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Barclays Bank, Saffron Walden. The Gibson family of Saffron Walden owned a brewery, an extensive chain of public houses, a bank and a number of substantial residential properties in the town. [2] As a botanist, Gibson discovered various plants, was made a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1847, and published Flora of Essex. [5]
First two sons were Richard Cornell (1624–1694) and William Cornell (1627–1673). Their son named Thomas Cornell (Jr.) was born October 1627 in Saffron Walden. Thomas Cornell and his family immigrated from England to Boston in 1638, when their son Thomas Cornell (Jr.) would have been age 11.
On his death in 1862, he left £5,000 to build a hospital in Saffron Walden. It was built on London Road and the architect was William Beck, and it opened in September 1866. His son George Stacey Gibson was elected treasurer. Saffron Walden General Hospital closed in 1988 and was converted into offices for Uttlesford District Council. [2]
Saffron Walden Museum, with a glacial erratic and stone coffins displayed in the grounds. Saffron Walden Museum, which was established in 1835 by Saffron Walden Natural History Society, is close to the town's castle. The museum had many benefactors from local families, including the Gibsons, Frys and Tukes.
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Born at the family estate of Saffron Walden, he was the son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, by his second wife, Catherine Knyvet of Charlton, and succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of Suffolk and 2nd Baron Howard de Walden in 1626, along with some other of his father's offices, including the lord-lieutenancy of the counties of Suffolk, Cambridge and Dorset.