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Henry Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham MA BA FGS FSA (31 August 1819 – 13 September 1907) was a British banker, businessman and Conservative Party politician. ==Life== Aldenham the son of George Henry Gibbs,〔 〕 whose father Antony Gibbs was a brother of Sir Vicary Gibbs, a Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.〔 〕 He was a Senior Partner in the family firm of Antony Gibbs & Sons, and was a Director of the Bank of England from 1853 to 1901, its Deputy Governor,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Deputy Governors of the Bank of England )〕 and finally its Governor from 1875 to 1877. He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the City of London at an unopposed〔 by-election in April 1891, and held the seat until the general election in July 1892, when his oldest son Alban was elected in his place. He also held the office of High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1884. In 1896 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Aldenham, of Aldenham in the County of Hertford. A member of the Philological Society, he was a major benefactor to the Oxford English Dictionary. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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