Rev. George Nibbs

Profile & Legacies Summary

1765 - 1832

Biography

Rev. George Nibbs of Cutcombe, son and co-heir of James Langford Nibbs (q.v.) and beneficiary also under the will of James Nibbs of Upton House (q.v.).

Nibbs, George, son of James Langford of Bettshanger Kent matriculated Oriel Oxford 18/10/1783 aged 18, BA 1787, vicar of Cutcombe with Luxborough Somerset 1791 until his death in 1832.
Will of Rev. George Nibbs Clerk of Cutcombe proved 25/10/1832. The will is a litany of bequests of specific assets to his son and sole executor George Langford Nibbs, and includes no reference to property or enslaved people in Antigua. He thus appears to have disposed of his interests in slave-property between 1806 and 1834.

Sources

Ancestry.com, Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886 [database online]. His only son George Langford Nibbs matriculated Pembroke Oxford 1821 aged 20, ibid.
PROB 11/1806/463.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

Married but no further details

Children

James Langford

University

Oxford (Oriel) [1783-1787 ]

Associated Estates (2)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

1796 [SY] - → Trust beneficiary

Langford's [also given as Pope's Head] [ Antigua ]

James Langford Nibbs by his will dated 1792 and proved 01/06/1796 left his estates of Popes Head and Haddons or Weeks's (subject to £150 p.a. to his eldest son James Langford Nibbs junior) to his children, including the Rev. George Nibbs, Richard Nibbs, Samuel Nibbs and Barbara Nibbs. By 1806, only Rev. George Nibbs and Barbara Nibbs were still alive, and the two created a new trust with Humphrey Gilbe as trustee for both estates, possibly as a prelude to selling at least Popes Head.

- 1822 [EY] → Tenant-in-tail or Remainderman

Marble Hill [ Antigua ]

In 1829, Rev. George Nibbs sought to barr and defeat the estates tail and remainders created by the will of James Nibbs of Upton House, and conveyed his interest in Marble Hill to John Teesdale.