762; died in 1843 in Exeter, Devon; was buried on 6 Apr 1843 in St Thomas, Exeter, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

For a note of portraits see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J. A. Gibbs, p. 441 and Additions to it of 1922.

Mary married Rev. Charles Crawley on 12 Apr 1784 in Exeter Cathedral, Exeter, Devon. Charles (son of Thomas Crawley and Susanna Lloyd) was born on 25 Apr 1756 in Flaxley, Gloucestershire; died on 4 Jan 1849 in Stowe Nine Churches, Northamptonshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: Exeter, Devon; Mint Chapel

Catherine married Bellett Burroughs in 1816. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Elizabeth Tozer on 8 Jul 1814. Elizabeth was born on 5 Nov 1786 in Devon; died on 10 Jan 1864 in Kensington, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1851, Catsfield, Sussex
• Residence: 1861, Catsfield, Sussex
• Residence: 1871, Catsfield, Sussex

Notes:

Lady Maria Elizabeth Pilkington on marriage.

On marriage she and her husband lived first in Bedford Place, but later in the same year she returned to her parents' house, till 1820 when they were reunited. Portraits: Pastel head by Mrs. Hoare of Bath and drawing by J. Gilbert (1862) in possession of her family (copy of former in possession of Lord Aldenham) in 1932.

Maria married Lieut. General Sir Andrew Pilkington on 9 May 1808 in Hayes, Kent. Andrew (son of Thomas Pilkington and Anne Philips) was born in 1767 in Catsfield Place, Sussex; died on 23 Feb 1853 in Catsfield Place, Sussex; was buried in Catsfield, Sussex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Head of Gibbs Bright & Co
• Baptism: 21 Jan 1780, Bristol, Gloucestershire
• Residence: 1851, Somerton, Somerset; Lodger

Notes:

He was trained in his father's West Indian business in Bristol from 12 years old, partner in it with him 1802 to April 1818 and thereafter head of it till he died in 1863. His partner in Bristol from April 1818 was Robert Bright, and the style of their firm there was Gibbs Son & Bright 1818-39, Gibbs Bright & Co. from 1839 to 1881 when it was absorbed by Antony Gibbs & Sons of London together with its Liverpool Branch (founded 1805) and its Australian Branch (founded 1853). For history of all these firms and their partners see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J. A. Gibbs.

He was Warden for 1804, Master for 1820, of the Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol. With Robert Bright he was on the Bristol Committee which (1832-5) in conjunction with a London Committee, promoted the Great Western Railway Company of which company R. Bright was an original director and vice-chairman 1835-43. He was Patron of the living of Hutton, Somerset, and in his will nominated for it his nephew Rev. Geo. Henry Gibbs. He resided in Stapleton, nr. Bristol, 1802-13; in Redland 1813-20; at Knole Park in Almondsbury, Glos., 1820-8 and, from 1828 till he died, at Belmont in Wraxall, Somerset, a house which he at first leased, but in 1832 bought from the Rev. George Turner Seymour together with a portion of the estate in which it lay. Seymour built Tyntesfield on his remaining (larger) portion and was his own architect. George's diary 1825-60 in 6 vols, and 1 vol. of 1848 in possession of Lord Aldenham. For note of portraits of him see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J. A. Gibbs.

George married Salvina Grant Hendy on 27 May 1802 in Saint Augustine The Less, Bristol, Gloucester. Salvina (daughter of Henry Hendy, Esq. of Barbados and Henrietta Perry) was born in 1780; died on 15 Nov 1809 in Berkeley Square, ?Bristol; was buried in St Augustine's, Bristol. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Harriett Gibbs on 8 Aug 1814 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Harriett (daughter of Antony Gibbs and Dorothea Barnetta Hucks) was born on 8 Oct 1786 in Exeter, Devon; died on 15 Oct 1865 in Wraxall, Somerset; was buried on 20 Oct 1865 in Wraxall, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Partner with his father in Antony Gibbs & Sons, London
• Residence: Bedford Square, Middlesex, England
• Baptism: 26 Sep 1785, St Mary Major, Exeter, Devon

Notes:

Trained in his father's business, from the age of 15 he paid 6 visits of 6 to 10 months each to the Peninsula (Portugal and Spain) between 1801 and 1807. Present in Cadiz at the Spanish revolt against the French in June 1808, he reopened his father's house of business there and remained till 1810. Partner with his father in Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, (and in the Cadiz branch) from the founding of the firm in Sep. 1808. From 1815 till he died he was head of Antony Gibbs & Sons, who, under him and his brother William, opened branches at Gibraltar 1818, Lima 1822, Arequipa and Guayaquil 1823, Valparaiso 1826 (see the History of the Business in the book 'Antony and Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs). A director of the London Assurance Corporation 1822-42. A member of the club 'Nobody's Friends' 1832-42 and of the 'City of London Club' 1840-2. A member of the London Committee which (1832-5), with the Bristol Committee, promoted the Great Western Railway, and an original Director of that Company 1835-42. Between 1819 and 1840 he and his brother William voluntarily completed the payment of those of their father's and grandfather's debts which were still outstanding from their bankruptcy in 1789.

A few months before he died in 1842 he succeeded to most of the properties (for particulars see the book 'Antony and Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs) which his cousins Sarah (died April 1842) and Anne Noyes (died Dec. 1841) had inherited in 1814 from their uncle Robert Hucks of Aldenham, Herts (his mother's 2nd cousin): namely as heir at law to Sarah he received Aldenham House and other estates in Herts, and Middlesex; and under Anne's will, on Sarah's death, estates in Oxon and Berks, and in Lambeth, Surrey. With these properties he became lord of the manors of North Moreton, Berks (sold by his son Henry), Burston, Herts. (sold by his grandson, Alban), and Clifton Hampden, Oxon; and patron and lay rector of the last named. His residence was 2 Powis Place 1817-21, 11 Bedford Square 1821-42 (both in the Borough of Holborn). For note of portraits and sculptures of him see the book 'Antony and Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, p. 435 and the Additions of 1927, to which add that a replica or copy of the portrait by Edmund Gill was in possession of Lord Cullen in 1932, who also had a miniature by Miss Ross (1860) (? founded on a portrait by Gill of 1843); and that a portrait in oils belonged to A. Gibbs and Sons (in 1932) after the min by Ross in Lord Aldenham's possession.

