Sir James Puckering Gibson, 1st Baronet (14 August 1849 – 11 January 1912), was a Scottish Liberal Party politician. He was Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1906-9 and Liberal MP for Edinburgh East from 1909 to 1912.
Early life He was a son of Thomas Gibson, JP, and was educated at the Edinburgh Institution and Edinburgh University.
Professional career Gibson was a Member of the Edinburgh Merchant Company and the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce.
Political career Lord Provost, Edinburgh, 1906–09. He was the successful Liberal candidate for the Edinburgh East Division at the 1909 Edinburgh East by-election.British parliamentary election results 1885-1918, Craig, F.W.S.
Election results
Private life Gibson married, in 1874, Marian Potter of Barton Park, Derby.Gibson grave, Dean Cemetery They had no children. He was created a Baronet on 23 November 1909.'GIBSON, Sir James Puckering', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 retrieved 27 Jan 2014 From 1880 until his death he lived at 33 Regent Terrace.Mitchell, Anne (1993), "The People of Calton Hill", Mercat Press, James Thin, Edinburgh, .
Death and burial Gibson died in 1912 at his home on Regent Terrace. As he and Lady Gibson had no children, his title became extinct. He is buried on the north side of the main east-west path in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh under a large pale grey granite obelisk.
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