HONORABLE LORD WRAXALL(topic King George 5ths illness)6 RARE DOCUMENTS!+GIFT

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WOW WHAT HISTORY !!!!
ONE OF MY MOST SIGNIFICANT DOCUMENTS!!!
LOOK AT ALL THE NEW INFO I ADDED ABOUT THE WRAXAL FAMILY AND THEIR IMPORTANT PLACE EVEN TODAY IN BRITISH SOCETY IN PRESERVING THEIR OLD WONDERFUL HOME AS A HISTORIC WONDER !!! There is actually a Photograph of Lord Wraxall in Ebay for sale in Iceland I just saw which speaks of his being kidnapped and locked in the boot of his car !!!
THIS IS AN EXTREMELY RARE AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENT FOR BOTH BRITISH AND AMERICAN COLLECTORS !!! I REALLY SHOULD NOT EVEN SELL THIS PIECE AND SAVE IT FOR MY FAMILY BUT I TRULY NEED A ROOF SO HERE GOES ONE OF TE BEST OFFERS I HAVE EVER MADE IN ALL MY AUCTION YEARS. ANY ONE WHO KNOWS HSTORY WILL UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS DOCUMENT ESPECIALLY SINCE IT IS A LONG PERSONALIZED LETTER FROM A BRITISH ROYAL !!!
13) The RT. Honorable LORD WRAXALL
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June 10th 1931- Letterhead SLOANE 4400 81. EATON SQUARE S.W.I - Letter regards sending a photograph of the Lord to Mr. Colby. There is only
1 signed letter from the Lord.
He states his only decent photo is one dressed in his
Masonic
garb. He had just been appointed to the Treasurer of His Majesty’s Household, in full dress uniform. He looks upon his visit to America with very great pleasure. He felt the Sesquicentenial celebration was a success stating that
Masonic
feeling in the
masonic
world had been improved without doubt. He was appreciative with the hospitality of Mr. Colby.
He speaks of Lady Wraxall and he attended functions such s the Derby run at Epsom , a very good race.
The winner was “Cameronian..”
The best horse won he states.
He states that possibly ¾ of a million watched the Downs.
He also attended the Trooping of the Color held normally on the Kings birthday, June 3
rd
,
but was held off to the 6
th
that year.
He states it is a magnificent pageant from the 1800’s with the battalion of Guards carrying the color of the Kings Guard.
His brother Colonel Evelyn Gibbs, was commanding the Coldstream Guards, and commanded the parade.
The king was present on horseback to inspect the troops,
followed by the playing of bands as the color was trooped down the lines of guards.
His brother lead the parade and at the end rode to Buckingham palace with His Majesty.
King George the Fifth was dealing with the severe depression of the time and it affected him greatly as Lord Wraxall states, the King Died in 1936, leaving the crown to Queen Elizabeth who rules still today.
The lord thanks Mr. Colby for a wonderful evening at his home with Mrs. Colby.
As a Ps. The Lord mentions having had a close friend by the same name as Mr. Colby who hunted with the Duke of Beaufort hounds from wales in his personal handwriting, a rare thing indeed.
There are 2 carbon copies of Mr. Colby’s replies to the lord thanking him for a wonderful visit and states that the photograph of the Lord held a special place in his Home....
He tells the Lord he loves the English life He tells the lord that Mrs Colby indeed was happy to have the lord visit her home. The second carbon letter reply on the eve of the Lords sailing back to England, and thanks the Lord for the true spirit he brought to the craft of Masonry He tells the Lord he will be there at the ship to shake his hand upon his leaving on the ship headed home.
(Historical notes- personal letters dated 10th june 1931 just months before his death of pneumonia at 58)George Abraham Gibbs, 1st Baron Wraxall,
PC
(6 July 1873 – 28 October 1931), was a
British
Conservative
politician. 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
. He also served as a colonel in the
North Somerset Yeomanry
.)
