Henry Stanley Tibbs

Henry Stanley Tibbs (died 5 February 1943, aged 65) was an Irish-British Anglican priest briefly interned in the Second World War under Defence Regulation 18B for his alleged pro-Nazi sympathies.

Henry Tibbs was the rector of the parish of Teigh, Rutland, England. On 8 July 1940, Tibbs was arrested after it was claimed that he was a fascist. He was released on 19 August, being considered harmless.

Tibbs was born in King's County, Ireland and a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. He married Evelyn Mary Livesey in England in 1904. Tibbs was the rector of Teigh from 1925, preaching to 72 people. During his time as parish priest, he became the subject of gossip and fell out with several people, some of whom started to spread rumours that he was a fascist.

Tibbs was arrested on 8 July 1940 and was sent to Liverpool Prison. Amongst the people who claimed he was a fascist was Douglas Bartlett, vicar of a neighbouring parish, an estranged friend of Tibbs. He claimed that Tibbs once hid two "members of the Gestapo" in his rectory and that he was "conveying his Nazi views to his parishioners which had now developed into a defeatist theme by describing the losses made by the enemy on our Naval forces as of a far more serious character than that disclosed by the British official reports." Bartlett also alleged that Tibbs said to his (Bartlett's) children that "Hitler and Goering were the finest men in the world".

Other people claimed that Tibbs said that Winston Churchill was, "a drug addict and a dictator of the vilest kind, in fact the worst dictator in the world and in the pay of the American Jews." He was also accused of saying that Germany was "our natural friend", that he had taken interest in local aerodromes and that "Tibbs substitutes Edward, Duke of Windsor for the name of the King."

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