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George Gibbs, 1st Baron Wraxall
George Abraham Gibbs, 1st Baron Wraxall, PC (6 July 1873 – 28 October 1931), was a British Conservative politician.
Educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford Gibbs was the eldest of the seven sons of Major Antony Gibbs and Janet Louisa Merivale, daughter of John Louis Merivale. His grandfather, William Gibbs, was the younger brother of George Henry Gibbs, the father of Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham, while his great-grandfather, Antony Gibbs, was the founder of the firm Antony Gibbs & Sons, bankers and merchants.
== Career ==
In 1906 Gibbs was elected Member of Parliament for Bristol West (succeeding Sir Michael Hicks-Beach), a seat he would hold until 1928. He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Colonial Secretary Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long (his father-in-law) and as a government whip from 1917 to 1921 in the coalition ministry of David Lloyd George. In 1921 he was appointed Treasurer of the Household, a post he continued to hold also under Bonar Law and Baldwin until 1924 and again from 1924 to 1928. Gibbs was admitted to the Privy Council in 1923 and in 1928 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Wraxall, of Clyst St George in the County of Devon. He also served as a colonel in the North Somerset Yeomanry, and was appointed deputy lieutenant of Somerset in 1911.
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