George married Caroline Crawley on 7 Jul 1817 in Stowe-nine-Churches, Upper Stowe, Northamptonshire. Caroline (daughter of Rev. Charles Crawley and Mary Gibbs) was born on 25 Apr 1794 in Clyst St George, Devon; died on 13 Feb 1850 in Wraxall, Somerset; was buried on 21 Feb 1850 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1851, Wraxall, Somerset; Relationship: Wife
• Residence: 1861, Wraxall, Somerset; Residence Age: 72; Relationship: Wife

Notes:

As a widow she continued at Belmont till she died. For note of portraits see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A.Gibbs.

Harriett married George Gibbs, of Belmont on 8 Aug 1814 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. George (son of George Gibbs, of Redland and Esther Joanna Farr) was born on 27 Dec 1779 in Wraxall, Somerset; died on 28 Mar 1863 in Belmont, Wraxall, Somerset; was buried on 4 Apr 1863 in Wraxall, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Head of Antony Gibbs & Sons
• Baptism: 21 Jul 1790, British Embassy, Madrid, Spain
• Residence: 1861, Paddington, London; Relationship: Head
• Residence: 1871, Wraxall, Somerset; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

His baptism in Madrid is recorded in the Register of St. Mary Major, Exeter, see Additions of 1927 in the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, p.XVI (4).

He was employed in Cadiz, Lisbon and England in his father's business 1802-5; in his uncle George's (George Gibbs of Redland) business (Gibbs Richards and Gibbs) in Bristol, 1806-8; in London under his father in the Portuguese Commission 1808-9; in London in Antony Gibbs and Son 1809-12. Partner in Antony Gibbs & Sons 1813-75; resident in Cadiz in charge of their House there 1813-22: head of A. Gibbs & Sons 1843-75 and sole partner 1843-7. During his headship the South American business prospered exceedingly. Member of Lloyds 1812-75.

After marriage his successive residences in London were 13 Hyde Park Street (number since changed) 1840-8, Gloucester Square 1849, Sussex Square 1850, 16 Hyde Park Gardens 1851-75, all in Paddington. He bought the estate and house of Tyntesfield, Wraxall, north Somerset in April 1844 from Reverend George Turner Seymour, at various times (notably 1862-4) greatly altered the house (John Norton one of the architects) and at the end of his life built the beautiful chapel to it (Sir A. W. Blomfield, architect). He added to his property in 1865 the adjoining estate and house called Charlton (in Wraxall parish) buying it from the Kingston family, and in 1870 he reunited Belmont and Tyntesfield, buying Belmont from his nephew George L. M. Gibbs. In Devon he bought back Pytte the ancient home of our family in Clyst St. George from the executors of General Doveton, in 1859, made other purchases in that parish, rebuilt cottages, and amongst other benefactions to the village and church gave a memorial window (1860) to his grandfather (George Abraham Gibbs of Pytte). He also bought from Lord Devon in 1873 an estate in Alphington, nr. Exeter (which extended into Whitestone). At Littlemore, Oxon, he bought in 1872 the house of his cousin and former partner Charles Crawley.

The village school and school-master's house at Clifton Hampden, Oxon, in 1847, and the Church at Flaxley, in Gloucestershire, in 1856 were both built at his cost (the architect being G. Gilbert Scott): so also in 1861 were St. Michael and All Angels Church in Star Street, Paddington, and its vicarage (architect Rhode Hawkins). In Devon, he built in 1868 the Chapel-of-Ease of St. Antony at Cowley in memory of his parents and of his own life there, and at the same time and with the same architect (R. Hawkins) the Church of St. Michael and All Angels and its vicarage in the parish of St. David, Exeter; and in 1872 he enlarged the church at Exwick and in 1874 built its vicarage on the site of the grounds of his father's one time residence Exwick House. Moreover, he contributed largely to the restoration of Exeter and Bristol Cathedrals. The endowments of the livings of Exwick, St. Michael's Exeter, and St. Michael's Paddington, were also gifts from him. He acquired the advowsons of Clyst St. George (1857), Exwick, St. Michael's in Paddington, Stowe-nine-churches, North Newton in Somerset, and Otterbourne in Hampshire (the latter because of its connection with Rev. John Keble). He founded in 1859 at Brixham, Devon, a Mission to Seamen of ships sheltering in Torbay, and in 1860 there the British Seamen's Orphan Boys' Home for the Western Counties, his interest in that parish being due to his temporary tenancy of Berryhead House there, the home of Rev. John Hogg.

Of all his gifts the most famous was the chapel of Keble College Oxford. He offered it to the College in 1872 (on the suggestion of his friend Sir John Taylor Coleridge), and himself laid the foundation stone on St. Mark's Day (25 April) 1873. He died in 1875, and his son Antony formally presented it at the opening service on St. Mark's Day 1876, conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The same day Lord Salisbury (Chancellor of the University) laid the foundation stone of the block of buildings given to the College by William's sons Antony and Martin. W. Butterfield was architect both of chapel and block, as of the rest of the College.

William was an original (1832) member of the City of London Club and a member of the Athenaeum Club. Memorial Inscription in Wraxall church and churchyard at Tyntesfield chapel, Barrow Court chapel, Flaxley church, St. Michael's Paddington (rose window erected by the parish in his memory), St. Michael's Exeter, Keble College Chapel, Cowley chapel, Exwick chapel and St. Martin's Brighton.

For his life in detail up to 1824 and for some particulars as to his later years see book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J. A. Gibbs. See also a booklet 'In memory of William Gibbs' (privileged printing Rivingtons, 1875) containing (inter alia) an article on his life and character by E.M.Goulburn, Dean of Norwich, reprinted from The Guardian newspaper.

For portraits and scultpures of him see Gibbs Pedigree (1904) p.16 and list in 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, p.435. In the latter G. Richmond as artist of the posthumous portrait at Keble College is an error for Sir William B. Richmond, R.A. This portrait is wrongly stated to be after Boxall in 'Catalogue of Portraits in Oxford Colleges' by Mrs. Poole, Vol. III, part II, 1925. The portrait in the list in the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs by 'artist unkown' in possession of John A. Gibbs was by E. Gill and has since been destroyed. Portraits not in the lists are, one by Edward Opie, which was in possession of Lord Wraxall, and a copy in A. Gibbs and Sons' possession of the one of the Portraits by Boxall which is engraved by Cousins.



