George Gibbs, 1st Baron Wraxall
- George Gibbs, 1st Baron Wraxall
George Abraham Gibbs, 1st Baron Wraxall, PC (6 July 1873 - 28 October 1931), was a British Conservative politician.
Educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford Gibbs was the eldest of the seven sons of Major Antony Gibbs and Janet Louisa Merivale, daughter of John Louis Merivale. His grandfather William Gibbs was the younger brother of George Henry Gibbs, the father of Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham, while his great-grandfather Antony Gibbs was the founder of the firm Antony Gibbs and Sons, bankers and merchants.
Career
In 1906 Gibbs was elected Member of Parliament for Bristol West (succeeding Sir Michael Hicks-Beach), a seat he would hold until 1928. He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Colonial Secretary Walter Hume Long (his father-in-law) and as a government whip from 1917 to 1921 in the coalition ministry of David Lloyd George. In 1921 he was appointed Treasurer of the Household, a post he continued to hold also under Bonar Law and Baldwin until 1924 and again from 1924 to 1928. Gibbs was admitted to the Privy Council in 1923 and in 1928 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Wraxall, of Clyst St George in the County of Devon.
Family
Lord Wraxall married firstly Victoria Florence de Burgh Long, daughter of the aforementioned Walter Hume Long. They had three children, one daughter and two sons. Both of the sons died as infants. After his first wife’s death in 1920, Lord Wraxall married secondly, Hon. Ursula Mary Lawley, daughter of Arthur Lawley, 6th Baron Wenlock. They had two sons.
Lord Wraxall died from pneumonia in October 1931, aged 58. He was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son from his second marriage, George Richard Lawley Gibbs.
ee also
*Tyntesfield
*Baron Aldenham
*Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon
External links
* [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?mkey=mw67182 Photograph in the National Portrait Gallery]
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