 George Abraham Gibbs , 1st Baron Wraxall served as a colonel in the North Somerset Yeomanry and served heroically in the Boer War campaign . On his return to England he married the Hon. Victoria Florence de Burgh Long ; the couple moved to <unk> St George in Devon . Between 1918 and 1928 , he served as MP for Bristol West and was elevated to the peerage as Baron Wraxall in 1928 , for which his appointment as Treasurer of the Household had been instrumental . 
