The Funds of this Memorial are derived from the interest accruing from a sum of money given by the late MRS. GIBB of Glasgow, to perpetuate the Memory of her beloved son
ELIAS JOHN WILKINSON GIBB,
and to promote those researches into the History, Literature, Philosophy, and Religion of the Turks, Persians, and Arabs to which, from his youth upwards, until his premature and deeply lamented death in his 45th year on December 5, 1901, his life was devoted.
تِلْكَ آثَارُنَا تَدُلُّ عَلَيْنَا * فَٱنْظُرُوا بَعْدَنَا الي ٱلاَثَارِ
“The worker pays his debt to Death;
His work lives on, nay, quickeneth.”
The following memorial verse is contributed by `Abdu´l-Ḥaqq Ḥámid Bey of the Imperial Ottoman Embassy in London, one of the Founders of the New School of Turkish Literature, and for many years an intimate friend of the deceased.
جمله يارانى وفاسيله ايدركن نطييب
کندی عمرنده وفاگورمدی اول ذاتِ اديب
گنج ايکن اولمش ايدی اوجِ کماله واصل