Background
GYBBON-SPILSBURY, Albert was born in 1849.
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Albert GYBBON-SPILSBURY
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Education
Louvain, Belgium.
Career
Joined Northampton Militia, 1869. Served in 3rd and 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment and Thames Military Division. Royal Engineers till 1898.
Army Interpreter (French and Spanish) for 15 years.
Obtained a treaty from the 47 independent tribes of Sus for exclusive trade and mining rights of that country, to which he led an expedition on South.Y. Tourmaline, 1897. The Moorish man-of-war Hassanie endeavoured to seize his yacht, but was beaten oil".
Subsequently arrested in London on a charge of lighting the soldiers of the Sultan, but after a prolonged struggle to secure trial by jury, in which he succeeded, was acquitted by the High Court of Gibraltar, 1899. Shortly after appointed Chief Administrator of Nyassa Company he took out an expedition to East Africa.
Laid out the town of Portuguese Amelia, Pemba Bay.
Explored and surveyed the country from the coast to Lake Nyassa, where he established Fort Arroyo. Managing Director of the Portuguese Argentine Great Central Railways Company, Limited. 5th son of late Francis GybbonSpilsbury, of Walsall, Stalls.
Membership
Club: Cocoa Tree.
Connections
Spouse 1909,daughter of late Captain A. Nelson Fairman, Royal Navy, and widow of Oliver Lash.
