Background
GIBBS, Vicary was born on May 12, 1853 in Hampstead. 2nd surviving son of 1st B. Aldenham and Louisa, daughter of William Adams, Doctor of Laws.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
GIBBS, Vicary was born on May 12, 1853 in Hampstead. 2nd surviving son of 1st B. Aldenham and Louisa, daughter of William Adams, Doctor of Laws.
He was educated at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1876 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Classical Moderations.
The Honorary He sat in the House of Commons from 1892 to 1904. Gibbs came from an old Devon family. His great-grandfather was Antony Gibbs, brother of Sir Vicary Gibbs who became Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
At the 1892 general election he was returned to Parliament for Street Albans division of Hertfordshire.
He was returned unopposed in 1895 and 1900, but was disqualified in February 1904. However, in so doing he was disqualified from the House of Commons, under provisions which debarred MPs from accepting contracts from the Crown.
He told his constituents on 18 January that he would resign from the Commons by taking the Chiltern Hundreds, and then present himself for re-election. Both Gibbs and the Liberal Party candidate John Bamford Slack were by then campaigning in the constituency, but The Times newspaper reported on 20 January that the by-election was unlikely to be contested by the Liberals.
However, since Gibbs was already disqualified, he did not need to take the usual step of disqualifying himself by taking the Chiltern Hundreds, and in a letter of 1 February 1904 he informed the Speaker of the contract that "I am advised that by so doing I have, under an Acting of George III, vacated my seat in Parliament".
His letter was read to the Commons on 2 February, and the writ was moved the following day. In the meantime, the Liberals had decided to contest the seat, and at a meeting on 24 January they had adopted Slack as their candidate. At the 1906 general election Gibbs stood unsuccessfully in Bradford Central, campaigning as a tariff reformer, but never returned to the Commons.
Gibbs was also a Justice of the Peace for Hertfordshire, and the first co-author of the second edition of The Complete Peerage.
Published beginning in 1910. While he retired well before it completed publication, his extensive notes are represented throughout the volumes.
He was a director of numerous companies, and the chairman of National Provident Institution. At his country estate of Aldenham near Elstree in Hertfordshire, he cultivated a garden which became notable for its flowering trees and shrubs.
Conservative.
25th United Kingdom Parliament. 26th United Kingdom Parliament. 27th United Kingdom Parliament]
He was a member of the Tariff Commission and of the Council of the Industrial Freedom League, an organisation which opposed the involvement of the state and municipalities in trading companies.