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John Sumner Gibson (25 November 1833 – 28 September 1892) was an English priest and first-class cricketer who played in one match for Cambridge University, the 1855 University match against Oxford. He was born at Chester and died at Iridge Place, a listed country house near Hurst Green, East Sussex.

Family and background

Gibson was the eldest son of William Gibson (a priest; 1804–1862) and his first wife, Eliza Maria, who was the daughter of John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury; the reformer and churchman William Wilberforce was also a relation. After Eliza Maria died in 1836, William Gibson married her cousin, Louisiana, who was the daughter of Charles Sumner, Bishop of Winchester from 1827 to 1868. Many of the 13 children produced by William Gibson's two marriages had "Sumner" as part of their collection of forenames, and some then hyphenated it with "Gibson" to produce a double-barrelled surname; John Sumner Gibson appears not to have done so and to have been known, in the family at least, as "Sumner Gibson" with "Sumner" as the preferred forename.

Cricket and after

Gibson was educated at Harrow School, where he played in the cricket team, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. His one recorded first-class cricket match was the University Match of 1855 when he batted low in the batting order, scoring 8 and 23, and did not bowl.

Gibson was ordained as a Church of England priest and held various parish incumbencies in Kent, Warwickshire and Derbyshire up to 1873, when he appears to have retired to East Sussex.

References

1. ^ "John Gibson". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
2. ^ "The Descendants of William Gibson". www.rev-william-gibson.com. Archived from the original on 9 February 2012. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
3. "Scorecard: Oxford University v Cambridge University". www.cricketarchive.com. 21 June 1855. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
4. J. Venn and J. A. Venn. "Alumni Cantabrigienses: John Gibson". p. 41. Retrieved 24 May 2014.

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This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (April 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this message) John Sumner Provost of King's College, Cambridge (d. 1772) Humphrey Sumner Provost of King's College, Cambridge (1743–1814) Robert Sumner (1748–1802) Hannah Bird (1757–1846) Marianne Robertson (1779–1829) John Bird Sumner Archbishop of Canterbury (1780–1862) Charles Richard Sumner Bishop of Winchester (1790–1874) Jennie Barnabine Maunoir (1794–1849) Antonetta Maria Edwards (1825–1852) John Henry Sumner (1821–1910) Eliza Maria Sumner (c.1808–1836) William Gibson (1804–1862) Louisanna Sumner (1817–1899) Sophia Albertina Sumner (1823–1884) William Henry Ridley priest and author (1816–1882) George Henry Sumner Bishop suffragan of Guildford (1824–1909) Mary Heywood Mothers' Union founder (1828–1921) Emily Sumner (1832–1926) Robert Newman Milford (1829–1913) John Robert Sumner footballer (1850–1933) John Sumner Gibson cricketer (1833–1892) Arthur Sumner Gibson rugby union player (1844–1927) Edgar Sumner Gibson Bishop of Gloucester (1848–1924) Alan Sumner Gibson Coadjutor Bishop of Cape Town (1856–1922) Charles Coleridge Mackarness Archdeacon of the East Riding (1850–1918) Grace Emily Milford (1856–1944) Humphrey Sumner Milford publisher and editor (1877–1952)
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Family tree of the Sumner family

• 1833 births
• 1892 deaths
• English cricketers
• Cambridge University cricketers
• People educated at Harrow School
• Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
• 19th-century English Anglican priests
• People from Rother District