[2] She was arrested and imprisoned on several occasions for her militant activity,[3] and confronted both Churchill[4] and Asquith[5] to make the suffrage case.

[6] and acting as President of the Glasgow Ladies Chess Club from 1921[7] Her father was Peter Walker Gibb, a fish merchant, and her mother was Margaret Skirving.

[10] Gibb was an active member of the Women's Social and Political Union (1910)[1] and of the Actresses' Franchise League in Glasgow, where she was the honorary secretary.

[4] In November 1912, she was assaulted by a man named Edwin Heath Smith while she was attempting to protest to Prime Minister H. H. Asquith in Ladybank, Cupar.,[16] and brought a successful legal case against him[9] In 1913, she bought Sylvia Pankhurst's Cat and Mouse Act licence (sold in aid of Women's Social and Political Union funds for £100.

[6] In 1921, she drew against chess player, Blackburne when he visited the Glasgow Ladies' club on 26 October for a 14-boards simultaneous display.