Patrick Gibson, Baron Gibson

Richard Patrick Tallentyre Gibson, Baron Gibson (5 February 1916 – 20 April 2004) was a British businessman in the publishing industry, and later arts administrator.

Life

Gibson was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. He became a stockbroker in 1937, and he joined the Middlesex Yeomanry on the outbreak of the Second World War.^[1] He served in North Africa, but was captured at Derna in Libya in April 1941. He was held as a prisoner-of-war at Camp 41 near Parma in northern Italy, where he shared a room with Edward Tomkins and Nigel Strutt, all three becoming firm friends. Strutt was repatriated on medical grounds, and Gibson and Tomkins were moved to another camp. He and Tomkins escaped from the new camp, and spent 81 days walking 500 miles (800 km) south to Bari, crossing the Apennines and German lines, to return to Allied-held territory. Gibson then served with Special Operations Executive and the Foreign Office.

He married Dione Pearson in 1945, a member of the Pearson PLC dynasty and granddaughter of Weetman Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray and of 1st Baron Brabourne. Gibson joined the family's Westminster Press group of regional newspapers in 1947 as a trainee journalist, rapidly rising up through the business, consolidating and expanding its media interests. He became a director of the Financial Times, The Economist, and of Pearson, and chairman of Pearson Longman in 1967, and of the Financial Times in 1975. He was chairman of the Pearson group from 1978 to 1983.

He was a member of the Arts Council of Great Britain from 1963, and chair from 1972 to 1977. During his period as chair, the council was under pressure due to government-wide spending cuts and reduced corporate patronage due to an economic down turn. Gibson argued against the imposition of admission fees for public museums and galleries (a measure that in the end was only briefly and partially in place) and defended the council's more controversial funding decisions against charges of elitism. From 1977 to 1986, he was Chairman of the National Trust, a position in which he had personal interest as the owner of Penns in the Rocks, a 600-acre (2.4 km²) estate in Sussex previously owned by William Penn that he bought from the estate of Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington in 1957. In this period, the National Trust acquired Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire, Belton House in Lincolnshire, Calke Abbey in Derbyshire, and The Argory in County Armagh.

He was made a life peer in 1975, becoming Baron Gibson, of Penn's Rocks in the County of East Sussex.^[2] In addition to his Sussex estate, he owned an 18th-century villa at Asolo, near Venice.

He also served as chairman of the advisory council of the Victoria and Albert Museum, a director of the Royal Opera House, a trustee of Glyndebourne, a member of the National Art Collections Fund committee, treasurer of the Historic Churches Preservation Trust, and advised the Gulbenkian Foundation.

He was survived by his wife and their four sons. Lady Gibson died in 2012.

Arms

Coat of arms of Patrick Gibson, Baron Gibson
	Crest A stork rising Argent between two acorns slipped and leaved and holding in the beak an acorn slipped all Proper. Escutcheon Per pale Azure and Argent three acorns slipped and leaved in fess between as many storks rising all counterchanged. Supporters Two nightingales each holding in the beak a scroll of music Proper. Motto Per Ardua Ad Alta^[3]

References

^ "Gibson, Baron, (Richard Patrick Tallentyre Gibson) (5 Feb. 1916–20 April 2004)". Who's Who and Who Was Who 2021. Oxford University Press. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U17041. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
^ "No. 46484". The London Gazette. 4 February 1975. p. 1565.
^ Debrett's Peerage. 2003. p. 639.

External links

Obituary, The Daily Telegraph, 20 April 2004^{[dead link‍]}

Preceded by Arnold Goodman	Chair of the Arts Council of Great Britain 1972–1977	Succeeded by Kenneth Robinson

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