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| Husband: | Robert Geoffrey Gibbon (1901-1987) | |
| Wife: | Nirvana Ayscough de Fontenelle Fawkes (1914-1984) | |
| Marriage | 11 Sep 1979 | Parish Church of St Peter, Winchcombe, Gloucs |
| Witnesses | 11 Sep 1979 | J D N Tod, Hope Tod |
| Name: | Robert Geoffrey Gibbon | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | Robert William Gibbon (1863-1932) | |
| Mother: | Frances Edith Smith (c. 1871-1913) | |
| Birth | 5 Feb 1901 | New Barnet, Hertfordshire |
| Birth fact | 1901 (age 0) | 1901 Mar Qtr, Barnet, 3a/331 |
| Occupation | 11 Sep 1979 (age 78) | Clerk in Holy Orders, The Vicarage, Winchcombe |
| Occupation | 5 Aug 1984 (age 83) | Clerk in Holy Orders (retired), Edgehill, Stockwell Lane, Cleeve Hill, Cheltenham (on wife Nirvana's death cert.) |
| Death fact | Jan 1987 (age 85) | Hendon, 13/664 (aged 85) |
| Occupation | 1987 (age 85-86) | Anglican priest (retired), 62 The Bishops Avenue, London N.2 |
| Education | Aldenham School & Merton College, Oxford | |
| Death | 16 Jan 1987 (age 85) | Hendon, Middlesex |
| Name: | Nirvana Ayscough de Fontenelle Fawkes | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | Marmaduke Fawkes (1883-1941) | |
| Mother: | Linda Esperanza Funnell (1880-1977) | |
| Birth | 3 Jan 1914 | Church Hill, Midhurst, Sussex |
| Birth fact | 1914 (age 0) | 1914 Mar Qtr, Midhurst, 2b/620 |
| Residence | 1939 (age 24-25) | Living with parents |
| Residence | 11 Sep 1979 (age 65) | Edge Hill, Stockwell Lane, Cleeve Hill, Gloucs (on marriage cert.) |
| Death fact | Aug 1984 (age 70) | 1984 Aug, Cheltenham, 22/1270 (aged 70) |
| Death | 5 Aug 1984 (age 70) | Cleeve Hill Nursing Home, Cleeve Hill, Gloucs |
| Cause of death (Facts Pg) | 5 Aug 1984 (age 70) | Carcinomatosis, carcinoma of breast |
Born in Barnet in February 1901, and educated at Aldenham and Merton College, Oxford, where he took a first in Modern History, Canon Geoffrey Gibbon was a school teacher for 10 years before entering Wells Theological College. He was ordained in 1934 in Southwark and served for three years in the parish of St Peter's Church at St Helier. When he volunteered for serice overseas he was accepted by the London office of the Transvaal and Southern Rhodesia Missions, and sent to Southern Rhodesia.
Canon Gibbon returned to England in 1965 and took over a parish in the Cotswolds until his retirement in 1971.
Source: "Paget of Rhodesia" by Geoffrey Gibbon, Books of Rhodesia, Bulawayo, 1973 (dust jacket)