TIBBENHAM, Donald Alfred

1910 - 2001

Donald Alfred Tibbenham was born at Lincoln, Lincolnshire on 15 November 1910, second son of Louis John Tibbenham (1 September 1878-26 June 1968), a manager & secretary of an engineering works, and his wife Eveline May née Felgate (1 May 1879-15 April 1944), as Louis John Tibbenham, they married at Ipswich in January 1902. In 1911, Donald was living at 10 Temple Road, Stowmarket with his parents, 32-year-old Lewis and 30-year-old Eveline, who were both born at Ipswich and a 3-year-old sibling Frank Eric, who was born at Lincoln on 25 September 1907 and in 1914 Louis Tibbenham founded the Suffolk Iron Foundry in Stowmarket. In 1939 his parent were still living at 10 Temple Road, Stowmarket when Donald was an unmarried publicity organiser, living at 112-114 Thorpe Road, Norwich and he married at Bedford in 1943, Margaret Alice Snell (11 July 1911-8 September 1991) and their daughter was Zena Tibbenham. Donald was a committee member of Free Painters and Sculptors from 1962, with which group he frequently exhibited. Donald Alfred Tibbenham died at Norwich on 24 April 2001.

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