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Persönliche Daten Reginald Cecil Lybbe Powys-Lybbe (born POWYS) 

• Er wurde geboren am 12. August 1881 in 71 rue Tour Notre Dame, Boulogne sur Mer, France.
• Er wurde getauft am 8. September 1881 in St John the Evangelist, Boulogne sur Mer, France.

  Cert No 274

• Beruf: 1st s. Benefactor. 1914 Star in WW1. Special Constable..
• Ausbildung: Mount prep school, St Leonards, then a tutor at Whatley, near Fr.

  ome, Somerset then Cirencester Agric College

• Er ist verstorben am 24. März 1930 in Rectory Farm, Streatley, Berks, er war 48 Jahre alt.
• Er wurde beerdigt in Victoria Road Cemetery, Caversham, Reading.
• Ein Kind von William Reginald Lybbe Powys-Lybbe und Sarah Ann Bartholomew
• Diese Information wurde zuletzt aktualisiert am 4. Dezember 2022.

Familie von Reginald Cecil Lybbe Powys-Lybbe (born POWYS)

Er ist verheiratet mit Lilian Frances Gillett Trotter.

Sie haben geheiratet am 12. Mai 1908 in St Mary's, Whitchurch Oxon, er war 26 Jahre alt.

Kind(er):

1. Antony Powys-Lybbe  1909-2004 
2. Ursula Margot Powys-Lybbe  1910-1997

Ereignis (Separated) rund 1922: Separated.

TFPL: I have six affidavits leaifng up to this separation; all very sad.

Notizen bei Reginald Cecil Lybbe Powys-Lybbe (born POWYS)

Martin P-L writes:

REGINALD CECIL LYBBE P-L 1881-1930

He was born in Boulogne and baptised there at St John the Evangelist's.
1888  Aged 7 when his father died.  His mother soon remarried, but herself died when Reginald was 14. ; Meanwhile he was brought up by the Darnells, (his uncle and aunt - TFPL) near Romsey.
He and P.G. Wodehouse were at prep. school together. ; Poor health prevented further schooling, but he was tutored by someone, perhaps in Mells.  He also worked on a farm (of which he future wife much disapproved!).

1900-01  attended Cirencester College of Agriculture, where records show that he always scored high marks in exams, with the single exception of his last Physics exam, where he got only 163 ex 200 and failed the viva voce. ; The last record for him reads: Honours Diploma of Membership: Powys-Lybbe still to pass in one subject.

Before his marriage he lived at Holly Copse, where his grandfather had died in 1897.  [Though RCLP-L's notes show the gent as dying at Brighton... as does the probate record .. and does his death certificate.]

Inherited Hardwick House from his grandfather Philip Lybbe Powys-Lybbe on 16th Sept 1897.  Sold Hardwick House to Sir Charles Rose, Bart in 1909.

Bought Rectory Farm from Mrs Henry M Calmont in 1907. ; (This property was held for many years by the Pusey family, the owner of which holds certain ancient rights as lay rector.)

1908  Married Lilian Frances Gillett Trotter, whose father was the Rector of Whitchurch and Hon.Canon of Christ Church, Oxford.  In 1910, Hardwick was sold (including Holly Copse), and in 1914 Bull Croft, a park of 19 acres, was given to the town of Wallingford.  [His father's house, The Croft, was presumably sold when his mother remarried.  It had in any case been pulled down and replaced by a Lutyens designed building, Rush Court.]  [TFPL: I suspect this is a confusion.  Rush Court was the old Greenwood residence, left to WRLP-L by his great uncle Charles Greenwood in 1879]  Meanwhile, Reginald and Lilian bought Thurle Grange, renamed it Rectory Farm, and moved in. [TFPL: RCLP-L's notes show him as buying Rectory Farm in 1907, before marriage, though doubtless in contemplation of same.]

After his brother Richard deserted his family, they gave a home to the three children. [TFPL, Feb 2001: RCLPL's brother Richard divorced in 1920, by 1921 RCLPL and LFGPL had already started separation proceedings having lived separately for years.  Possibly it was after this that the three children were taken in when their father abandoned them to go to Canada.  I don't think LFGPL saw much of them.  June 2005: There were in fact four children and it looks as if the youngest stayed with his mother; though he was named P-L and RB P-L was on sick leave nine months before the birth,, one wonders who his father actually was.]  However, it must have been an unsettled upbringing, since Reginald and Lilian separated, and the former spent much of the rest of his life living in hotels.

Quite early in his marriage he became an R.C. [received into Church at St James' Catholic Church, Reading in June 1914 - TFPL] and something of a benefactor to the Church. ; He built a church in Reading, gave land to Downside, an altar to Douai.

Served in France during the European War under the French Red Cross (1914 Star).

He was a pioneer motorist. Among other cars he had three Mercedes, of 18, 45 and 60 h.p.  Photographs of these and of family survive in two albums, dating from about 1906-12.

Aged 49 he died of cancer.  - MPL

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TFPL Jan to Dec 1988:

RCLPL got a Royal Licence on 2 April 1907 from Edward VII to quarter the Lybbe arms with Powys as our personal "impartible" arms.  I have the document signed by E VII not to mention the far more ornate but less interesting exemplification from the C of A.  He also had 64 Quartered Arms confirmed in the late 1920s: Norfolk 32/149.  Subsequently most revealed to be debarred by unrepealed attainder on Margaret of Salisbury, though the Dictionary of National Biography says, for Margaret, this attainder was repealed in Mary's reign.

In any case the Brittany and Rohan arms cannot be claimed as the C of A's genealogy is F A L S E!  7.4.2000: Just discovered that Amicia Mandeville was probably illegitimate so that her father's arms cannot be inherited either.

