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402:, held by The National Archives, Kew, London, PRO 30/9 – accessed from the National Archives (formerly known as The Public Record Office), October 1989. Among other items, this collection of papers contains an array of correspondence and other documents relating to the First and Second Osborne-Gibbes Baronets and their immediate families;
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in 1871 as a clerk. He rose to become the head of the entire department, laying the foundations of the country's modern public education system during his 16-year term in office. (See T.J. Bertram's 1993 biographical article on the Second
Baronet, cited below, for an assessment of his career as
336:. 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 Gibbes, 1st Baronet was a great-grandson. The Gibbes family made their money by harvesting and milling bulk loads of sugarcane, using black
179:. After his parents' death, he was brought up by an uncle in England. After some military service, he took over the sugar plantation in Barbados, where he remained until the abolition of slavery in 1833. He returned to England, but left his home country in 1850 for
308:, and an engraved brass memorial commemorating them and their children can be seen in Bristol's Priory Church of St James. Twelve months before his death, an ailing Henry Gibbes had sent the youngest of his three sons, Philip, to the newly colonised
218:, England, but his birth was registered in Sydney—see the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages, certificate number V1850502 37A/1850.) He was taken to New Zealand by his parents when still a small child and later educated
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but unlike his predecessors, he had never felt comfortable with his aristocratic title, believing that it was an anachronism in a modern democratic society such as New
Zealand's.
127:(1803–1874)—grandson of the 1st Baronet and the orphaned son of Samuel Gibbes, of Barbados, and Sarah Gibbes (née Bishop, of the City of Exeter, Devonshire, England);
270:. The British Listed Buildings' Website states that: "The Gibbes were notorious local insurgents, who maintained a small private army from about 1501 to 1549."
187:. In 1855, he emigrated to New Zealand, where he remained for the rest of his life. He was one of the highest Masons in the country and was a Member of the
348:. Landmarks along the western coastline of Barbados such as Gibbes Beach, Gibbes Bay and the village of Gibbes still commemorate the family's name.
424:, Volume 19, Number 2, by The Heraldry & Genealogical Society of Canberra Inc, Narrabundah, Canberra, Australia, June, 1996, pp. 65–74.
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