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Gibbes was born in St James' Parish, Barbados, on 7 March 1731 and baptised that same year. His parents were Philip Gibbes (died 1763) and his wife Elizabeth Harris. He went back in the male line to Henry Gibbes of Bristol, whose son Philip (died 1648) settled on Barbados, through Philip (died 1697) and Philip (died 1726). [2]
Philip Gibbes was a supporter of the monarchy and a Cavalier by political and religious persuasion. He acquired land on Barbados' west coast and prospered through the propagation of sugarcane . He died at his plantation in St James Parish of a tropical fever in 1648; he had married a woman named Avis and founded an island dynasty: Sir Philip ...
Sir Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs KBE (1 May 1877 – 10 March 1962) was an English journalist and prolific author of books who served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War.
Gibbes is a surname. It may refer to: Bobby Gibbes (1916–2007), Australian fighter ace; ... Sir Philip Gibbes, 1st Baronet (1731–1815), planter on Barbados;
Born in England in 1803 [1] and christened Samuel Osborne Gibbes, he was the grandson of Sir Philip Gibbes, 1st Baronet, by his younger son, Samuel, and Samuel's wife, Sarah Gibbes (née Bishop), of Exeter, Devonshire. He assumed the additional surname of Osborne some years after his inheritance of the title in 1815. [2]
In 1796, he had married, in London, Elizabeth Gibbes (1760–1847), the elder daughter of Sir Philip Gibbes, 1st Baronet, of Springhead, Barbados, by whom he had two sons. He was succeeded by his elder son Charles , Postmaster General in 1858, and subsequently by his grandson Reginald Abbot, 3rd Baron Colchester, on whose death in 1919 the ...
Colchester was the son of Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester, Speaker of the House of Commons, and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Philip Gibbes, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Westminster School and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.
This is a list of civic sheriffs and high sheriffs of the County of the City of Bristol, England.. The office of high sheriff is over 1,000 years old, with its establishment before the Norman Conquest.