Background
He was the son of George Gibbes, Doctor of Divinity, rector of Woodborough, Wiltshire.
He was the son of George Gibbes, Doctor of Divinity, rector of Woodborough, Wiltshire.
From the King Edward VI School, Southampton under Richard Mant, he went to Exeter College, Oxford, and graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1792. He was elected a fellow of Magdalen College, and graduated Bachelor of Medicine in 1796 and Doctor of Medicine
1771–1851) was an English physician and writer In 1799. Gibbes was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1796. He joined the Royal College of Physicians in 1803, and was made a fellow the year after.
In 1817 he delivered the Harveian oration before the College.
He practised at Bath, Somerset, where he was a prominent figure, and in 1804 he was elected physician to the Bath Hospital. Later he became physician extraordinary to Queen Charlotte, and in 1820 was knighted by George IV. Gibbes in 1835 gave up practice and went to live at Cheltenham.
He died at Sidmouth on 23 June 1851, aged 80. He was twice married, first to a daughter of Edward Sealey of Bridgwater, who died in 1822.
And secondly, in 1826, to Marianne, daughter of Captain T. Chapman, 23rd regiment.
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He took part in municipal business at Bath, and was a member of the corporation until 1834.