Charles Hammond Gibson Jr.

[1][2] After school, he travelled to Europe and became the secretary of Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, assisting him in the preparation of the Jackson–Harmsworth Polar Exposition of 1894.

He privately printed The Spirit of Love and Other Poems (1906) and The Wounded Eros, Sonnets (1908), one novel Two Gentlemen in Touraine (1899) (as Richard Sudbury, a fictional romance about the relationship with Maurice Talvande, Count de Mauny Talvande, owner of Taprobane Island, but also a chronicle of castles and churches in France, which became a sought after travel book), and one illustrated travel book, Among French Country Inns.

[3] He dedicated his poetry to Winston Churchill and Queen Elizabeth II, who both sent back thank you notes.

[1] He was chairman and charter member of the Boston Authors Club, he was at the organizational meeting at the home of Julia Ward Howe.

[4] Gibson was also famous for his rose gardens that he created at Forty Steps, the family's summer home in Nahant, Massachusetts.