More information available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibbs_(businessman)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - William Gibbs https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/89656

William married Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey on 1 Aug 1839 in Flaxley, Gloucestershire. Matilda (daughter of Sir Thomas Crawley-Boevey, 3rd Bart. of Flaxley and Mary Albinia Page) was born on 17 Dec 1817 in Eastgate street, Gloucester; died on 22 Sep 1887 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Deacon, Priest and then Perpetual Curate of Clifton Hampden
• Residence: Oxford, Oxfordshire
• Baptism: 12 Sep 1801, Exeter, Devon
• Residence: 1861, Chelsea, London; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

He was in the employ of Antony Gibbs & Sons 1818-24 (in London 1818-21, Cadiz 1818-2, Gibraltar 1822-3, again in London 1823-4). He was ordained Deacon in 1828, Priest by the Bishop of Chester 8 Aug. 1829. Curate of Howarden, co. Flint, 1828-30, Perpectual Curate of Clifton Hampden, co. Oxon 1830-64 in the new parsonage given by his cousin Anne Noyes (patron of the living) which, from 1905, was again the parsonage, and from c. 1846 in the new parsonage built by his sister-in-law Caroline Gibbs (now the Manor House), Devisee of Belmont, Wraxall, under the will of his cousin and brother-in-law George who died 1863. For his life up to 1823 and a few later details see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs.

Portraits: miniature of him by Sir William Ross was in possession of Everilda Gibbs in 1932; a portrait of him with his wife and sister Joanna was known to be in possession of Evelyn Alice Heberden until her death in 1955, but whereabouts unknown in 1980; watercolour in middle age in possession of Alexandra White (2021 - previously George Medley in 1980).



Educated at Mr. Phillip's School, Turnham Green. He graduated from Worcester College, Oxford in 1828 with a B.A. He was the Curate in 1830 at Clifton Hampden, Berkshire.
1851 CENSUS - Visiting relations, ( George & Harriett Gibbs) at "Belmount House" Wraxall, Somerset.
Joseph 49, Emily 47,
1861 CENSUS - Visiting relations, ( George & Harriett Gibbs) at "Belmount House" Wraxall, Somerset.
Joseph 59, Emily 57, Harriett T. 17, Joseph H. 20, George H. 18, & Stanley R. 14.

Occ. Deacon, Priest and then Perpetual Curate of Clifton Hampden until death.

Probate - 5 May 1864. Left under £20,000.

Joseph married Emily Vaughan on 14 Sep 1831 in Llangattock, Breconshire, Wales. Emily (daughter of Rev. Charles Vaughan and Emilia Monck) was born on 14 Aug 1803 in Farnborough, Berkshire; died on 7 Sep 1869 in Kensington, London; was buried on 10 Sep 1869 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Anne Crawley (1st daughter), born 4 August 1785 at Whitestone; married 21 April 1806, her 1st cousin, Rev. John Lloyed Crawley (Boevey), born 1775, died 1850, record of Heyford, Northants, 2nd son of Sir T. Crawley-Boevey; died 2 January 1865 and was buried at Heyford. She had eight sons and three daughters and numerous descendants of hers are still living.

Anne married Rev John Lloyd Crawley-Boevey on 21 Apr 1806. John (son of Sir Thomas Crawley-Boevey, 2nd Baronet of Highgrove and Anne Savage) was born on 21 Feb 1775 in Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire; died on 18 Oct 1850 in Swalchffe, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Charles (1st son), born at Whitestone, Devon, 25 September, 1788; educated at Rugby School (entered 1797); matric Oxford (Univ. College) 26 June 1807; 2nd Cl. Classics School and B.A. 1811; married 14 May 1825 Eliza Catherine, daughter of Abraham Grimes (for which family see the book Antony & Dorothea Gibbs by J.A. Gibbs, p. 377 n6); died 30 September 1871 at his house (now called Lawn Upton and (1931) in the ownership of Lord Wraxall of Chart XVIII) in Littlemore, Oxon, and was buried at Littlemore. He was in Antony Gibbs & Sons 1814-46, and a partner 1820-38 (in Spain for them 1818-19, in Chile and Peru for them 1828-33). A director of the London Assurance Corporation, 1842-65. A member of the Club 'Nobody's Friends' 1813-71. Alternate patron with Oriel College, Oxford, of the living of Littlemore, to the church of which (built in 1835 by his friend, Rev. John H. Newman-Cardinal later) he gave the chancel. For note of portraits of him and his wife, see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs p.441. The eldest child of his only child, Charles Edward, was William Scott Crawley of Charlbury, Oxon. (b. 1858).

Charles married Eliza Katherine Grimes on 14 May 1825 in Churchover, Warwickshire. Eliza (daughter of Abraham Grimes and Mary Cholmley) was born on 4 Jan 1795 in Coton House, Churchover, Warwickshire; died on 11 Nov 1881 in Littlemore, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Elizabeth (4th daughter), born at Stowe 29 July 1791; died 3 January 1884; married 24 September 1811 Rev. George William Daubeny (1784-1860), for whose family see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, pp. 254 and n, and 446, and Burke's 'Landed Gentry' under Daubeny of Cote. She had six sons and three daughters, and numerous descendants of hers are living.

Elizabeth married Rev. George William Daubeny on 23 Sep 1811 in Whissendine, Rutland. George (son of Rev. Charles Daubeny and Elizabeth Barnston) was born on 16 Nov 1784 in Seend House, Seend, Wiltshire; died on 5 Jun 1860 in Seend Green House, Wiltshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Caroline sold the lease of 11 Bedford Square in 1849 and resided at Aldenham House 1846-50. In 1843-6 she built at Clifton Hampden, where her brother in law Joseph Gibbs was Perpetual Curate, a new parsonage to take the place of the old one which Anne Noyes gave in 1832. By a re-exchange in 1905 the former is now the Manor House and the latter has since been demolised.

She also completely restored the church of St. Michael of All Angels there, mainly with money set aside by her husband when he inherited the property, but with contributions added by herself, and her son Henry. G Gilbert Scott was her architect in both cases. The Living was augmented under her Will. See article on Clifton Hampden in the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs pp. 447-50. For her 'Royal Descent' see entry for her father, Rev. Charles Crawley.

