John Gibbon (1629–1718) was an English officer of arms, Bluemantle Pursuivant and known as a writer on heraldry and the politics of the Exclusion Crisis.
On 11 December 1639 he was admitted a pupil of Merchant Taylors' School, then went to Jesus College, Cambridge, matriculating in 1645, but not taking a degree.
[3] Shortly after the Restoration of 1660 Gibbon returned to England, and on 9 February 1665 moved into a house belonging to the senior brother in St. Katharine's Hospital, near the Tower of London, where he resided till 11 May 1701.
He received a patent for the office of Bluemantle pursuivant at arms on 10 February 1668, through the influence of Sir William Dugdale, but was not actually created such until 25 May 1671.
He was an assiduous astrologer; but was on good terms with Dugdale, Elias Ashmole, John Betts, and Nehemiah Grew.
[1] On James, Duke of York's return from Flanders in 1679, Gibbon published an essay Dux bonis omnibus appellens, or The Swans Welcome.