John Davies Gilbert (5 December 1811 – 16 April 1854) was a land owner, born in Eastbourne the son of

Davies Gilbert Davies Gilbert (born Davies Giddy, 6 March 1767 – 24 December 1839) was an English engineer, author, and politician. He was elected to the Royal Society on 17 November 1791 and served as President of the Royal Society from 1827 to 1830. He c ...

and Mary Ann Gilbert. John Davies Gilbert and his son, Carew Davies Gilbert played a major role, as landowners, in the development of the town of

Eastbourne Eastbourne () is a town and seaside resort in East Sussex, on the south coast of England, east of Brighton and south of London. Eastbourne is immediately east of Beachy Head, the highest chalk sea cliff in Great Britain and part of the la ...

and also developed

Trelissick Garden Trelissick ( kw, Trelesyk) is a house and garden in the ownership of the National Trust at Feock, near Truro, Cornwall, England. It is located on the B3289 road, just west of King Harry Ferry, and overlooks the estuary known as Carrick Roads. ...

Feock, Cornwall Feock ( ; kw, Lannfyek) is a coastal civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is about south of Truro at the head of Carrick Roads on the River Fal. To the south, the parish is bordered by Restronguet Creek and to th ...

. In 1834 he was elected FRS as his father had been.Royal Society archives for John Davies Gilbert
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High Sheriff of Sussex The office of Sheriff of Sussex was established before the Norman Conquest. The Office of sheriff remained first in precedence in the counties until the reign of Edward VII when an Order in Council in 1908 gave the Lord-Lieutenant the prime office ...

for 1840. He died in Padstow. He had married the Hon. Anne Dorothea Carew, daughter of Sir

Robert Shapland Carew, 1st Baron Carew Robert Shapland Carew, 1st Baron Carew KP (9 March 1787 – 2 June 1856) was an Irish Whig Party politician and landowner. He was born in Dublin, the son of Robert Shapland Carew, also an MP and landowner, and his wife Anne (née Pigott). He wa ...

.Peerage.com website
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