For note of portraits of her see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs p. 435, to which add that a copy was in possession of Lord Cullen (in 1932) of Sir William Ross's miniature, done by Ross's daughter under her father's supervision. Caroline was buried at Clifton Hampden. Monumental Inscription in church and church yard there and in Aldenham church. Her Will was printed on 16 July 1950 at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Doctors Commons, London.

Died:
Belmont

Caroline married George Henry Gibbs on 7 Jul 1817 in Stowe-nine-Churches, Upper Stowe, Northamptonshire. George (son of Antony Gibbs and Dorothea Barnetta Hucks) was born on 24 Aug 1785 in Exeter, Devon; died on 21 Aug 1842 in Venice, Venezia, Veneto, Italy; was buried on 27 Dec 1842 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

George Abraham Crawley (2nd son), born at Stowe aforesaid 26 September 1795; educated at Rugby School (entered 1808); married 29 September 1826 Caroline, daughter of David Powell (for whose family see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs p. 377, n6); died at Ambleside 24th and was buried 31 July 1862 in Highgate Cemetry. He was articled in 1812 to Jones & Green, solicitors in London, admitted solicitor 1817, afterwards partner in Pemberton Crawley & Gardener, London, later Crawley Arnold & Co. Marshal to Chief Justice Sir Vicary Gibbs 1815. Many years legal adviser to teh National Society and Treasurer to the Additional Curates Fund. Member 1819-62, Secretary 1833-62, of 'Nobody's Friends'. A spcial memoir of him by G.E.Cokayne is in the book, 'Nobody's Friends' (privileged printed 1885). His home from 1839 onwards was Fitzroy Farm, Highgate, which he built. By his two married sons and four married daughters he has numerous descendants, and one of his grandsons, Canon A. Stafford Crawley, married Anstice Katharine, grand-daughter of William and Matilda Blanche Gibbs, above mentioned.

George married Caroline Powell on 29 Sep 1826 in Loughton, Essex. Caroline was born on 2 Mar 1804 in Bloomsbury, London; died on 17 Dec 1875 in Highgate, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Charlotte (7th daughter), born at Stowe 25 February 1799; married 7 October 1822 her 1st cousin, Rev. William Crawley (1790-1856) (5th son of Sir T. Crawley-Boevey, 2nd baronet), perpetual curate of Flaxley; died 14 December 1878. She had one son and three daughters and numerous descendants of hers are living.

Charlotte married Rev. William Crawley-Boevey on 8 Oct 1822 in Stowe-Nine-Churches, Northamptonshire. William (son of Sir Thomas Crawley-Boevey, 2nd Baronet of Highgrove and Anne Savage) was born on 14 Dec 1790 in Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire; died on 17 Dec 1858. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Christening: 8 Jul 1815, Old Church, Saint Pancras, London

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Sarah Anne Higgs on 28 Aug 1841. Sarah was born in 1824 in Binfield, Berkshire; died on 1 May 1913 in Yorkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She sold Catsfield Place, subject to her life interest. They had three sons, viz., Andrew Burrell Hayley b. 1854, John Newton Hayleyb. 1856, and William Hayley who d. unmarried; and six daughters. For some of their descendants see 'Follett of Culm Davy' and 'Neeve of Mill Park' in Burke's 'Landed Gentry'.

Maria married Rev. Burrel Hayley on 18 Jul 1848 in Trinity Ch, St Marylebone, London. Burrel was born on 24 Feb 1809; died on 22 Feb 1880 in 6 Ulster Terrace, Regents Park, London; was buried in Catsfield, Sussex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She inherited Hayes Grove from her mother. They had two sons, viz., William Frederick Lee, b. 1857, and Richard Kenneth Lee b. 1863; and four daughters. For some of their descendants see 'Lee Grove Hall' in Burke's 'Landed Gentry'; 'Wilson of Eshton Hall' and 'Rose of Rayners' in Burke's Peerage.

Louise married Richard Thomas Lee on 1 Sep 1853 in Catsfield, Sussex. Richard died on 18 Feb 1878. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Title Of Nobility: Baron Aldenham
• Occupation: South American Merchant, Justice of the Peace
• Title: High Sheriff, Hertfordshire
• Baptism: 4 Oct 1819, Northamptonshire
• Residence: 1851, Hampstead, London
• Residence: 1861, St Marylebone, London
• Residence: 1871, St Marylebone, London
• Residence: 1881, London
• Residence: 1891, London

Notes:

Henry Hucks Gibbs of Aldenham and Clifton Hampden. 1st Baron Aldenham (1896). Born at 2 Powis Place, Bloomsbury, Holborn, 31 August and baptised at Stowe-Nine-Churches, 4 October 1819. Educated Rugby 1832-6, matric. at Oxford (Exeter College) 16 February 1837; 3rd Class Classics and BA. 1841. M.A. 1844. Died aged 88 at Aldenham House 13 September and was buried 18 September 1907 at Aldenham. Will was dated 16 (cod. 28) 1906, proved 20 December 1907. Monument in Clifton Hampden churchyard.

Before Rugby he was at Redland, nr. Bristol. On his father's death he succeeded to the estates in and about Clifton Hampden and on his mother's to those in and about Aldenham. He made various changes in them by sales and purchases (see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs), pp. 45-6). Lord of the Manor of Burston (Herts), sometime of that of North Moreton (Berks), and till 1902 of that of Clifton Hampden, which estate (and at that time about 1340 ac. nearly all of Oxon.) he then transferred to his son Alban, and, by purchase in 1877, patron of Aldenham. He augmented, 1901-5, the living of Clifton Hampden by restoring to it the Parsonage of 1832-46 and buying the overlarge one of 1846 for his son Alban's Manor House and he built there the beautiful brick bridge over the Thames in 1864 (designer Gilbert Scott), The Coppice house and the Village Hall. He made extensive alterations in Aldenham House and laid out the famous gardens there, his son Vicary helping largely in developing them. He restored and reseated Aldenham Church, 1882 (architect Sir A. Blomfield) and gave a new choir screen in 1903. In St. Alban's Abbey he restored the High Altar Screen 1884-9 (sculpted by H. Hems), gave the reredos with sculpture representing the Resurrection by Sir Alfred Gilbert and reconstructed the organ. He contributed to the building and endowing of Christ Church, Radlett, 1864, erected sundry buildings and cottages in Aldenham and Elstree, and diverted the public road on the west of Aldenham House.

