John Gibson (editor and journalist)

Sir John Gibson (1841–1915) was a journalist in Wales, the United Kingdom, who spent most of his career at Aberystwyth as editor of the Cambrian News.

In 1880, a consortium assembled by Gibson purchased the Cambrian News, and for the next thirty years it became one of the most influential weekly papers in Wales.

Gibson remarked in its first chapter on how "the laws of this country still treat women as the inferiors of men – as mere slave stuff.

"[3] The feminist Lady Florence Dixie enclosed The Emancipation of Women in an open letter to Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone and other major political figures, passionately criticizing their male-supremacist assumptions and opposition to women's suffrage and commending Gibson as a "true man and real – not sham – Liberal".

[5] Thomas Jones, who was a student at University College Wales, Aberystwyth in the 1890s, described Gibson as "a stranger in an alien and narrow community, unhappy in his domestic life, lonely, and despite his large physical frame, highly sensitive.