Strickland Gibson

Strickland Gibson (27 January 1877 – 18 February 1958) was an English librarian and bibliographer, who also served as Keeper of the Archives at the University of Oxford from 1927 to 1945.

Education and professional life Gibson was born on 27 January 1877. He was educated at New College School in Oxford, and then obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree as a member of St Catherine's Society, Oxford (a non-collegiate body that later became St Catherine's College). He became a lecturer in bibliography in the university's Faculty of English in 1923, and was honorary secretary and general editor of the Oxford Bibliographical Society (of which he was a co-founder) from 1922 onwards. He retired from his various posts in 1945. He died at his home in Oxford on 18 February 1958.

Family In 1908, Gibson married Margaret Alice Clinkard (1884–1973). Their daughter, Margaret Ada Gibson, was born in 1910 and a son, Strickland Hillary Gibson, followed in 1914 and died in 1959.