He was entered at Lincoln's Inn Jan. 1840: Joined Antony Gibbs & Sons in the City of London 1843; a manager thereof 1847; partner 1848; head 1875-1907. Under him the Firm closed their Peru Branch in 1880 (at the time of the Peru-Chile War) and concentrated in Chile, and the next year took over Gibbs Bright and Co. with their English & Australasian Branches, and West Indian business. A director of the Bank of England 1853-1901 (Governor 1875-7). A director of the Mexican Railway Co. 1864-1905; of the Indemnity Mutual Marine Assurance Co. 1869-1906; and sometime of the Colne Valley Co., and of other companies. Member of Lloyds 1855. President of the London Institution in the City of London 1888-94. President of the Bimetallic League from 1881 and of the City of London Conservative Association 1881-1907. Served on Royal Commissions on the Stock Exchange 1877-8, on the City Parochial Charities 1880, on the Depression of trade 1885-6. He and other members of the family founded the London St. James Gazette (Conservative paper) in 1880 and owned it till 1888. Member of Parliament (Conservative) for the City of London 18 April 1891-July 92 when he retired. A commissioner of Lieutenancy for the City of London. Member of the English Church Union from 1862 (a Trustee 1876-1907), on the Council 1886-1907) and vice-pres. of the Herts (West) Branch 1897-1907. On the Council of Keble College, Oxford, 1873-1907. Member of the House of Laymen of Canterbury Convocation 1887-1907 and treasurer sometime to 1907. A Life Member from 1888 of the Corporation of the Church House, Westminster. Governor of Aldenham Grammar School 1881-1907. A Justice of the Peace for Herts. and Middlesex. High Sheriff of Herts. 1884. A Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery 1891-1907. Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society 1859 and of the Society of Antiquaries 1885 (sometime on its Council). President of Guy's Hospital 1880-96.

Created Baron Aldenham 31 Jan. 1896.

Among his books he had the best collection of copies of the 'Book of Common Prayer' in English hands. Author of catologues of his own books and MSS (printed 1876, 1888 and 1890 with supplements to the last 2 in 1898 - all since revised in a new catalogue, see his son Alban): 'Pedigree of the family of Gibbs' with historical introduction, 1st edn. 1890, 2nd edn. 1904: 'The Game of Ombre' 1st edn. 1874, 2nd 1878, 3rd for Roxburghe Club 1902; 'Account of the High Altar Screen in the Cathedral of St. Alban's' 1890: 'A Colloquy on Currency' (Contemp. Review 1889, 2nd edn. separate 1893, 3rd 1894, 4th 1899): various pamphlets on the currency and bimetallism from 1876, including 'The Double Standard' (1881) of which a French edn. 'Le Double Etalon' was published by the Belgian Bimet. Association 1883. Minutes of his evidence before the 'Indian Currency Committee', 1899, are printed in Appendix to their Report. Editor, 1868, of 'The Romance of the Chevalere Assigne' for the Early Eng. Text Soc.; and, for the Roxburghe Club, the 'Life and Martyrdom of St. Katherine of Alexandra, 1884 and the 'Hystorie of the most noble knight Plasidas' 1873. To the latter club he contributed 'The Royal History of the Knight Generides' 1865. He was a member of the Philological Society from 1859 and assisted in the production of the 'New Oxford English Dict. (pub. 1888-1928) edr. Murray and others) from 1857 to 1907, subedited the greater part of letter C and was one of the sub-editors of K (see Prefaces to Vols. I, II, V, and VI, Pt.2).

Member of the Club 'Nobody's Friends' from 1851 (president 1895-1907); of the Roxburghe Club 1863-1907) (treasurer 1878-92, vice pres. 1892-1903, pres. 1903-7); of the Carlton and Athenaeum Clubs.

He lost his right hand September 1864 from a gun accident at Mamhead, Devon, (rented for a season by his uncle William).

He resided at Frognal, Hampstead, 1849-56 (a house with 18 acres, since destroyed, in the North Angle of Finchley Road and Frognal Lane); at St. Dunstan's in Regent's Park, St. Marylebone 1856-1907 (then the Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Home). Aldenham House, which passed to him on his Mother's Death, was let till 1868 but occupied by him 1868-1907.

His Life is in the 'Dictionary of National Biography' Vol II of 2nd supplement, but there are a few mistakes in it some of which are corrected in 'Errata' printed in Vol. III of the supplment. For some other particulars see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs. See also 'Complete Peerage', 2nd edn., I, 104 (note). His diaries 1841-1907 are in possession of his great-grandson, Antony Aldenham.

Portraits: Drawing by J. Slater (1823); miniature by Sir William Ross (1852) in possession of his great grandson Antony Aldenham; oil by G. F. Watts R.A. 1876, (engraved by James Faed) in possession of Christopher Gibbs 2009 and another copy in possession of Vicary Gibbs: oil by W.W. Ouless R.A., full length; oil by T.C. Gotch; chalk (with his son Alban) by E.U. Eddis (1860). Oil by Watts (1896) in possion of VIII; replica of the Gotch in possession of his grandson Andrew Antony; but three-quarter length in possession of A. Gibbs & Sons. Copy of Ross' miniature by Ross's daughter, and crayon head by her in possession of Lord Cullen.

Standing monument and steps to his memory in Clifton Hampden churchyard by Walter Tower (1907).

Henry married Louisa Anne Adams on 6 May 1845 in Thorpe, Surrey. Louisa (daughter of Dr William Adams, LLD and Mary Anne Cokayne) was born on 10 Sep 1818 in Southampton Row, Holborn, London; died on 17 Apr 1897 in St. Dunstan's, Regent's Park, London; was buried on 21 Apr 1897 in Aldenham, Hertfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 12 Apr 1823

Notes:

Antony Gibbs (3rd son) of Merry Hill, Bushey, Herts. Born at 2 Powis Place, aforesaid 20 November 1822. Baptised privately there and received into the Church 12 April 1823 at St. George's, Hart Street, Holborn. Educated at Charterhouse, London, 1838-9, matric. at Oxford (Fellow Commoner of Worcester College) 18 October 1847, B.A. 1851. Died childless at Cheltenham 1st and was buried at Clifton Hampden, 8 December 1856. Will proved December 1856.