But the Michell, Girle, Slaney (these three sketched by RCLP-L so he was obviously fairly confident of them), Trotter and Brown arms can be claimed in their place, not to mention all those claimed by Thomas of Snitton in his visitation and one or two thought to be claimable by RCLP-L such as Littleton, Botreaux, Burley and Saunders, Blunt, Carew and Marston...  Though the last four are from the Twysden line and Isabella Twysden was NOT an Heraldic Heiress.

7.4.2000: And the Gobert arms can also be claimed; she was an heiress married by a late Barrington.  June 2005: It seems that she may have brought with her osme Caskon (Gascoigne) and Neville of Throntton Bridge quarterings as well - not sure, though.

The P-L impartible arms are blazoned by RCLP-L as:

1st & 4th LYBBE: Ermine a bend between two lions rampant gules, 2nd & 3rd Powys: Or a Lion's gamb erased between two cross crosslets fitchée in bend sinister gu.

Crest of LYBBE: On a wreath of the Colours a dexter arm embowed in mail armour a hand supporting a spear erect, all proper.

Crest of POWYS: A lions gamb erased and erect gules holding a sceptre headed with a fleur-de-lys, or.

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TFPL in Dec 1999:

RCLPL was born on 12th August 1881 as Reginald Cecil Lybbe POWYS with only the POWYS for his surname.  On his birth certificate, no 175, his father is down as William Reginald Lybbe POWYS and his mother as Sarah POWYS née BARTHOLOMEW.  The place of birth is given as Boulogne Sur Mer and his father's, the informant's, address as 71 Rue Tour Notre Dame, Boulogne sur Mer.  Registered at the Vice Consulate on 23rd August 1881.

From his baptismal certifcate, copy made on 1st March 1907:
Page: 35 of 1881
Entry Number: 274
Baptised at: Church of St John the Evangelist, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Date: 6th September 1991
Name: Reginald Cecil Lybbe
Parents: William Reginald Lybbe and Sarah
Surname: Powys
Abode: 71 r Tour Notre dame
Quality, Trade or Profession: Esquire
Celebrant: H. Meysey-Turton, Chaplain
Copy made by J V C Dutton-Tompson, Chaplain of St John's, Boulogne sur Mer

Presumably he became a P-L when his father changed his name, sometime before 1887 when he, WRLP-L,  announced it in a codicil to his will.  (See below for the true story.)

In 1895 when his mother died, he and his siblings were adopted by his Aunt, Julia Darnell.

In 1900 he went to live at Whitchurch, Oxon (in Holly Copse at which he took - and we have - some photos of his cars and his brother Dick during that time).

Was a Special Constable and had a Warrant Card as such for the County of Berkshire issued by Lt Col X X Fuller (or suchlike), Chief Constable of Berkshire.

He left behind him, and only revealed in the year 2000, a testament recording the details of his immediate ancestry and of his disagreements with his, by then, separated wife.  This testament (for want of a better word) was written about 1925, from internal evidence; the final separation was about 1922.
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TFPL, June 2001: Just found a snippet in Palmer's Times Index to show that RCL P-L changed his name from Powys in Aug 1902, about three weeks after he became 21. Reported on 1 Sep 1902, p. 1, col b.

TFPL, May 2004: found the entry in The Times of Monday 1st Septemebr 1902 for his name change:

"TAKE NOTICE that REGINALD CECIL LYBBE POWYS-LYBBE, heretofore REGINALD CECIL LYBBE POWYS (but commonly known as Reginald Cecil Lybbe Powys-Lybbe), of Hardwick House, in the County of Oxford, and of Broomfield House, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, by a Deed Poll under his hand and seal, bearing date the 18th day of August 1902, and duly enrolled in the Central Office of the Supreme Court of Judicature, declared that he intended thenceforth, pursuant to Royal letters patent dated 18th February 1863, to ASSUME and USE the SURNAME of LYBBE in addition to and after that of Powys, and by the name of Reginald Cecil Lybbe Powys-Lybbe thenceforth to subscribe and write and call himself in and upon all Deeds, Instruments, and Writings and upon all occasions whatsoever, and that he intended thenceforth to be so known.
"Dated the 23rd day of August, 1902
"ROWCLIFFE, RAWLE & Co., 1, Bedford-row, London, Agents for Hamilton Fulton, Salisbury, Solicitor for the said Reginald Cecil Lybbe Powys-Lybbe."
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TFPL, March 2002: Found a document dated 29th September 1902, in the J Ambler Collection in the Oxford Record Office ref Amb/V/45, which include mentions of a property in Wallingford owned by "Reginald Cecil Lybbe Powys esq".  Sounds as if he used his birth name right through to the above deed poll???

In the 1901 census he was at (the agricultural college) Cirencester, Glos as a pupil aged 19 and born in Boulogne, France.
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TFPL, March 2003: I have seen his entry in the record books of the College of Arms.
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TFPL, May 2004: In the 1891 census he was aged 9 (correct) and living with his mother, step-father and siblings at The Bungalow, Burghfield, Nr Newbury, Berks.
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He is in the 1930 Catholic Who's Who and the 1909 Walford's County families.  Must look them up.
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In the TNA medals archive, Ref WO/372/12, Image ref 36616, there is some correspondence about his claim for a medal.  He was with the British and French Red Cross in the British Expeditionary Force in 1914, as a driver with the Motor Ambulance Division in the Haden-Gareat (?) Unit.  On the 16 May 1918 and 7 Oct 1918 he was sent letters to say he was ineligible for any medal.  BUt on 18 Jan 1920 he was sent a letter to say that he was eligble.  The record appears to say that he got the 1914 Star and the Victory British Star.

At the last count I still had those medals plus a third one which I do not know about - TFPL, Dec 2004
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