George Abraham Gibbs (6 July 1873
–
28 October 1931)
and his wife,
took over. George
was the eldest of Antony and Janet’s 7 sons and
began his career as a soldier. He was later MP
for West Bristol until 1928. He was elevated to the peerage as Baron Wraxall of Clyst St. George in the County of
Devon in 1928. His appointment as Treasurer of the Household was instrumental in his elevation to the peerage.
George Abraham Gibbs and his wife had Crac
e’s
stencilling all painted out, the Norton fireplace removed, the
furniture replaced with Edwardian pieces and the carpet died by Sketchleys. By then the gas lighting had been
replaced by electric lighting. There was damasked silk, stretched on battening on the walls. They were portraying
the room as a Venetian Drawing Room.
George Abraham Gibbs, Lord Wraxall, married firstly Victoria Florence de Burgh Long, (Via) daughter of Walter Hume
Long. Via sadly suffered a string of 9 miscarriages and both of her sons died as infants. Their only surviving child was
a daughter,
Doreen Albinia de Burgh Gibbs
(
born at Tyntesfield on 13 September 1913
), who was understandably
incredibly precious and over-protected. Via died, aged only 39, in 1920 when Doreen was only 6 years old.
In 1927, when Doreen was 14 years old, Lord Wraxall married again
–
the Hon. Ursula Mary Lawley, daughter
of Arthur Lawley, 6th Baron Wenlock. This second marriage produced two boys:
George Richard Lawley Gibbs (16 May 1928 - 19 July 2001),
(known as Richard), and
Eustace Hubert Beilby Gibbs
.
George Abraham was succeeded by his elder son, Richard, the second Lord Wraxall, on 28 October 1931.
Richard was three years old when he succeeded (of interest is the fact that his godmother was Queen Mary of Teck.)
Richard served in the Coldstream Guards and the local Yeomanry regiment.
In 1988 he was kidnapped at Tyntesfield and locked in the boot of his BMW for almost seven hours! Afterwards
according to The Times, he said "Good grief, there's more room in the back than I ever thought". The kidnappers had
knocked him to the ground, one battering him on the head with a plank, and demanded the combination to his safe
and his house keys, but the burglar alarm went off and, in a panic, the raiders bundled Lord Wraxall into the boot of
his car and drove him to woods about two miles away, before making off with his wallet and credit cards.
Richard died unmarried in 2001. He was alone in the house at the time and it is thought he died of an asthma attack.
On his death, the estate was sold.
His brother, the diplomat Sir Eustace Gibbs, is now the third Lord Wraxall. Sir Eustace Gibbs has three sons and two
daughters.
“
Wraxall
”
means
‘
the valley of the buzzards
’
.
Baron Wraxall (1928). First Lord Wraxall of Tyntesfield. Privy Councillor. Baptised 3 August 1873 at Wraxall, Somerset. Educated at Eton College 1887-92; matric. at Oxford (Christ Church) 1892, BA 1897, MA 1903. Buried 31 October 1931 at Wraxall aforesaid. Will 24 January 1930, proved 14 July 1932.
At Oxford he was Master of Christ Church Beagles. He travelled in Europe, Egypt and Morocco 1897-8. He succeeded to his father's estates, but sold (1907) the property in Alphington and Whitestone and the advowson of the former. He also sold the advowson of Otterbourne, remaining patron of the livings of Clyst St. George and Exwick in Devon, Stowe-nine-churches in Northants, Flax Bourton and North Newton in Somerset and St. Michael's in Paddington.
Lord of the Manor of Wraxall, Somerset, from 1928.
