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Unitarian issues and both he and Gibson Snr presided at the annual meeting at different times. Gibson Snr was also part of the group that successfully lobbied
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for the first 25 years of its existence; its purpose was to support
Nonconformist scholarship. He was also on Wilkin Field's committee that built University Hall as a memorial to the passing of the
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that built affordable and sanitary accommodation for rent. The second complex constructed by the
Association was at Spitalfields and was open for viewing as part of the Great Exhibition.
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and philanthropist. He supported several novel initiatives to enhance
British manufacturing quality and international trade while improving life for working people during the
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held in London in the 1870s. Gibson was in addition a long-serving
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and separated from his wife. Gibson was on the South Place chapel committee as well.
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Gibson, T. F. (1858). "Notice of the Discovery of a Large Femur of the Iguanodon".
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where his business was centred. He also made important contributions to geology.
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in 1834 that accepted the resignation of their minister
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in Paris, both of which had the goal of reducing import
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304:of 1851. In subsequent years he was a Juror at the
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873:British History Online
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667:Gibson, Eliza (1885).
634:Baines, F. E. (1890).
582:Ronalds, B.F. (2016).
453:in 1828 to repeal the
414:Natural History Museum
283:Mechanics' Institution
187:; 10 Broadwater Down,
555:"Thomas Field Gibson"
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294:Royal College of Arts
189:Royal Tunbridge Wells
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455:Sacramental Test Act
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