[3] He was educated at Westminster School, London, then studied natural sciences and physiology at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating with a BSc in 1924.
[1] Although Gibson had originally planned to go into medicine like his father, he became interested in art history through an Oxford friend, the archaeologist Humfry Payne, who later directed the British School at Athens.
[4] During the Second World War he spent long periods on firewatch duty, day and night, at the National Gallery, although the art collection itself had been moved away from London for safekeeping.
[4] In the late 1940s they moved to Wyddial Hall,[5] a 16th century country house in East Hertfordshire, which became a Grade II* listed building in October 1951.
Gibson died unexpectedly at the age of 58, on 22 April 1960, at University College Hospital, London.