page_title: William Gibbs (businessman)
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: William Gibbs (businessman) / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: William and Blanche Gibb, owners of the Tyntesfield Estate, North Somerset.
context_page_description: William Gibbs was an English businessman, best known as one of three founding partners in Antony Gibbs & Sons, a religious philanthropist, and the owner who developed Tyntesfield in Wraxall, North Somerset.
context_section_description: On 1 August 1839, William married Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey at St Mary the Virgin church in Flaxley, Gloucestershire. Born in Gloucester, she was the third and youngest daughter of Sir Thomas Crawley-Boevey, 3rd Baronet (1769–1847), and Mary Albinia (d. 1835), eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Hyde Page. Matilda's father was the first cousin of Henry Gibbs's wife, Caroline, and her brother Charles Crawley. The couple had eight children:
  Dorothea Harriett (12 June 1840 – 20 September 1914)
  Antony (10 December 1841 – 24 April 1907)
  Alice Blanche (27 October 1843 – 12 Mar 1871)
  William (14 January 1846 – 11 June 1869)
  George Abraham (25 March 1848 – 23 February 1870)
  Henry Martin (30 May 1850 – 22 April 1928)
  Albinia Anne Gibbs (7 June 1853 – 17 April 1874)
  Lucey Gibbs (21 November 1854 - 29 October 1902)
  William Gibbs died at Tyntesfield on 3 April 1875. After a service at the chapel within the estate grounds on 9 April, his coffin was carried to the All Saints, Wraxall by relays of thirty estate workers rather than in a carriage. He is buried within the family plot in the church grounds. There is a memorial to William Gibbs contained with St Michael and All Angels Church, Exeter.
caption: William and Blanche Gibbs with their family, pictured at Tyntesfield in 1862
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