GIBBONS, Sir Sills John, 1 Baronet (son of Richard Gibbons of Sittingbourne, Kent). b. Chatham 1809; hop merchant in London; alderman for Castle Baynard ward 1862–75, sheriff 1865–6, lord mayor 1871–2; created baronet 11 March 1872. d. Hastings 11 Jany. 1876. I.L.N. lix, 457, 458 (1871), portrait.
GIBBS, Sir Benjamin Thomas Brandreth (youngest son of Thomas Gibbs of Ampthill, Beds.) b. London 1821; steward of yard of R. Agricultural soc. 1839–42, hon. director 1843–74, vice president 1871–85; hon. sec. of Smithfield club 1843–85, presented with a silver candelabra 12 Dec. 1855; associated with agricultural sections of national exhibitions in London 1851 and 1862, in Paris 1855, 1867 and 1878, in Vienna 1873, in Philadelphia 1875; commander of order of Francis Joseph 1873; officer of Legion of honour 1878; knighted for his agricultural services, first person so rewarded, by the Queen at Windsor 27 Nov. 1878; sec. of Fisheries exhibition, London 1883; author of The Smithfield club, a condensed history 1857. d. Mossley house, Sinclair road, West Kensington park 2 June 1885. Journ. of Royal Agric. Soc. xxi, 611–20 (1885), portrait; The Biograph, March 1882 pp. 259–61; I.L.N. xxvii, 725–26 (1855), portrait.
GIBBS, James (son of Michael Gibbs of Walbrook, London, merchant). b. 25 July 1825; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and Haileybury; entered Bombay civil service 1846; barrister I.T. 6 June 1864; judge of high court Bombay, Feb. 1866 to 1879; vice chancellor of Univ. of Bombay 1870–79; mem. of governor general’s council 10 May 1880 to 1885, pres. 1884; C.S.I. 1878; C.I.E. 1878. d. 58 Courtfield gardens, South Kensington, London 30 Oct. 1886.
GIBBS, Joseph. b. Staffordshire 1798; established extensive sawing and cutting works at Crayford Mills, Kent and London; invented “Gibbs’ elbow joint” chiefly used for construction of inlaid floors; erected much machinery here and in Holland for manufacturing purposes and lifting water; M.I.C.E. 6 April 1852; author of Considerations relative to sewage of London 1849; Cotton cultivation in its various details 1862. d. 11 Feb. 1864. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxiv, 528–31 (1865).
GIBBS, Matilda Blanche (youngest dau. of Sir Thomas Crawley-Boevey, 3 Baronet 1769–1847). Founded St. Michael and All Angels’ Home for Consumptives at Axbridge 1878, St. Michael’s Home at Cheddar and St. John’s Convalescent Home at Tyntesfield, all in Somerset. (m. 1 Aug. 1839 Wm. Gibbs 1790–1875). d. Tyntesfield 22 Sep. 1887 aged 69, personalty declared at £483,683 7s. 4d.
GIBBS, Mrs. (dau. of Mr. Graddon). b. Taunton 1804; first sang at Vauxhall 1821, in Dublin 1823; first appeared in London at Drury Lane Oct. 1824 as Susanna in the Marriage of Figaro; second only to Miss Stephens in ballad singing and to Miss Paton in bravura singing; sang in New Orleans, Dec. 1835, in New York Nov. 1836, returned to England; re-appeared in New York 1855 with an entertainment of song and anecdote entitled The Lakes of Killarney. (m. about 1827 Alexander Gibbs of firm of Graddon and Gibbs, pianoforte makers); date of death not known. J. N. Ireland’s Records of New York stage ii, 180–1 (1867); Cumberland’s Minor Theatre vol. iii, portrait; Le Bal Costumé, polka composed by Mrs. Gibbs (1854), portrait.
GIBBS, William (2 son of Antony Gibbs of Exeter, merchant 1756–1815). b. 22 May 1790; partner with his elder brother as merchants in Cadiz and London, head of the firm on his brother’s death 21 Aug. 1842; held for some years monopoly of the guano islands; built the chapel at Keble college, Oxford, dedicated 25 April 1876. d. Tyntesfield near Bristol 3 April 1875, personalty sworn under £800,000, 2 Oct. 1875.
GIBSON, Alexander. b. Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire 24 Oct. 1800; M.D. Edin.; assistant surgeon H.E.I.C. service 1825; passed in Hindustani, Mahrati and Gujerati; superintendent of botanical garden at Dapuri 1838; conservator of forests in Bombay 1847–60; F.L.S. 19 April 1853; author of Forest Reports Bombay 1849–55; Bombay Flora 1861; A handbook to forests of Bombay 1863. d. 16 Jany. 1867. Proc. Linnean Soc. (1866–67) p. 33.
GIBSON, Alexander Craig. b. Harrington, Cumberland 17 March 1813; F.S.A.; L.M. Edin.; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1846; L.S.A. 1855; in practice at Branthwaite and Ullock 1841–43, at Coniston 1843–49, at Hawkshead 1849–57, at Bebington, Cheshire 1857–72; contributed to Kendal Mercury, Tait’s Mag., and to Trans. of Historic Soc. of Lancashire and Cheshire; author of The old man, or ravings and ramblings round Coniston, Kendal 1849; The Folk-speech of Cumberland, stories and rhymes in dialect of West Border counties, Carlisle 1869; wrote The Lockerbie Lycke, a ballad in Annandale dialect. d. Bebington 12 June 1874.
GIBSON, David Cooke. b. Edinburgh 4 March 1827; artist in Edin. 1844–52, in London 1852 to death; exhibited 5 domestic pictures at the R.A. 1855–57; wrote Angelo and Zelica and other poems. d. London 5 Oct. 1856. Struggles of a young artist, being a memoir of D. C. Gibson (anon. by W. Macduff) 1858, portrait.