Background
Gibbons was born on 25 August 1837 to Wolverhampton-born manufacturing chemist Henry Gibbons and his wife Elizabeth (née Saunders) from Wednesfield, Staffordshire.
Gibbons was born on 25 August 1837 to Wolverhampton-born manufacturing chemist Henry Gibbons and his wife Elizabeth (née Saunders) from Wednesfield, Staffordshire.
He remarried in 1898 to Eliza Grey Ballenden of Sedgley, Staffordshire. Gibbons was county magistrate for the Sedgley Petty Sessions Division. He was elected as County Councillor for North Bilston in 1891, the same year that the family took up residence at Ellowes Hall, a stately home located in Sedgley, Staffordshire.
Gibbons died on 25 April 1919 and was buried at All Saints Church, Sedgley.
His widow sold Ellowes Hall later the same year.
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He was elected as member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South at the 3 February 1898 by-election following the death of Charles Pelham Villiers on 16 January 1898.