John Gibson (editor and journalist)

Gibson was born in Lancaster, Lancashire, on 14 February 1841, the son of a hatter named John Gibson. His mother, Dorothy Gradwell, had worked in a cotton mill before her marriage and appears to have returned to the mills after the death of her husband, also named John Gibson. Around 1863, her son John Gibson joined the Oswestry Advertiser as a printer and began to write for the paper. For the next ten years he appears to have worked as a journalist in various places in Wales and the English border counties. ==Influence==

In September 1873, Gibson became the manager and editor of the Cambrian News at Aberystwyth, 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". The letter was published in the suffragist newspaper ''The Woman's Herald'' in April 1892. Gibson was also a supporter of the atheist and secularist Charles Bradlaugh. ==Negative view==

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. He made few friends and many enemies." ==Appreciation==

Gibson was knighted in 1915, and died on 16 July in the same year, aged 74. ==References==