Patrick Gibson, Baron Gibson

Richard Patrick Tallentyre Gibson, Baron Gibson (5 February 1916 – 20 April 2004) was a British businessman in the publishing industry, and later arts administrator.

Life

Gibson was educated at

Foreign Office

.

He married Dione Pearson in 1945, a member of the

Pearson Longman

in 1967, and of the Financial Times in 1975. He was chairman of the Pearson group from 1978 to 1983.

He was a member of the

National Trust, a position in which he had personal interest as the owner of Penns in the Rocks, a 600-acre (2.4 km²) estate in Sussex previously owned by William Penn that he bought from the estate of Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington in 1957. In this period, the National Trust acquired Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire, Belton House in Lincolnshire, Calke Abbey in Derbyshire, and The Argory in County Armagh

.

He was made a life peer in 1975, becoming Baron Gibson, of Penn's Rocks in the County of East Sussex.^[2] In addition to his Sussex estate, he owned an 18th-century villa at Asolo, near Venice.

He also served as chairman of the advisory council of the

Gulbenkian Foundation

.

He was survived by his wife and their four sons. Lady Gibson died in 2012.

Arms

Coat of arms of Patrick Gibson, Baron Gibson
	Crest A stork rising Argent between two acorns slipped and leaved and holding in the beak an acorn slipped all Proper. Escutcheon Per pale Azure and Argent three acorns slipped and leaved in fess between as many storks rising all counterchanged. Supporters Two nightingales each holding in the beak a scroll of music Proper. Motto Per Ardua Ad Alta^[3]

References

doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U17041
. Retrieved 22 November 2021.

^ "No. 46484". The London Gazette. 4 February 1975. p. 1565.

^ Debrett's Peerage. 2003. p. 639.

External links

Obituary, The Daily Telegraph, 20 April 2004^{[dead link]}

Preceded by
Arnold Goodman
Chair of the Arts Council of Great Britain
1972–1977 Succeeded by
Kenneth Robinson

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[2] "No. 46484". The London Gazette. 4 February 1975. p. 1565.

[3] Debrett's Peerage. 2003. p. 639.

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