James Gibbs (died 1724) was an English physician and poet.
In a letter to Archbishop Tenison, preserved among the manuscripts in Lambeth Library, he solicits Tenison's ‘favour and assistance’ in promoting ‘a new metrical version of the Psalms.’ The letter is undated, but in 1701 the first fifteen of the psalms were published in London, and a second edition followed in 1712.
A copy of the latter was discovered in Swift's library, containing some severe marginal criticism by the dean.
Gibbs died at Tregony, Cornwall, in 1724.
He published: In manuscript are: This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wentworth-Sheilds, Wentworth Francis (1890).