3-034-768 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Right Hon. Sills John Gibbons, the new Lord Mayor of London, 1871. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Maull and Co. 'The Right Hon. Sills John Gibbons, whose inauguration as Lord Mayor of London took place last Thursday, has represented the Ward of Castle Baynard in the Court of Aldermen since 1862, having been first elected a member of the Common Council in 1858. He is rather above sixty years of age, having been born in 1809. He carries on the business of a hop- merchant in the borough of Southwark, and his private residence is in Upper Bedford-place, Russell-square. He has a wife and two children. He has been an active and useful member of the City Corporation, as chairman of the City Lands Committee, and in other special duties. In 1865, when Sir Benjamin Phillips was Lord Mayor, Mr. Alderman Gibbons and Mr. Alderman Figgins were the two Sheriffs. Mr. Alderman Gibbons is a justice of the peace for Middlesex and a Deputy-Lieutenant of that county. He has been more than once invited by the Conservative party to become a candidate for the Parliamentary representation of the city of London'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.