GIBSON, John Thomas. Entered Madras army 1800; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841; colonel 1 European regiment 27 Feb. 1842 to death. d. Kotagherry, Madras 30 June 1851.
GIBSON, Solomon (younger brother of John Gibson, R.A. 1790–1866). Passed his life in Liverpool; modelled a small figure of Mercury when aged 16 which is his best work; exhibited 2 sculptures at R.A. 1816–22; a Greek, Latin and Welsh scholar; wrote many papers on ancient Welsh literature; lived chiefly on the bounty of his brother; fell down dead entering his hotel in Paris 29 Jany. 1866.
GIBSON, Thomas Milner (son of Thomas Milner Gibson, major 37 foot, d. 1807). b. Port of Spain, Trinidad 3 Sep. 1806; educ. Charterhouse 1819 and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1830; M.P. Ipswich 1837–39; M.P. Manchester 1841–57; M.P. Ashton-under-Lyne 1857–68; a free trader 1837 and a prominent orator of Anti-corn law league; V.P. of board of trade 1846–48; P.C. 8 July 1846; moved vote of censure on Palmerston for his law of conspiracy bill which caused resignation of ministry 19 Feb. 1858; president of poor law board 1859; president of board of trade 1859–66; assumed additional surname of Milner 7 Feb. 1839; president of Assoc. for repeal of taxes on knowledge 1850, on repeal received testimonial 1 Oct. 1861; amateur yachtsman, navigating his own vessel, the last person who cruised in the Mediterranean with a pass from the dey of Algiers 1830. (m. 23 Feb. 1832 Susanna Arethusa only child of Rev. Sir T. G. Cullum, she was a leader in society and an advocate of mesmerism and spiritualism, d. Paris 23 Feb. 1885 aged 71). d. on board his yacht Resolute at Algiers 25 Feb. 1884. bur. Theberton churchyard 13 March. G. H. Francis’s Orators of the age (1847) 294–300; J. Evans’s Lancashire authors (1850) 101–5; I.L.N. 31 Dec. 1842 p. 541, portrait, 8 March 1884 pp. 217, 227, portrait.
GIBSON, Rev. William (son of James Gibson of Ballymena, co. Antrim, merchant). b. Ballymena 8 May 1808; Presbyterian minister of First Ballybay, co. Monaghan 1834; colleague of Rev. S. Hannay in Rosemary st. ch. Belfast 1840; professor of christian ethics in the assembly’s coll. Belfast 1847; moderator of the general assembly 1859; author of The position of the church of Ireland and the duty of presbyterians in reference to it 1835; The year of grace, a history of the Ulster revival of 1859, Edin. 1860; chief founder of the Banner of Ulster newspaper 1842. d. Dublin 8 June 1867.
GIBSON, William Sidney. b. Parson’s Green, Fulham, Middlesex 1814; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1845; registrar of Newcastle upon Tyne district court of bankruptcy 1843 to 1870 when granted sum of £1000 on abolition of the court; M.A. Durham 1857; F.S.A. 24 Feb. 1842; F.G.S.; author of The history of the monastery founded at Tynemouth 2 vols. 1846–7; Lord Lyndhurst In memoriam 1865, new ed. 1869 and 11 other books. d. Grosvenor hotel, London 3 Jany. 1871. bur. in disused burial ground of the Old Priory, Tynemouth. Colburn’s New monthly mag. April 1871 p. 244.
GIBSONE, John Charles Hope (son of general D. A. Gibsone). b. 21 May 1810; cornet 7 dragoon guards 1830, lieut. col. 1847–49; lieut. col. 17 light dragoons 1860–62; col. of 8 hussars 10 Dec. 1868, of 17 lancers 22 Sep. 1875 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Redcross lodge, Leamington 18 July 1884.
GIFFARD, Sir George Markham (4 son of the succeeding). b. Portsmouth dockyard 4 Nov. 1813; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., fellow 1832; B.C.L. 1841; barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1840; practised in court of chancery; Q.C. Jany. 1859, bencher of his inn 1859; vice chancellor March 1868; knighted at Windsor Castle 14 May 1868; a lord justice of appeal 1 Jany. 1869 to death; P.C. 4 Feb. 1869. d. 4 Princes gardens, Hyde park, London 13 July 1870. Foss’s Biographia Juridica (1870) 299, 792; I.L.N. lii, 320 (1868), portrait, lvii, 107, 259 (1870).
GIFFARD, John. b. 1766; entered navy 25 April 1780; captain 19 Oct. 1796; lieut. governor of royal naval college at Portsmouth 23 March 1807 to 12 Aug. 1819; admiral 23 Nov. 1841. d. Southampton 25 Sep. 1855.
GIFFARD, John Walter de Longueville (eld. son of the succeeding). b. 1817; ed. at Merton coll. Ox., B.A. and M.A. 1843; barrister I.T. 19 Nov. 1843; reported in V.C. Stuart’s court 1852–70; judge of county courts, circuit 12 (West Riding of Yorkshire), 15 March 1875, of circuit 58 (Devonshire) March 1883 to death; author of Reports of cases adjudged in court of chancery by Sir John Stuart 1858–1865, 5 vols. 1860–71; author with John Smale of Reports of cases adjudged in court of chancery by Sir John Stuart 1852–1857, 3 vols. 1855–58. d. North Huish near Ivybridge, Devon 20 Oct. 1888.
GIFFARD, Stanley Lees (youngest son of John Giffard of Dromartin, co. Dublin 1747–1819). b. Dublin 4 Aug. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1807, M.A. 1811; barrister M.T. 24 May 1811; edited St. James’s Chronicle some years; edited Standard newspaper 1827 to death; contributed articles to Quarterly Review and Blackwood’s Mag. d. Folkestone 6 Nov. 1858.