Herbert Cokayne Gibbs, 1st Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon (14 May 1854-22 May 1935), was a British

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 businessman.

Hunsdon was the fourth son of Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham

Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham

Henry Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham MA BA FGS FSA was a British banker, businessman and Conservative Party politician.Aldenham the son of George Henry Gibbs,...

, and Louisa Anne Adams, and was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge

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. He was a partner in the family firm of Antony Gibbs and Sons and also served as Commissioner and Chairman of the Public Works Loan Board. In 1908 he bought the Hunsdon Manor and the Briggens estate in Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire

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 and served as a Justice of the Peace

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 and as High Sheriff

High Sheriff of Hertfordshire

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 of the county. In 1923 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon, of Briggens in the County of Hertford.

Lord Hunsdon married Anna Maria, daughter of Richard Durant, in 1885. They had three sons and three daughters. Their sixth son Sir Humphrey Gibbs

Humphrey Gibbs

Sir Humphrey Vicary Gibbs, GCVO, KCMG, OBE was the penultimate Governor of the colony of Southern Rhodesia who served through, and opposed, the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965....

 was Governor of Southern Rhodesia

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. Lord Hunsdon died in May 1935, aged 81, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Walter

Walter Gibbs, 4th Baron Aldenham

Captain Walter Durant Gibbs, 4th Baron Aldenham was a British peer, the son of Herbert Cokayne Gibbs, 1st Baron Hunsdon. He succeeded to the title 2nd Baron Hunsdon on 22 May 1935. He succeeded to the title 4th Baron Aldenham on 21 March 1939, on the death of his cousin, the 3rd Baron, who died...

, who in 1939 also succeeded his cousin the barony of Aldenham

Baron Aldenham

Baron Aldenham, of Aldenham in the County of Hertford, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that was created on 31 January 1896 for the businessman Hucks Gibbs. He was head of the family firm of Antony Gibbs & Sons and a director and Governor of the Bank of England...

. Lady Hunsdon died in 1938.