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Thomas Milner Gibson

by Charles Allen Duval
watercolour, corners diagonally cut, 1843
10 in. x 8 in. (254 mm x 203 mm)
Bequeathed by George Gery Milner-Gibson-Cullum, 1922
Primary Collection
NPG 1930

Sitterback to top

  • Thomas Milner Gibson (1806-1884), Politician; President of the Board of Trade. Sitter in 13 portraits.

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  • Charles Allen Duval (1808-1872), Portrait and subject painter. Artist or producer associated with 24 portraits.

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  • NPG D34465: Thomas Milner Gibson (source portrait)

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Sir Henry Cole commissions 1,000 copies of the first Christmas card, designed by John Callcott Horsley. Cole would later be instrumental in staging the Great Exhibition, and in developing science and art education in Britain.
Nelson's statue, by E.H. Bailey, is placed on top of its column in Trafalgar Square.

Art and science

The Theatre Regulations Act is passed, abolishing the privileged position of the 'major' theatres which held letters patent from the crown, allowing all theatres to perform 'legitimate' theatre.
First volume of Ruskin's Modern Painters published, praising Turner and demanding that artists should demonstrate 'truth to nature' in their work. Ruskin is a great inspiration to the Pre-Raphaelites.

International

The first experimental telegraph wire is constructed between Baltimore and Washington, using Morse code to send a message. The code, in which pulses of current deflect an electromagnet, moving a marker and producing written codes on a strip of paper, had been invented by Samuel Morse in 1838. The line officially opens in 1844.

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Martin

04 August 2022, 15:22

Thomas Milner Gibson (1806-1884) was a Liberal M.P and President of the Board of Trade and a Privy Councillor in Lord Palmerston's government. Born in Port of Spain Trinidad, he lived at Theberton Hall in Suffolk and inherited a fortune from the family Trinidad plantation.

He developed both Milner Square and Gibson Square Islington in the early 19th century. He died on his own yacht near Algiers.