| Name |
Vicary Gibbs |
| Title |
Right Hon. |
| Suffix |
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas |
| Birth |
27 Oct 1751 |
Cathedral Close, Exeter, Devon  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Baptism |
12 Nov 1751 |
Mint Chapel, Exeter |
| Memorial |
Hayes, Kent |
| Memorial Inscription in church and church yard |
| Residence |
Middle Temple, Middlesex |
| Residence |
1788 |
St Giles in the Fields and St George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England |
| Residence |
1789 |
St Giles in the Fields and St George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England |
| Title |
Feb 1805 |
| Solicitor-General |
| Title |
1807 |
| Attorney-General |
| Title |
Nov 1813 |
| Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer |
| Title |
Feb 1814 |
| Chief Justice of the Common Pleas |
| Residence |
1818 |
St Giles in the Fields and St George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England |
| Will |
6 Oct 1818 |
| Will dated 6 Oct 1818 and proved Mar 1820 in C.P.C. |
| Burial |
Feb 1820 |
St Mary the Virgin, Hayes, Kent |
| Death |
8 Feb 1820 |
67 Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London |
| Notes |
- Educated at Exeter Grammar School and (17 March 1764-70) at Eton College (King's scholar there); elected scholar King's College, Cambridge 1770; Craven scholar of the University 1772; Fellow of King's College 1774-84; B.A. 1775; M.A. 1778.
Entered as a student of Lincoln's Inn 24 August 1769. Called to the Bar 26 January 1780. A Lieut. in the Corps "Devil's Own" 1780. A "Special Pleader" for many years. Joined Western Circuit 1783. Recorder of Bristol February 1794. Assistant to Erskine (for the defendants) in the Treason trials in the autumn of 1794, when in honour of their success medals were struck bearing their portraits. King's Counsel 1794 or 5. Solicitor General to the Prince of Wales 1795-9; Attorney General to the Prince 1799-1804. Chief Justice of the court of Session of the County Palatine of Chester July 1804. Member of Parliament for Totnes, Devon, 1804-6. Solicitor General to the Government 12 February 1805-January 1806; knighted 20 February 1805; resigned office on Pitt's death January 1806; Member of Parliament for Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, 18 - 22 April 1806; for Cambridge University May 1807 to May 1812. Attorney General April 1807 - May 1812. Resigned Parliament after the murder of his friend the Premier, and was made a Serjeant-at-law and a Puisne Judge of the Court of Common Pleas May 1812. Chief Baron of the Exchequer 8 November 1813. A Privy Councillor from 30 November 1813. Chief Justice of Common Pleas 24 February 1814 - resigned 5 November 1818. Resigned from offices of Recorder, Common Councillor, and Senior Alderman of Bristol, 1 December 1817. His 'Speech in the case of Dr. R. B. Remmett v. Archer' and 'Speeches in defence of Thomas Hardy and Horne Tooke' (1795) are printed. His successive residences after his marriage were: in Red Lion Square (Holborn); in Bloomsbury Square to 1796; 6 Bloomsbury Place from 1796; 42 Bedford Square from at least 1800; 35 Russell Square from at least 1811; 67 Russell Square from 1814. Also from at least 1802 Hayes Grove on Hayes Common, Kent.
For biographies of him see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J. A. Gibbs (and the Additions to it of 1927), the Dictionary of National Biography, books mentioned in the latter, and books mentioned in Gibbs Pedigree (1904 edition) pp. xix and xx of the Introduction.
- History of Parliament website on Vicary Gibbs:
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/gibbs-vicary-1751-1820
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicary_Gibbs
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| Person ID |
I1698 |
Gibbs Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
11 Mar 2024 |
Gibbs Family Tree
1751 - 1820 (68 years)
