John Lloyd Gibbons (25 August 1837 – 25 April 1919) was an engineering surveyor,

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, county councillor for Bilston and a

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Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South from 1898 to 1900.

Background

Gibbons was born on 25 August 1837 to Wolverhampton-born manufacturing chemist Henry Gibbons and his wife Elizabeth (''née'' Saunders) from Wednesfield,

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. He married Emma Eliza White of

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, Gloucestershire in 1885 in Wolverhampton.; she died in 1896. He remarried in 1898 to Eliza Grey Ballenden of Sedgley, Staffordshire.

Politics and public life

Gibbons was county magistrate for the Sedgley Petty Sessions Division. He was elected as County Councillor for North Bilston in 1891, the same year that the family took up residence at

Ellowes Hall Ellowes Hall was a stately home located in Sedgley, Staffordshire (now West Midlands). It was built in 1821 in parkland near Lower Gornal village as the home of wealthy local ironmonger John Fereday and his family. Over the next 100 years or more ...

, a stately home located in Sedgley,

. He was elected as member of parliament for Wolverhampton South at the 3 February 1898 by-election following the death of Charles Pelham Villiers on 16 January 1898.

Personal life

Gibbons died on 25 April 1919 and was buried at All Saints Church, Sedgley. His widow sold Ellowes Hall later the same year.

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* 1838 births 1919 deaths Liberal Unionist Party MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1895–1900 People from Wolverhampton {{England-UK-MP-stub