Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne
- Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne
Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne (4 September 1837 – 22 May 1913) was an Irish lawyer and Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
He was born at his father's Dublin home, 22 Merrion Square, the son of William Gibson J.P., of Rockforest, Co. Tipperary and Gaulstown, Co. Meath, by his first wife, Louisa, daughter of Joseph Grant, Barrister of Dublin. Gibson was educated at Trinity College, graduating BA in 1858. He was also an Auditor and a Gold Medallist of the College Historical Society, and became its president in 1883.
Having been called to the Irish bar in 1860, Gibson was made an Irish Queen's Counsel in 1872 and three years later was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Dublin University. He was appointed Attorney-General for Ireland in 1877, being admitted to the Privy Council of Ireland, and was finally appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1885, becoming a British Privy Counsellor that same year.
On his appointment as Lord Chancellor, Gibson was created Baron Ashbourne, of Ashbourne in the County of Meath in 1885. He resigned office in February 1886 on the return of the Liberals to power, but was re-appointed by Lord Salisbury in August of that year. For the next twenty years (with a short interval of three years when Gladstone returned to power in 1892), Lord Ashbourne held office as Lord Chancellor of Ireland, finally retiring at the age of 68.
In1900, Winston Churchill's agent Gerald Christie secured Ashbourne's services to take the chair and introduce the journalist /politician's Dublin lecture on his South African Adventures. [Churchill; Roy Jenkins]
Baron Ashbourne had in 1868 married Frances Marie Adelaide Colles: the couple produced four sons, the eldest son and heir being William Gibson, and four daughters - one of whom, Violet Gibson made an attempt to assassinate Mussolini in 1926. He died in London in 1913 and was cremated at Golders Green crematorium, his ashes being placed in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin.
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