In Antony Gibbs and Sons, London, 1839-41 and 1844-7. In the interval, a year with Feldman Bohl and Co., merchants in Hamburg. After taking his Oxford degree, he was in 1852 a student at Wells Theological College. Merry Hill was bought by him from his mother's exors. At his death his brother Henry bought it and in 1878 sold it out of the family. His diaries 1841-2 (2 vols) and 1851-2 are in possession of J.A. Gibbs. (The ownership of these diaries and the possession of other items mentioned in these Notes, refer to the known locations in 1932, current whereabouts are uncertain).

A drawing (as a child) by Jos. Slater in in possession of Lord Aldenham.

Antony married Isabella Margaret Gordon on 7 Dec 1854 in Saint Mary, Great Malvern, Worcester. Isabella (daughter of Charles David Gordon and Marian Phillips) was born in Aug 1823 in Kent; died on 15 Mar 1895 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 May 1832, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Holborn, London
• Residence: 1851, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1871, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1881, St Thomas the Apostle, Exeter, Devon
• Residence: 1891, Clyst St George, Devon
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Speen, Berkshire; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

8th son of George Henry Gibbs of London. Baptised 26 May 1832 at St.-Giles-in-the-Fields, Holborn. Educated at Eton College 1834-35 and Charterhouse, London, 1846-7. Matric at Oxford (Exeter College), 24 Oct. 1849, BA, a 'grand compounder, MA, 1856. Buried 15 January 1914 at Speen. Will proved 17 February 1914.

To add to the facts about education, he went to a school at Brighton about six or seven, and then to one at Clifton, Bristol. After Charterhouse he was, 1848-9, with a tutor, the rector of Poundstock, Cornwall. Joined Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, 1854, but left them 1856 through ill-health, and in every year 1851 to 58 he travelled much abroad, particularly in Spain, and (1857-8) up the Nile and in Palestine. A student at Wells Theological College 1858. Ordained Deacon (Exeter) 1859, Priest 1860. Curate at St. Mary's, Torwood, Torquay, to Rev. J. Hogg 1859-1860, when his health drove him abroad again (Pyrenees) with his wife and first-born. Living at Bradeham, Bucks., 1863-4. Perpetual Curate of Clifton Hampden, Oxon., 1864 (presented by his brother Henry Hucks Gibbs), but resigned work in 1874 from the same cause as before. His parsonage there was what is now the Manor House. Resided at Oaklands, Cleveland, Somerset, 1874-8. Vicar of Exwick, Devon, 1878-85; Rector of Clyst St. George, Devon 1885-97 (presented to both by Antony Gibbs). Retired and resided at Speen House, Berks., 1898-1914. Editor of 'The Registers of Clyst St. George', published 1899 by The Parish Register Society. Member of the Athenauem Club, London, 1863-86. His diaries 1851-1912 (52 vols.), last in possession of John Arthur Gibbs in 1932 are now missing. The volume of his 'Reminiscences' (MS.) from c.1840 to 1910, now in the possession of Denis D. Gibbs.

Portraits: Oil 1858 by E.U. Eddis in possession of Lord Aldenham (1932); oil (c. 1902) by A. Macdonald, last in possession of Alexandra White (2021 - previously George Medley); a posthumous one painted 1921 (from a photo of about 1910) by Ronald Gray in possession of Denis D. Gibbs; a chalk drawing by E.U. Eddis (c. 1859) last in possession of Francis L. Gibbs in 1932; a pastel by E. Havell (1887) last in possession of Francis L. Gibbs in 1932.

Died:
Speen House

John married Isabel Marianne Bright on 3 Jan 1860 in Abbots Leigh, Somerset. Isabel (daughter of Robert Bright and Caroline Tyndall) was born on 1 Mar 1835 in Abbots Leigh, Somerset; died on 22 Mar 1920 in Newbury, Berkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 3 Jun 1833, England
• Residence: 1881, London; Marital Status: Married; Relationship to Head: Wife
• Residence: 1901, London; Age: 67; Relation: Wife

Notes:

3rd and youngest daughter of George Henry Gibbs. Baptised 3 June 1833 at St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Holborn.

Portraits: oil, 3/4, seated, by C. Kay Robertson 1905; crayon head, E. U. Eddis, 1859; last both in possession of her son Lord Cullen. Small water-colour by Alf. H. Taylor 1843; pastel by Edward Havell 1887; both in possession of her son Francis. Watercolour with her brother Robert by Mrs. Gray, 1847, in possession of Alexandra White (2021 - George Medley in 1980).

Buried 15 March 1906, at Putney Vale Cemetery.

Mary married George Edward Adams Cokayne on 2 Dec 1856 in Wraxall, Somerset. George (son of Dr William Adams, LLD and Mary Anne Cokayne) was born on 29 Apr 1825 in Bloomsbury, London; died on 6 Aug 1911 in Exeter House, Roehampton, London; was buried on 9 Aug 1911 in Cemetery, Putney Vale, Surrey. [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:

• Occupation: Clergymans Wife
• Baptism: 1 Jun 1834, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1851, Wraxall, Somerset; Visitor
• Residence: 1861, East Hendred, Berkshire
• Residence: 1871, Abingdon St Helen, Abingdon, Berkshire; Age: 36; Relationship: Wife
• Residence: 1881, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire; Age: 46; Marital Status: Married; Relationship to Head: Wife
• Residence: 1891, Sussex; Visitor
• Residence: 1901, Windlesham, Surrey
• Death: 21 Jan 1903, Chertsey, Surrey

Notes:

Baptised at Clifton Hampden 1 June 1834. Buried 26 January 1902 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there.

Died:
Woodside

Emily married Ven. Archdeacon Alfred Percivall Pott on 5 Jul 1855 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. Alfred (son of Charles Pott and Anna Cox) was born on 30 Sep 1822 in West Norwood, Surrey; died on 28 Feb 1908 in Windlesham, Surrey; was buried on 3 Mar 1908 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 3 Feb 1836, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1851, Wraxall, Somerset; Age: 15; Relationship: Visitor
• Residence: 1861, Great Bookham, Surrey; Relation to Head of House: Son Wife
• Residence: 1871, Great Bookham, Surrey; Relation to Head of House: Wife
• Residence: 1881, Allithwaite, Lancashire; Relation to Head of House: Brother (Head); Marital Status: Married
• Residence: 1901, Chelsea, London; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

2nd daughter of Rev. Joseph Gibbs. Baptised at Clifton Hampden 3 February 1836. Buried 21 March 1907 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard. Will dated 30 July 1900, proved 9 may 1907.

