Richard Gibson (priest)

Richard Hudson Gibson was Archdeacon of Suffolk from 1892 to 1901.[1]

Gibson was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.[2] Ordained in 1851, his first posts were curacies at St Martin at Palace, Norwich then St Mary, Rickinghall Superior.[3] He was the incumbent at St James, East Cowes from 1864 to 1868 when he became Rector of Lound, a post he held for the rest of his life. He was Rural Dean of Lothingland from 1874 until his appointment as Archdeacon.[4]

He died on 19 January 1904.[5]

  1. ^ Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Friday, Jan 04, 1901; pg. 7; Issue 36343
  2. ^ Venn, John & Venn, John Archibald. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, Cambridge University Press Part II vol. iii p42
  3. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1898 p516: London, Horace Cox, 1898
  4. ^ ‘GIBSON, Rev. Richard Hudson’’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 16 Jan 2017
  5. ^ Obituary. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Jan 19, 1904; pg. 4; Issue 37294