Sir George Gervis, Bart. 
(1827-1896)
7 June 1861

Volume 4, page 33, sitting number 4205.

George Elliott Tapps-Gervis was the eldest son of Sir George William Tapps-Gervis (1795-1842), 2nd baronet, who founded Bournemouth by laying out the land on the east side of the Bourne stream in 1836. He succeeded his father on 26 October 1842.

Born in Dover on 1 September 1827, he was educated at Highgate school 1842-1844 and metriculated on 4 June 1846 at Christ Church, Oxford. He assumed the name of Meyrick after that of Tapps-Gervis by royal licence on 16 March 1876, his father having previously taken the name of Gervis in addition to that of Tapps in 1835.

In 1878 he was sheriff of Anglesey. 

Sir George Elliott Meyrick Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick died at his residence, Hinton Admiral near Christchurch, on 7 March 1896, after a long illness. He left an estate valued at £19,755. 

According to his obituary in The Times (9 March 1896): 'He was the lord of the manor of Christchurch and ground landlord of almost the whole of Bournemouth, besides being a considerable landowner at Bodorgan, Anglesey. [...] Sir George married, in 1849, Fanny, daughter of Mr Christopher Harland, of Ashbourne (she died in 1892), and is succeeded by his son, George Augustus Elliott, who was born in 1855, and married, in 1884, Jacintha, daughter of the late Mr C.P. Phipps, M.P., of Chalcot, Wilts.'