George Smith Gibbes

From the King Edward VI School, Southampton under Richard Mant, he went to Exeter College, Oxford, and graduated B.A.

Later he became physician extraordinary to Queen Charlotte, and in 1820 was knighted by George IV.

[1] The main works published by Gibbes were the 1800 he published his Treatise on the Bath Waters (1800) with a second treatise (1803), and Pathological Inquiries, or an Attempt to Explain the Phenomena of Disease, Bath, 1818, a semi-popular if philosophical exposition of the principles of medicine.

He wrote also:[1] Gibbes was a fellow also of the Linnean Society, having communicated an account of the contents of a bone-cave on the north-west side of the Mendip Hills, one of the earliest explored bone-caves in England.

To William Nicholson's Journal of Natural Philosophy he contributed a papers on the Bath waters and other chemical subject, and to Alexander Tilloch's Philosophical Magazine a "Description of the Diacatoptron".