GIBBS

Sir Benjamin Thomas Brandreth ( youngest son of Thomas Gibbs of Ampthill, Beds. ) b. London 1821; steward of yard of R. Agricultural soc. 1839–42, hon. director 1843–74, vice president 1871–85; hon. sec. of Smith field club 1843–85, presented with a silver candelabra 12 Dec. 1855; a ociated with agricultural sections of national exhibitions in London 1851 and 1862, in Paris 1855, 1867 and 1878, in Vienna 1873, in Philadelphia 1875; commander of order of Francis Joseph 1873; officer of Legion of honour 1878; knighted for his agricultural services, first person so rewarded, by the Queen at Windsor 27 Nov. 1878; sec. of Fisheries exhibition, London 1883; author of The Smith field club, a condensed history 1857. d. Mo ley house, Sinclair road, West Kensington park 2 June 1885. Journ. of Royal Agric. Soc. xxi , 611–20 (1885), portrait ; The Biograph, March 1882 pp. 259–61; I.L.N. xxvii , 725–26 (1855), portrait .