Vicary Gibbs (St Albans MP)

[2] He was the third son of Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham (1819–1907), and his wife Louisa Anne, daughter of William Adams.

[2] He was educated at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1876 with a Bachelor of Arts degree[3] in Classical Moderations.

He and his brother Alban were partners in the firm Antony Gibbs & Sons,[6] which had organised the sale to the Admiralty of two warships which had been built in England for the Chilean Navy, to avoid them being sold to a rival power when Chile did not complete the purchase.

[5] At the 1906 general election Gibbs stood unsuccessfully in Bradford Central,[12] campaigning as a tariff reformer,[13] but never returned to the Commons.

He was a member of the Tariff Commission[14] and of the Council of the Industrial Freedom League, an organisation which opposed the involvement of the state and municipalities in trading companies.

[20] In January 1932 Gibbs died aged 78 at his London home in Upper Belgrave Street; he never married,[2] and most of his huge plant collection at Aldenham was auctioned by Sotheby's in October that year.