Robert Gibb (other)
Robert Gibb may refer to: *Robert Gibb (courtier) (1490-1558), Scottish courtier *Robert Gibb (poet) (born 1946), American poet * Robert Gibb (painter) (1845–1932), Scottish painter * Bobby Gibb (1902–1953), Australian rules footballer with South Melbourne See also *Gibb (surname) *Robert Gibbs (other) Robert Gibbs (born 1971) is an American communications professional who was White House Press Secretary from 2009 to 2011 Robert Gibbs or Gibbes could also refer to: *Robert Gibbes (1644–1715), Carolinian English colonial governor *Bobby Gibbe ...

Robert Gibb (courtier)
Robert Gibb or Gib (1490-1558) was a Scottish landowner and courtier. His home and lands were at Carribber Castle near Linlithgow in West Lothian. The estate was on the banks of the River Avon next to Woodcockdale. Robert Gibb inherited these lands from his father, also Robert Gibb who assigned him a reversion of the lands before witnesses at Linlithgow Palace in June 1541. He was appointed a Stirrup-man to James V of Scotland on 6 September 1524, and became Esquire of the Stable in 1538. A Latin record of 1538 and 1540 calls him "scutifero, alias lie 'squyer' stabuli domini regis". In May 1528 James V joined his mother Margaret Tudor at Stirling Castle, escaping from the Douglas family. Traditionally, as described by Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, the king rode to Stirling early in the morning from Falkland Palace before the household was awake. Pitscottie's chronicle names the king's helpers in the stable as Jockie Hairt and Zacharie Harcar. The details are uncertain, an Englis ...
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Robert Gibb (poet)
Robert Gibb (born September 5, 1946) is an American poet. Gibb won the 1997 National Poetry Series Open Competition for ''The Origins of Evening''. It, along with his next two books, comprise what Gibb calls ''The Homestead Trilogy'', a nearly 100-poem cycle probing the fading industrial history and culture of America's ''Steel City''. Life He was born to a family of steelworkers in Homestead, Pennsylvania, a mill town six miles south of downtown Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River. The town was home to Andrew Carnegie's famous Homestead Steel Works and site of the infamous Homestead Strike. Gibb earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Kutztown University in 1971, a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1974, and his Master of Arts and Ph.D. at Lehigh University in 1976 and 1986 respectively. Works * * * * * * ''The Origins of Evening'', poetry (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998) * * ''Momentary Days'', poetry (Camden: Walt Whitman Center, 1989) * * ' ...
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Robert Gibb (painter)
Robert Gibb RSA (28 October 1845 – 11 February 1932) was a Scottish painter who was Keeper of the National Gallery of Scotland from 1895 to 1907 and was Painter and Limner to the King from 1908 until his death. He built his reputation on romantic, historical and particularly military paintings but was also a significant portrait artist. Life Gibb was born at 28 Greenside Street in Edinburgh, the son of Alexander Gibb, a builder. His older brother was the artist William Gibb. The family moved to 5 Regent Terrace on Calton Hill in 1855. The family moved again to Mayfield Terrace in the south of the city when Robert was a teenager. He studied art at evening classes at the Board of Manufacturers in Edinburgh and at the life school of the Royal Scottish Academy, and began exhibiting at the RSA in 1867 showing an Arran landscape; this would be the first of no fewer than 143 paintings exhibited at the academy. By the end of the next decade he had begun to establish his repu ...
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