About Sir John Gibbons, 2nd Baronet
Lived 1717 – 1776 (aged 58–59). Sir John Gibbons, 2nd Baronet was a politician and plantation owner.
Sir John Gibbons, 2nd Baronet (c.1717 – 9 July 1776) was a British Member of Parliament.
Gibbons was born in Barbados, the son of Sir William Gibbons, 1st Baronet, speaker of the assembly and lieutenant-general of Barbados.
He represented Stockbridge (1754–1761) and Wallingford (1761–1768) in the House of Commons, whilst at the same time being a member of the Barbados assembly. On his father's death in May 1760, he succeeded to the title of 2nd Baronet. He acquired and lived in Stanwell Place, Middlesex, which then passed down in the Gibbons family to 1933.
In 1761 he was invested as a Knight Companion (KB) of the Order of the Bath . That marriage produced his grandson, Gerard George Fitzgerald.
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Sir John Gibbons, 2nd Baronet died on 9 July 1776.
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