Rev. George Gipps

Rector of Ringwould in Kent, husband of Susanna Bonella Venn and father of Sir George Gipps (1791-1847), the Governor of New South Wales. The ODNB entry for Sir George Gipps makes no reference to his mother, who was a beneficiary under the will of her father Rev. John Venn of Jamaica, a slave-owner.

1. The Lloyds Bank website shows in relation to Hammond & Co., a predecessor firm of Lloyds Bank: 'Hammond & Co. (founded in 1788 in Kent. Successor bank taken over by Lloyds in 1918). Original partners were from the Gipps family, who owned a sugar plantation in Jamaica.' The founders were James Simmons, George Gipps MP, and Henry Gipps, the second the uncle of Rev. George Gipps and the third his brother. No estate owned by the Gipps has yet been traced by LBS: the brief summary of the archive holdings at Lloyds Bank for Hammond & Co. makes no mention of 'slave-property' or Jamaica.

Frost, A. (2010, May 27). Gipps, Sir George (1791–1847), colonial governor. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 9 Jan. 2020, from https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-10766.

1. https://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/Our-Group/our-heritage/our-history2/lloyds-bank/ [accessed 15/10/2020]; https://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/Our-Group/our-heritage/2015-our-milestone-year/250-years-of-lloyds-bank/branch-stories/canterbury/ [accessed 15/10/2020]; https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/baf41281-ed67-34ec-b92a-f5b8b39baaaa[accessed 15/10/2020].