A Justice of the Peace for Somerset (Long Ashton petty sessional division) from 1898 and a Deputy Lieutenant for the County from 1911. President of the Dolphin Society of Bristol, 1908. President of the Somerset Society 1912-22. Member of Parliament (Conservative) for West Bristol 1906-24 and 1921-8 (in 1924 he was elected by a majority of 17,300 a very great one for those days). He was Bristol's senior Member 1922-8. Parliamentary Secretary (1917-19) to his father-in-law, Walter H. Long, the Secretary of State for the Colonies. A Conservative Whip in the House of Commons 1917-24, and 1924-8. Treasurer of the King's Household 1921-4, and again 1924-8. Privy Councillor from 1923.
Created in 1928 Baron Wraxall 'of Clyst St. George in the County of Devon'.
2nd Lieut. North Somerset Yeomanry Regiment Jan. 1893; Capt. September 1895; Major about 1902. Lieut. Col. 1908. He volunteered for service abroad on the outbreak of the South African (Boer) War of 1899-1902 and served in that war in 1900-01 with a Company of N. Somerset Yeo. (48th Company of the Imperial Yeomanry) which was body-guard to the commander in chief, Lord Roberts, in his campaign from Bloemfontein to Pretoria in May and June, 1900. Hon. Lieut, in the Army 1901. South African War medal and 4 clasps. He was in command of his regiment 1909 till he retired December 1913. "Territorial Decoration" 1913.
In the Great War he raised in 1914 and commanded till 1917 the 2nd Regiment (2/1) N. Som. Yeomanry, formed to supply drafts to the 1st Regt. which was on active service. He was Acting Brigadier General commanding his Regiment's Brigade (then on bicycles) at Ipswich, October, 1916-17). Territ. Army Reserve, 1917-28.
As a Freemason he was Permanent Grand Master for the Province of Bristol 1908-31 and in the spring of 1931 he was appointed by the Duke of Connaught (Grand Master) a member of the deputation of the Grand Lodge of England which attended the celebration in N. York of the bicentenary of Freemasonry in N. America.
Successive London residences: 35 Wilton Crescent,
1906-11, 22 Belgrave Square 1911-28, 81 Eaton Square from 1929, all in City of Westminster.
Among other Clubs member of the Carlton from 1906 and of Nobody's Friends from 1930.
His arms in the memorial window to his grandfather Antony Gibbs, in St. Michael's, Paddington, commemorate the long connection with that parish.
On the day of his funeral a memorial service held at St. Margaret's, Westminster, was attended by representatives of the King and Queen and of the Prime Minister.
Accounts of his life are in The London Times of 30 October and Bristol Times and Mirror of 29 Oct. 1931.
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INFO ON THE HONORABLE BAINBRIDGE COLBY
Up for auction are only the items shown in the scans.  The Honorable Bainbridge Colby- (Woodrow Wilsons last Secretary of State and Mark Twains lawyer, as well as the man who ratified the 19th amendment which gave woman the right to vote !!!, I have seen on the net that Mr. Colbys autograph alone has sold for between .00 and .00. And since carbon relies of the era did not come with signatures I have decided to add a check and signature so as to add a direct provenance to your acquisition. . He was a gentleman who helped shape the U.S. Political foreign affairs during the 1920's - 1940's. I grew up in his hometown and the caretaker for the family estate called Little Brook Farm, at Sunset Bay, near Bemus Point. The Colby family farms caretaker after Mr. Colbys death in 1950 and Mrs. Colbys death in 1963 was my Sunday school teacher (Mr Sydney Taylor) in the Maple Springs Interdenominational church from when I moved there in 1964 until his death in 1967. Us kids would walk Mr. Taylor home several miles each Sunday after church through the beautiful woods that later became Long State Park after Mr. Taylor passed away and we would help him in his duties of cleaning up the property and my father would haul the truckloads of junk we piled up every few weeks to the Ellery Center Dump which is when I kept a couple small boxes of the stuff and carried around until I began to research it this past two years. I just kick myself now realizing that we must have thrown away several tons of paperwork and old books that were most probably filled with original mark Twain items and other significant words of men and womans gifts, books, manuscripts that today would be a treasure of Americana history. I just thank God that Mr. Taylor told me to save the little bit.
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