GIBSON, Thomas ‹ LBT 28401 ›
Badges
Floruit 1535 (B) — 1562 (B); Male, married
Life Events
| Event | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Death | 1562 |
Family Relationships
| LBTNumber | Name | Relationship | Occupation | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6372 | GIBSON, (Unknown) ‹ LBT 06372 › | spouse | ||
| 35783 | GIBSON, (Daughter) ‹ LBT 35783 › | child |
Occupations (2)
| Occupation | Comment |
|---|---|
| Printer | Duff, E.G. (1905) |
| Medial practitioner | Duff, E.G. (1905) |
SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS
Transcriptions
Dictionary of National Biography - article by Ian Gadd
Bib.Soc., Hand-lists (1913), contrib. A.W.Pollard.
Duff, E.G. (1905), p.55
GIBSON (THOMAS), printer in London, was born at Morpeth, Northumberland, and perhaps educated at Cambridge. He apparently only carried on business between the years 1535 and 1539. In 1535 he printed a Concordance to the New Testament [B.M.] of which he appears to have been the compiler, and in 1536 a book on the Plague [Lambeth]. On the completion of The institution of a christian man by the bishops, Latimer endeavoured to persuade Cromwell to entrust the printing to Gibson but without success and in 1537 it was issued by Berthelet { BERTHELET, Thomas ( - 1555) ‹ LBT 06915 › }. In 1538 Gibson is mentioned in the minute book of the Court of Aldermen. "Item. That Mr. Chambetleyn shall pay unto the prynter Thomas Gibson for diverse papers and other bookes prynted by him concernynge the thamyse and ward mote enquests li.s. iiii d." [Bibl. Soc. Trans., VI, 17.] In 1539 he printed a Herbal and a Paraphrase on the Psalms. [B. M.] Herbert gives altogether five books as printed by him. The woodcut with the initials T. G., used by Gibson as a device was later on in the possession of John Day { DAY, John (1522 - 1584) ‹ LBT 07316 › } and it has been supposed that he was Gibson's apprentice, but this was not the case. Gibson seems to have ceased printing in 1539, but continued in London until Mary's reign when he fled to Geneva with his wife and daughter. In Elizabeth's reign he returned and practised medicine, dying in London in 1562. [D.N.B.]