Sir Vicary Gibbs

(1751-1820)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Gibbs, Vicary, Sir, 1751-1820 NRA: Gibbs Sir Vicary (1751-1820) Knight MP Chief Justice of Common Pleas DNB: Gibbs, Sir Vicary (1751-1820), judge and politician LBT ID: ViGibbs1820 VIAF ID: 56477218 LOC ID: nr92034988	B/BAP: 1751-10-27 DIED: 1820-02-08
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Tory MP and attorney-general during the Portland and Perceval governments (1807-12); from 1812 he was a judge in the court of common pleas.
REFERENCES TO Sir Vicary Gibbs: Thomas Creevey to Eleanor Creevey, 24 February 1810 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 2 Francis Hodgson to Henry Drury, 1 September 1811 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 4 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Death and Funeral of the late Mr. Southey” in The Examiner (13 April 1817) 236-37 Found 1: ¶ 2 Galt, John, 1779-1839, “Lord Byron’s Conversations” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 16 (November 1824) 530-40 Found 1: ¶ 6 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) The Examiner—the Author’s Imprisonment. Found 1: ¶ 109 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. XV. 1786-1790 Found 1: ¶ 8 Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Chapter XXVI Found 1: ¶ 1 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 12: Periodical Press Found 1: ¶ 6 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 113 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 4 Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 9 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter V. 1808-1809. Found 1: ¶ 34 Chapter VIII. 1811. Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. VI: 1810