Born at Parson's Green, Fulham, Gibson was for some years on the staff of a Carlisle newspaper.
The same year he was appointed registrar of the Newcastle upon Tyne district court of bankruptcy.
c. 71) abolished this and other similar courts, Gibson retired on a pension, and concentrated on writing.
He died at the Grosvenor Hotel, Belgravia London, 3 January 1871, and was interred in the disused burial-ground of the Old Priory, Tynemouth, by special permission.
[1] Gibson wrote:[1] Gibson also wrote A Memoir of the Life of Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham, articles for Colburn's New Monthly Magazine, Dickens' Household Words and other periodicals, and was an early contributor to Notes and Queries.