Background
Gibbs was the son of the Revd Reginald Gibbs and his wife Lucia McCausand, daughter of Conally Thomas McCausland of Drenagh.
Gibbs was the son of the Revd Reginald Gibbs and his wife Lucia McCausand, daughter of Conally Thomas McCausland of Drenagh.
Keble College; Ripon College Cuddesdon.
His father was Vicar of Clifton Hampden. He was educated at Lancing and Keble College, Oxford. In 1926, he was ordained and began as a Curate at Saint Mary"s Church, Putney He moved to Rhodesia where he was Chaplain to the Bishop of Southern Rhodesia, then Rector of Bulawayo and finally the Archdeacon of Matabeleland.
Moving to South Africa, he was then Rector of Street Saviour, Claremont, Cape Town and after that Dean of Cape Town.
In 1954 he returned to England and was Dean of Chester until his death. Gibbs married Edith Marjorie Ward, daughter of John Ward of Long Wittenham.