Henry Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham, Merchant banker, partner and later head of Antony Gibbs & Sons, Governor of the Bank of England, 1875–1877, MP for the City of London, High Sheriff of Hertfordshire, created 1896.
Dates: 31 August 1819 – 13 September 1907
Biography
Henry Hucks Gibbs was the eldest son of George Henry Gibbs of Aldenham and Clifton Hampden. He developed the Aldenham estate, led the family mercantile and banking firm, and was raised to the peerage in 1896.
Notes / Sources
Cracroft's Peerage, Baron Aldenham — https://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/aldenham1896.htm
University of Leeds Special Collections, Henry Hucks Gibbs — https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections/collection/1477
Wikimedia Commons, Gibbs escutcheon — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Escutcheon_of_Gibbs,_Baron_Wraxall.svg
Historic England, Aldenham House — https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000902?section=official-list-entry
Family / Armorial Context
Family / cadet branch: Gibbs of Aldenham
Father: George Henry Gibbs
Mother: Caroline Crawley
Spouse(s): Louisa Anne Adams
Children / next generation: Alban George Henry Gibbs, 2nd Baron Aldenham; Vicary Gibbs; Herbert Cokayne Gibbs, 1st Baron Hunsdon; Kenneth Francis Gibbs; Henry Lloyd Gibbs; Edith Caroline Gibbs
Armorial Registry
Gibbs of Aldenham — Henry Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham, and the baronial grant
Branch: Aldenham branch descended from George Henry Gibbs of Aldenham and Clifton Hampden
Issued / recorded: 1896-01-31
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