 Throughout his life , William Gibbs and his wife Matilda Blanche Crawley @-@ Boevey ( known as Blanche ) , principally lived in London , for the greater part of his marriage at 16 Hyde Park Gardens , which the family owned until Blanche 's death . But as he travelled regularly on business to the Port of Bristol he required a residence in the area ; thus it was , in 1843 , he came to buy <unk> Place , which he subsequently renamed Tyntesfield . Within a few years of making his purchase , Gibbs began a major program of rebuilding and enlarging of the mansion . 