She and her husband removed to Cape Colony in 1889 with those of their children who were not already there and built a house for themselves called Belmont at Ceres. She returned to England (after his death) in 1893.

Dorothea married Rev. George Heberden on 7 Jul 1859 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. George (son of Rev. William Heberden and Elvina Rainier Underwood) was born on 27 Sep 1833 in Great Bookham, Surrey; died on 2 Mar 1891 in Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa; was buried in Mar 1891 in Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Merchant S America
• Baptism: 24 May 1838, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1851, Wiltshire
• Residence: 1871, Edgware, Middlesex; Age: 32; Relationship: Head
• Residence: 1881, London; Age: 42; Marital Status: Married; Relationship to Head: Head

Notes:

Baptised there 24 May 1838. Educated at Marlborough College 1947-53. Died at his residence Deacon's Hill, Elstree, Herts 26 November and was buried 1 December 1881 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there and in Aldenham Church and Memorial Screen in Elstree Chapel. Will proved 1882.

He inherited Belmont, Wraxall, on his father's death in 1865 (subject to his mother's life interest) and sold it in 1870 to his uncle William Gibbs of the adjoining Tyntesfield. Entered Antony Gibbs & Sons 1855 (was in London 1855-59; in William Gibbs & Co., Peru & Chile, 1859-62; in London, as a manager of A. Gibbs & Sons 1863, as a partner 1865-81). Visited New York 1863, Spain and Portugal 1864, Mexico 1869 all on business of the firm. A director of the London Assurance Co. 1865 (deputy Governor 1878, sub-Governor Dec. 1878-81).

A benefactor to Elstree church. Patron of the living of Hutton, Somerset (see VI, n33). Resided at 14 Devonshire Terrace, Paddington, 1864-67; Nutwood, Bickley, Kent, 1867-70; Deacon's Hill, Elstree, Herts., 1870-81; 46 Grosvenor Street, Westminster, 1881. See book In Memoriam mentioned below under entry for his wife Laura Beatrice Hallam and Obituary notice in The Guardian of Dec. 1881.

Portraits (head) in possession of his daughter Beatrice Rhoda Gibbs; 2 posthumous portraits by Hanson Walker (one last in possession of Antony Gibbs & Sons, the other in that of his grandson Lt.-col George Arthur Gibbs; watercolour thought to be of G. L. M. Gibbs last in possession of Alexandra White (2021 - previously George Medley).



1851 CENSUS - Aged 12, at Marlborough College.
1871 CENSUS - Aged 32, living at Deacon's Hill, Edgware.Occ. Merchant. Children, 6 listed, no wife.
1881 CENSUS - Aged 42 , living at 46 Lower Grosvenor St. Occ. Merchant, S. America.
Laura, aged 38, Lillian, aged 15, & Mabel , aged16. Also present, Edmund Elton, 54,
(brother in law), Justice of the Peace - Somerset, and wife Mary, 56.
PROBATE - 1 March 1882, personal estate of £127,333 19s 11d.

( Refer to National Trust guide book for Tyntesfield for family tree.)

Died:
Deacon's Hill

George married Laura Beatrice Elton on 5 Jan 1864 in East Clevedon, Somerset. Laura (daughter of Arthur Hallam Elton, 7th Baronet and Rhoda Susan Willis) was born on 29 Mar 1842 in Rome, Italy; died on 30 Aug 1911 in Bourton, Dorset; was buried on 4 Sep 1911 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Merchant
• Baptism: 22 Dec 1840, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1851, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1861, Wraxall, Somerset; Visitor
• Residence: 1881, Barnstaple, Devon; Son in Law
• Death: 3 Mar 1886, London

Notes:

Baptised 22 December 1840 at Wraxall. Educated at Eton College (King's scholar) 1855-58, matric. at Oxford (Queen's College), entered the Middle Temple 1862. Buried 27 March 1886 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in the churchyard on gravestone of Joseph Gibbs (his father). Will proved 17 May 1886.

At Eton he was in the School cricket XI, 1858, and football "Wall" XI, 1857. He worked for a year on the Devon, and Somerset Railway at Barnstaple, next in Paris and Spain; all in connection with Antony Gibbs and Sons. He was Corresponding Director in Mexico of the Mexican Railway Co. Ltd. 1868-74; on the London Board 1874 till death. He was sometime a director of the Union Bank of London, of the Union Bank of Spain, and of the Mexican Gas Works, and in partnership in the City of London with W. Bailey Hawkins, metalbroker, of Staginhoe Park, Herts.

Birth:
Belmont

Died:
24 Lexham Gardens

Joseph married Mary Rider Budd on 13 Jun 1867 in Barnstaple, Devon. Mary (daughter of Richard Budd and Harriet Cotton Rider) was born on 11 Feb 1848 in Barnstaple, Devon; died on 11 Jan 1924 in Dorchester, Dorset; was buried in Jan 1924 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 Oct 1842, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1861, Wraxall, Somerset; Visitor
• Residence: 1871, Hutton, Somerset
• Residence: 1881, Hutton, Somerset
• Residence: 1891, Hutton, Somerset

Notes:

4th son of Rev. Joseph Gibbs of Clifton Hampden. Baptised 26 October 1842 at Wraxall. Educated at Marlborough College, 1857-9, matric. Oxford (Exeter College), 18 October 1862, BA and student at Cuddesdon Theological College, 1867. Buried at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there and Memorial window in Hutton Church. Will dated 23 August 1874.

Deacon 1867; Priest 1868. Curate of Hambledon, Bucks., 1867-9; Rector of Hutton, Somerset (for which Living he was nominated under the will of his uncle George Gibbs, 1869 till 1895, when he resigned and retired to Oxford.

