Gibbs Crawfurd Antrobus (17 June 1793 – 21 May 1861) was a British diplomat and politician.

Biography

The brother of Sir Edmund Antrobus, 2nd Baronet, Antrobus's wealthy family were long-established in

Congleton Congleton is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. The town is by the River Dane, south of Manchester and north of Stoke on Trent. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 26,482. Top ...

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. His mother died giving birth to him, and his father died later of a riding accident, having been in a coma since before his son's birth. He was educated at

Eton Eton most commonly refers to Eton College, a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. Eton may also refer to: Places *Eton, Berkshire, a town in Berkshire, England * Eton, Georgia, a town in the United States * Éton, a commune in the Meuse dep ...

, at

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, and then at

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. He married firstly, on 25 June 1827, Jane Trotter (who died on 24 November 1829), daughter of Sir Coutts Trotter, 1st baronet, of Westerville, Lincolnshire, and secondly, on 12 January 1832, Charlotte Crofton, daughter of Sir Edward Crofton, 3rd baronet, of Mote, County Roscommon. In 1816 he joined the diplomatic service, serving in the United States until 1821. In the general election in 1820 he was elected in his absence as a

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(MP) for the

rotten borough A rotten or pocket borough, also known as a nomination borough or proprietorial borough, was a parliamentary borough or constituency in England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom before the Reform Act 1832, which had a very small electorat ...

of Aldborough, in the interest of the

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. In the 1826 election he was returned for the rotten borough of

Plympton Erle Plympton is a suburb of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England. It is in origin an ancient stannary town. It was an important trading centre for locally mined tin, and a seaport before the River Plym silted up and trade moved down river to Pl ...

, as a paying guest of the Treby family who controlled the borough. He held the seat until the 1832 general election, when the borough was disenfranchised under the

Reform Act In the United Kingdom, Reform Act is most commonly used for legislation passed in the 19th century and early 20th century to enfranchise new groups of voters and to redistribute seats in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...

. He was

Sheriff of Cheshire This is a list of Sheriffs (and after 1 April 1974, High Sheriffs) of Cheshire. The Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most ...

from 1834 to 1835.

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* (Aldborough) * (Plympton Erle) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Antrobus, Gibbs 1793 births 1861 deaths People from Congleton People educated at Eton College Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge British diplomats Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Plympton Erle UK MPs 1820–1826 UK MPs 1826–1830 UK MPs 1830–1831 UK MPs 1831–1832 Members of Lincoln's Inn Deputy Lieutenants of Cheshire English justices of the peace High Sheriffs of Cheshire