| • 1881: Pasteur invents innoculation | • 1884: Speaker Brand retires | • 1884: Fabian Society founded | • 1885: Glynde & Beddingham Cricket Club founded | • 1887: Queen Victoria's Jubilee | • 1894: Manchester Ship Canal opened | • 1899: Boer War starts | • 1901: Queen Victoria dies | • 1903: 1st aeroplane flight by Wright Bros. | • 1905: Ragged Lands established | • 1909: Introduction of Old Age Pension | • 1912: Sinking of the Titanic | • 1914: Start of 1st World War | • 1916: Battle of the Somme | • 1918: End of 1st World War | • 1919: 1st trans-atlantic flight | • 1920: League of Nations founded | • 1922: Irish Free State founded | • 1924: Lenin dies | • 1926: General Strike | • 1928: Women get the vote | • 1934: Hitler assumes power in Germany | • 1936: Regular BBC TV broadcasts begin | • 1939: Start of 2nd World War | • 1940: Dunkirk evacuation | • 1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbour | • 1944: "D-Day" landings in France | • 1945: End of 2nd World War | • 1946: USA tests atom bomb at Bikini Island | • 1947: Sound Barrier broken | • 1948: NHS founded | • 1950: Korean War starts | • 1951: Suez "Crisis" | • 1953: Queen Elizabeth II crowned | • 1954: Bannister runs 1st 4 minute mile | • 1955: ITV starts broadcasting | • 1955: Glynde Place opened to the public | • 1957: 1st dog in space | • 1958: Gatwick Airport opened | • 1959: M1, the 1st motoway, opened | • 1961: 1st man in space | • 1963: US President Kennedy assassinated |
Anstice Gibbs (usually known as Nancy), sixth of the ten children of Antony and Janet Gibbs of Tyntesfield, Somerset
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