[1] He was admitted a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians on 26 June 1676, and an honorary fellow on 30 September 1680.
He was a Presbyterian, and a visit which he and his second wife paid to his nephew John, provost of Queen's College, Oxford, is sourly described by Thomas Hearne.
[1] He died on 16 July 1722, aged 75, and was buried in the ground adjoining the Foundling Hospital belonging to St. George the Martyr, Queen Square.
[1] He married, first, Elizabeth (1646–92), widow of Zephaniah Cresset of Stanstead St. Margaret's, Hertfordshire, and third daughter of George Smith of that place;[3] and secondly, Anne (1659–1727), sixth daughter of Richard Cromwell, the Lord Protector,[4] but left no issue.
[1] Gibson published The Anatomy of Humane Bodies epitomized, 8vo, London, 1682 (6th edition, 1703), compiled for the most part from Alexander Read's work, but long popular.