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| Husband: | Henry de Beltgens Gibbins (1865-1907) | |
| Wife: | Emily Bell (1865-1943) | |
| Name: | Henry de Beltgens Gibbins | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | Joseph Henry Gibbins (1841- ) | |
| Mother: | Eleanor de Beltgens ( - ) | |
| Birth | 23 May 1865 | Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony |
| Census | 1891 (age 25-26) | Schoolmaster, 26 Burford Road, Radford, Nottinghamshire |
| Census | 1901 (age 35-36) | Clergyman (C of E) & Schoolmaster, Woodfield House, Bewdley Street, Kidderminster, Worcestershire |
| Death | 13 Aug 1907 (age 42) | Park House, Thackley, Yorkshire |
| Name: | Emily Bell | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 3 Jul 1865 | Bradford, Yorkshire |
| Census | 1891 (age 25-26) | Wife in household |
| Census | 1901 (age 35-36) | Wife in household |
| Census | 1911 (age 45-46) | No occupation, visiting Mary Ida Stocker, The Croft, Woodridings, Hatch End, Middlesex (widow) |
| Death fact | 1943 (age 77-78) | 1943 Mar Q, Staines, 3a/59 (aged 77) |
| Death | 28 Feb 1943 (age 77) | 10 Ingram House, Hampton Wick, Middlesex |
GIBBINS, HENRY DE BELTGENS (1865-1907), writer on economic history, born at Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony, on 23 May 1865, was eldest son of Joseph Henry Gibbins of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, by his wife Eleanor, daughter of the Hon. J. de Beltgens of Stanford, Dominica. Educated at Bradford grammar school, he won a scholarship at Wadham College, Oxford, in 1883, and obtained a second class in classical moderations in 1885, and a second class also in the final classical schools in 1887. He graduated B. A. in the following year. In 1890 he won the Cobden prize for an economic essay in the University of Oxford, and in 1896 received the degree of D.Litt. at Dublin.
From 1889 to 1895 he worked as assistant master at tho Nottingham high school. In 1891 he was ordained deacon and in 1892 priest, serving the curacy of St. Matthew's, Nottingham, from 1891 to 1893. From 1895 to 1899 he was vice-principal of Liverpool College; from 1899 to 1906 headmaster of King Charles I school at Kidderminster ; in 1906 he was made principal of Lennoxville University in Canada. Ill-health obliged him to leave Canada after a short stay. On 13 Aug. 1907 he was killed by a fall from the train in the Thackley tunnel between Leeds and Bradford. He married Emily, third daughter of Dr. J. H. Bell of Bradford, by whom he had one daughter.
Gibbins devoted himself to economic study from his Oxford days and published : 1. 'Industrial History of England,' 1890. 2. 'The History of Commerce in Europe,' 1891, 2nd edit. 1897. 3. 'English Social Reformers,' 1892, 2nd edit. 1902. 4. 'British Commerce and Colonies,' 1893, 4th edit. 1909. 5. 'Economics of Commerce,' 1894, Spanish trans. 1903. 6. 'Industry in England,' 1896. 7. ' The English People in the Nineteenth Century,' 1898; 2nd edit. 1900; Russian trans. 1901. 8. 'Economic and Industrial Progress of the Century,' 1901. He was a contributor to Palgrave's ' Dictionary of Political Economy ' and edited for Messrs. Methuen their 'Social Questions of the Day' series (1891) and also their 'Commercial series (1893). His economic work popularly illustrated the historical methods of economic study.
[The Times, 14 Aug. 1907 ; Foster's Alumni Oxon. ; private information.]
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GIBBINS the reverend Henry de Beltgens of Park House Thackley Yorkshire clerk died 13 August 1907. Probate London 27 November to Emily de Beltgens Gibbins widow. Effects £4329 4s. 8d.
GIBBINS Emily de Beltgens of 10 Ingram House Hampton Wick Middlesex widow died 28 February 1943. Probate Llandudno 19 April to Eleanor de Beltgens Adair (wife of William Alexander Adair). Effects £2191 16s.