Background
George Stacey Gibson was born in Saffron Walden, Essex on 20 July 1818, the only child of Wyatt George Gibson (1790–1862) and Deborah, daughter of George Stacey of Alton, Hampshire.
George Stacey Gibson was born in Saffron Walden, Essex on 20 July 1818, the only child of Wyatt George Gibson (1790–1862) and Deborah, daughter of George Stacey of Alton, Hampshire.
The Gibson family of Saffron Walden owned a brewery, an extensive chain of public houses, a bank and a number of substantial residential properties in the town. As a botanist, Gibson discovered various plants, was made a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1847, and published Flora of Essex. However, after the death of his father had to focus on running the Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, of which he was the sole proprietor.
In 1874, he had William Eden Nesfield build a new bank on the east side of the Market Place.
lieutenant is now a branch of Barclays Bank and Grade II* listed.
