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GIBBINS, FREDERICK WILLIAM (1861 - 1937), Quaker industrialist Born at Neath, 1 April 1861, eldest son of Frederick Joseph Gibbins and Caroline Gibbins, prominent members of the Society of Friends. He was educated at the Quaker School, Scarborough. He married 1898, Sarah Jennette Rhys, Sgubor-fawr, Penderyn, and had two sons. F. W. Gibbins was an outstanding figure in the commercial life of South Wales, particularly in the tinplate industry. He entered the
HAM, PETER WILLIAM (1947 - 1975), musician and songwriter radio engineer, he played in a semi-professional group variously billed as The Panthers, The Black Velvets and The Wild Ones, often opening for big touring acts. In 1965, the group became The Iveys - after a street near Swansea High Street Station - with a stable line-up of Pete, second guitarist David Jenkins, bassist Ron Griffiths and drummer Mike Gibbins. They accepted an approach by would-be

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