Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NamePhilip Lybbe Powys-Lybbe 
[4, 1901, PRO ref 13/1271 for Clayemore School, Clay Hill, Enfield, Mx], [4, 1891, Burghfield, Newbury, Berks. Film RG12/990 p. 20], [3, His birth, Q1 of 1886, Wallingford district, vol 2c, p. 345], [4, 1911 ref: RG14PN34753 RD636 SD1 ED10/1 SN78]
[4, 1901, PRO ref 13/1271 for Clayemore School, Clay Hill, Enfield, Mx], [4, 1891, Burghfield, Newbury, Berks. Film RG12/990 p. 20], [3, His birth, Q1 of 1886, Wallingford district, vol 2c, p. 345], [4, 1911 ref: RG14PN34753 RD636 SD1 ED10/1 SN78]Birth5 Feb 1886, The Croft, Wallingford
Baptism6 Feb 1886, St Peter, Wallingford [19, St Peter, Wallingford]
Death30 Jan 1925, Le Foulon, St Andrew's Guernsey
BurialSt Andrews Cemetery, Guernsey
GeneralTomato Grower
FatherWilliam Reginald Lybbe Powys-Lybbe (born POWYS) (1856-1888)
MotherSarah Ann Bartholomew (1851-1895)
Notes for Philip Lybbe Powys-Lybbe
Martin P-L writes:
1906-1925, had a fruit farm on Sark. There is a picture of him there in one of Reginald Cecil's photograph albums.
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St Peter's Baptism Register:
"1886 Feb 6 POWYS-LYBBE Philip Lybbe s. William Reginald Lybbe, gentleman & Sarah, The Croft, Castle St. privately rec'd into the Church , 7 Apr 1886 AWR"
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On 9th Feb 1886, this notice of his birth appeared in The Standard:
“POWYS-LYBBE-Feb 5, the wife of W. R. L. Powys-Lybbe, Esq, Mayor of Wallingford, of a son.”
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In the 1901 census he was recorded as "Philip Lybbe Powys LYBE" at Clayemore School, Clay Hill, Enfield, Middlesex, a boarder and scholar, aged 16 and born in Wallingford Oxon.
TFPL, May 2004: In the 1891 census he was aged 5 (correct) and living with his mother, step-father and siblings at The Bungalow, Burghfield, Nr Newbury, Berks.
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March 2007: Tony Chew, the History master and archivist of Claymores School, Enfield has found his records from 1900 to 1904 and is sending a photo or two. He wrote:
“Any idea why he went to Clayesmore? The school was only 4 years old in 1900 and had a bit of a reputation as "Clayesmore Reformatory" because it took on "misfits" and pupils who had been asked to leave other public schools! Your ancestor certainly had some rum school contemporaries. It was also rather successful one suspects, because the public schools were becoming alarmed at the competition. "It must keep its place as a "special school" for faddy parents whose children were not quite normal or who were unnatural enough to like that sort of thing". Effectively it was a progressive school before its time. The founder, the "extravagant, egotistical, eccentric", and crucially possessed of "Irresistable charm", Alex Devine talked of the ABC of progressive schools, Abbotsholme, Bedales and Clayesmore.”
and two days later, he also wrote:
“According to the register in which he is Number 81, he entered the school in May 1900. There is no indication of when he left. Both parents dead and his guardian, an uncle is listed as P.S Darnell, Coxhill House, Chobham, Surrey and he it also says he has two brothers, one 18, the other 15 (Philip is listed as age last birthday: 14 on 5th Feb 1900) and one sister aged 17. He attended Mr Graham's Prep School at St Leonards and Mr Morgan(?)(looks more like Morjum)Prep School, Connaught House, Weymouth.
“Your conjectures would fit in with the nature of the school at that time, which I think looked to the the whole boy, rather than just the academic, character building and stress on the individual, long before other public schools took these things up.”
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TFPL, June 2019: I have at last found him in the 1911 census. He was indexed on FindMyPast as Philip L T Sybbe, easy mistakes in transcription from a flowery hand. I've told Find My Past. He was boarding with a family at Fonton Guernsey, St Andrew, Guernsey, Channel Islands where the man of the hose was a fruit grower and said he, Philip, was of Private means. I wonder if he took on the business in later life or if he just continued to live there, working to some extent on the business but not running it. He gave his father's birth place as Oxfordshire but how was he to know it was Hampshire?
