Thomas Gibson

Thomas Gibson, (1647–1722) was an English physician and anatomist. Life Thomas Gibson was born at High Knipe, in the parish of Bampton, Westmoreland, in 1647. After attending Bampton school he was sent to Leyden University, where he graduated MD on 20 August 1675. He was admitted a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians on 26 June 1676, and an honorary fellow on 30 September 1680. He was a Presbyterian, and a visit which he and his second wife paid to his nephew John, provost of Queen's College, Oxford, is sourly described by Thomas Hearne. On 21 January 1718–19 he was appointed physician-general to the army.