Sir Samuel Osborne-Gibbes, Second Baronet (27 August 1803 – 12 November 1874) was a British Army officer, Freemason, plantation owner and politician.

His surviving brother, Philip Osborne-Gibbes, a retired Gilbert Islands trader, died in a Sydney hospital three years later without male issue.

They possessed a semi-fortified stone manor house and barn complex named Venton and raised livestock near the edge of Dartmoor.

The British Listed Buildings' Website[5] states that: "The Gibbes were notorious local insurgents, who maintained a small private army from about 1501 to 1549."

During the Tudor era, members of the particular line of the Gibbes family that is the subject of this article left Devon for the neighbouring county of Somerset, and are recorded in official documents as possessing a considerable amount of property in and around the small northern Somersetshire town of Bedminster.

He married Anne Packer (1561–1631), of Cheltenham, and an engraved brass memorial commemorating them and their children can be seen in Bristol's Priory Church of St James.

[7] Twelve months before his death, an ailing Henry Gibbes had sent the youngest of his three sons, Philip, to the newly colonised West Indian island of Barbados to seek his fortune.

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.

[8] The Gibbes family made their money by harvesting and milling bulk loads of sugarcane, using black slave labour, imported from Africa.