Birth:
Belmont

George married Mildred Mordaunt on 3 Sep 1868 in Flax Bourton, Somerset. Mildred (daughter of Captain John Mordaunt and Harriet Maria Cumberlege) was born on 17 Sep 1846 in Long Ashton, Somerset; died on 22 Sep 1926 in Painswick, Gloucestershire; was buried in Sep 1926 in Painswick, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 Apr 1844, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1851, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1861, Wraxall, Somerset; Visitor
• Residence: 1871, London; Sister
• Residence: 1881, Surrey
• Residence: 1891, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset
• Residence: 1901, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Cranbrook, Kent

Notes:

3rd daughter of Rev. Joseph Gibbs of Clifton Hampden. Baptised 26 April 1844 at Wraxall. Buried at Adderbury, Oxon, Memorial Inscription there.

Birth:
Belmont

Harriet married Lieut. Colonel James Sparrow Mordaunt on 7 Nov 1872 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. James (son of Captain John Mordaunt and Harriet Maria Cumberlege) was born on 14 Nov 1843 in Flax Bourton, Somerset; died on 19 Dec 1927 in Adderbury, Oxfordshire; was buried in Adderbury, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 28 Aug 1845, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1851, Wraxall, Somerset; Visitor
• Residence: 1871, Abingdon St Helen, Abingdon, Berkshire
• Residence: 1881, London
• Residence: 1891, Hagley, Worcestershire
• Residence: 1901, Hagley, Worcestershire; Age: 55; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, East Budleigh, Devon; Age: 65; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

5th son of Rev. Joseph Gibbs of Clifton Hampden. Baptised 28 August 1845 at Wraxall. Educated at Marlborough College, 1852-62, matric. at Cambridge (Jesus College) October 1865, BA 1870, MA 1876. Student at Cuddesdon Theological College, Oxon, 1868-9. Buried 18 March 1918 at Clyst St. George. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there. Memorial window in Hagley Church, co. Worcester, to him and his sons Beresford and Edward. Will proved London 8 May 1918.

Won the mile race for Cambridge v. Oxford in 1868 in the fastest amateur time then on record (4 min. 28 sec.). Deacon 1869; Priest 1871. Curate of Abingdon, Berks., 1869-73; Vicar of Exwick, nr. Exeter, 1873-8; (presented by Wm. Gibbs; Vicar of Abingdon 1878-84; Rector of Hagley, co. Worcester, 1884-1903; Rector of Clyst St. George, Devon (presented by Antony Gibbs) 1903 to 1911 when he resigned and retired to Temple Hill afsd.

Birth:
Belmont

Died:
Temple Hill

William married Annie Katharina Downall on 6 Feb 1879 in Exwick, Devon. Annie (daughter of Archdeacon John Downall and Katherine Pyndar Turner) was born on 26 Sep 1846 in Wolverley, Worcestershire; died on 11 Dec 1924 in East Budleigh, Devon; was buried on 15 Dec 1924 in Clyst St George, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Born February 17, 1827. His parents were Charles Crawley (of Littlemore) and Eliza Catherine Grimes.

While the family was living in Highgate he attended St Aloysius College during 1841 census
In Oxford he attended Exeter College, matriculated June 4 1846; B.A. 1835; M.A. 1853

War service: Served in the Oxfordshire Militia in Corfu during the Crimean War. Listed as a Lieutenant, June 19, 1854

In 1857 Charles Edward was married firstly to Maria Walter Scott Wilson and there were two children from that marriage: Charles William Scott Crawley (1858-1938) and Margaret Laura Scott Crawley (1860-1938). Maria died in April 1862 and was buried in the Crawley family plot at St. Mary and St. Nicholas Church in Littlemore.

On April 23, 1867 in Abingdon, Berkshire, he married secondly, Mary Ann (Marion) Karop, daughter of George Charles Karop and Mary Ann. She had been the governess to his two children during the illness of his first wife.

1861 Census: 64 East Hill, Wandsworth, London
Charles and his two children are living with his mother-in-law and her already large household (including 8 servants). Maria does not appear in the census, though she is still alive. The staff includes two nurses so perhaps she is already very ill. The census taker has clearly been confused by the complex relationships and has mistakenly included Sophia and Matilda with the Crawley family, but they are actually Wilson family members.

1871 Census: 2 Eliot Hill, Lewisham, London
When the census was conducted on April 2, Charles and Marion were living at 2 Elliot Hill in Lewisham awaiting the birth of their first child, Edward Robert John (Jack) who would be born a few months later on July 25. Also living in the house were Charles' children from his first marriage, Charles (age 13) and Margaret (age 10).

1881 Census: 4 Kensington Hall Terrace, Fulham, London (no longer exists) the family has moved to Fulham. Charles and Marion's second son George (known as Eric) is now 7 years old. Charles Edward and Margaret are both away at the time of the census, and appear as visitors elsewhere.

1891 Census: 65 North End Road, Fulham, London
Charles is shown as a boarder, living separately from his wife and family.

Death and burial
Died 1893, Fulham, London. Buried in the Crawley family plot at St. Mary and St. Nicholas Church in Littlemore.

Charles married Maria Walter Scott Wilson in 1857. Maria was born in Apr 1826 in Wandsworth, Surrey; died in 1862. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Mary Ann Karop on 23 Apr 1867 in Abingdon, Berkshire. Mary was born in 1841 in London; died on 10 Jun 1914. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1851, Flaxley, Gloucestershire

Elizabeth married Martin Hyde Crawley-Boevey, 4th Bt. on 7 Jun 1836 in Walcot, Somerset. Martin (son of Sir Thomas Crawley-Boevey, 3rd Bart. of Flaxley and Mary Albinia Page) was born on 25 May 1812 in Gloucestershire; died on 14 Oct 1862 in Flaxley, Gloucestershire; was buried in Flaxley, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Eliza Inez Hulbert on 6 Aug 1863 in East Farleigh, Kent. Eliza (daughter of Henry Young Hulbert and Eliza Smale) was born on 6 Jan 1841 in Tottenham, Middlesex; died on 29 Jul 1913 in Wheathampstead House, St Albans, Hertfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Louisa Marianne Clutterbuck on 20 Jan 1857 in Long Wittenham, Berkshire. Louisa (daughter of James Charles Clutterbuck and Louisa Capel) was born on 25 Mar 1832 in Watford, Hertfordshire; died on 23 Sep 1905. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]