Gibson Joseph

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Biografie:
Joseph Gibson (1877-1953)
The Club has had severe losses of late among its members living in the Lake district, Glover, Ling, and Gibson all dying within a few months of one another. Major Gibson was the senior of the three in length of membership, having been elected to the Club in March 1899.
Born March 27, 1877, he was the son of Henry Ernest Hollins, of Mansfield and Mary Anne, daughter of Joseph Gibson of Whelprigg, Kirk by Lonsdale. He took the name of Gibson in 1898, after inheriting Whelprigg from an uncle.
After education at Haileybury and Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A. 1st Class Law 1"'ripos, 1899), he entered the well-known firm of chartered accountants, Price, Waterhouse & Co., but left them in 1914. He served in France during the first war from 1915-18, in the R.A.S.C., being twice mentioned in despatches and winning the D.S.O . in 1917.
He was a J.P. for Westmorland and Lancashire and sat frequently on the bench of magistrates at Kirkby Lonsdale and at Hornby. Much interested in education, he was for many years Chairman of the Governors of Sedbergh, and a Governor also of Giggleswick and other schools. He served for over thirty years as a member of· the South Westmorland Rural Council and, since 1936, had been a member of the Westmorland C.C.
An all-round sportsman and one of the best shots in his county, he was also a keen angler. It is unfortunate that few details seem to have been preserved of his climbing. He first visited the Alps in 1896, when the Wetterhorn, Jungfrau, Monte Rosa and Aig. du Midi were the principal ascents made; in 1897 he returned to the Oberland and Valais climbing Eiger, Mönch, Finsteraarhorn, Dom, Strahlhorn, Rothorn, Obergabelhorn, and Weisshorn, as well as crossing a number of passes.
In 1898 he records ascents of Monte Cristallo, Croda da Lago, Kleine Zinne, Ortler, Cevedale, and Bernina, amongst others. In 1900 he accounts for the Meije, but after that the record is blank.
He was a very active man in all his affairs and had been closely associated with the public life of Westmorland for fifty years, only curtailing his engagements somewhat about two years ago, owing to failing health.
T. S. Blakeney
Quelle: Alpine Journal Vol. 59. Nr. 288, 1954, Seite 333


Geboren am:
27.03.1877
Gestorben am:
1953