From his probate index entry he was still living at Le Foulon St Andrew's Guernsey which at least says that he had not moved in fourteen years. I'm tempted to get a copy of his will to see what more it contains. I do know that the bulk of his estate was left to his middle brother Richard.
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1906-1925, had a fruit farm on Sark. There is a picture of him there in one of Reginald Cecil's photograph albums.
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St Peter's Baptism Register:
"1886 Feb 6 POWYS-LYBBE Philip Lybbe s. William Reginald Lybbe, gentleman & Sarah, The Croft, Castle St. privately rec'd into the Church , 7 Apr 1886 AWR"
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On 9th Feb 1886, this notice of his birth appeared in The Standard:
“POWYS-LYBBE-Feb 5, the wife of W. R. L. Powys-Lybbe, Esq, Mayor of Wallingford, of a son.”
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In the 1901 census he was recorded as "Philip Lybbe Powys LYBE" at Clayemore School, Clay Hill, Enfield, Middlesex, a boarder and scholar, aged 16 and born in Wallingford Oxon.
TFPL, May 2004: In the 1891 census he was aged 5 (correct) and living with his mother, step-father and siblings at The Bungalow, Burghfield, Nr Newbury, Berks.
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March 2007: Tony Chew, the History master and archivist of Claymores School, Enfield has found his records from 1900 to 1904 and is sending a photo or two. He wrote:
“Any idea why he went to Clayesmore? The school was only 4 years old in 1900 and had a bit of a reputation as "Clayesmore Reformatory" because it took on "misfits" and pupils who had been asked to leave other public schools! Your ancestor certainly had some rum school contemporaries. It was also rather successful one suspects, because the public schools were becoming alarmed at the competition. "It must keep its place as a "special school" for faddy parents whose children were not quite normal or who were unnatural enough to like that sort of thing". Effectively it was a progressive school before its time. The founder, the "extravagant, egotistical, eccentric", and crucially possessed of "Irresistable charm", Alex Devine talked of the ABC of progressive schools, Abbotsholme, Bedales and Clayesmore.”
and two days later, he also wrote:
“According to the register in which he is Number 81, he entered the school in May 1900. There is no indication of when he left. Both parents dead and his guardian, an uncle is listed as P.S Darnell, Coxhill House, Chobham, Surrey and he it also says he has two brothers, one 18, the other 15 (Philip is listed as age last birthday: 14 on 5th Feb 1900) and one sister aged 17. He attended Mr Graham's Prep School at St Leonards and Mr Morgan(?)(looks more like Morjum)Prep School, Connaught House, Weymouth.
“Your conjectures would fit in with the nature of the school at that time, which I think looked to the the whole boy, rather than just the academic, character building and stress on the individual, long before other public schools took these things up.”
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TFPL, June 2019: I have at last found him in the 1911 census. He was indexed on FindMyPast as Philip L T Sybbe, easy mistakes in transcription from a flowery hand. I've told Find My Past. He was boarding with a family at Fonton Guernsey, St Andrew, Guernsey, Channel Islands where the man of the hose was a fruit grower and said he, Philip, was of Private means. I wonder if he took on the business in later life or if he just continued to live there, working to some extent on the business but not running it. He gave his father's birth place as Oxfordshire but how was he to know it was Hampshire?
From his probate index entry he was still living at Le Foulon St Andrew's Guernsey which at least says that he had not moved in fourteen years. I'm tempted to get a copy of his will to see what more it contains. I do know that the bulk of his estate was left to his middle brother Richard.
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Will notes for Philip Lybbe Powys-Lybbe
His probate index:
POWYS-LYBBE Philip Lybbe of Le Foulon St Andrew's Guernsey died 30 January 1925 Probate London 2 May to Edward Foulger Pye-Smith solicitor and Edward Reedmond Morres Fruit grower.
Effects £6094 4s. 1d.
Edward Redmond Morres was Philip's second cousin once removed, being thirteen years older than Philip. Edward also was a fruit grower on Guernsey.
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POWYS-LYBBE Philip Lybbe of Le Foulon St Andrew's Guernsey died 30 January 1925 Probate London 2 May to Edward Foulger Pye-Smith solicitor and Edward Reedmond Morres Fruit grower.
Effects £6094 4s. 1d.
Edward Redmond Morres was Philip's second cousin once removed, being thirteen years older than Philip. Edward also was a fruit grower on Guernsey.
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