John Gibbons

• Birth date:  1850 at Manchester
• Death date:  19 March 1935 

John Gibbons was for 22 years a member of staff of Manchester city surveyor’s department rising to the post of principal architectural assistant. He resigned in September 1898 at which time he commenced practice on his own account but continued to receive commissions from the Tramways Committee even after the appointment of Henry Price as city architect in 1901. In 1907 or 1908 he took his son John Harold Gibbons into partnership under the style of John Gibbons and Son and as a result began to receive a number of ecclesiastical commissions.  In many ways this partnership was more of an association, with John Harold Gibbons working to establish his own practice in London from 1909.

John Gibbons died on 19 March 1935 at Rose Cottage 16 Barlow Moor Road Didsbury Manchester.

Address
1895    John Gibbons Principal architectural assistant city surveyor’s department Town Hall Manchester
1899    John Gibbons FMSA. architect. 55, Cross Street, Manchester (Slater)
1903    John Gibbons FMSA. Guardian Assurance Buildings 25 Cross Street Manchester (Slater)
1908-1922 John Gibbons  FRIBA FMSA (John Gibbons & Son) 4, St. Mary's Parsonage

Residence
1879    John Gibbons architect 21 Maple Street, Cheetham (Slater)
1881    Crescent Road Crumpsall (census)
1883    John Gibbons architect 79 Crescent Road Crumpsall (Slater)
1886    John Gibbons architect Lower Bank Villas Oak Road Higher Crumpsall
1895    18 Oak Road Crumpsall
1901    Crumpsall
1903    “Birch Lea,”, Norman Road, Rusholme
1909    John Gibbons FRIBA. Cherry Tree Cottage, Barlow Moor Road, Didsbury (Slater)
1926-1935 John Gibbons John, FRIBA FMSA. “Rose Cottage,” 16 Barlow Moor Road, Didsbury

Obituaries:  RIBA Journal, 27 April 1935