Thomas Milner Gibson

Thomas Milner Gibson (1806-1884) was an English politician, born at Trinidad. He was graduated at Cambridge. He entered Parliament in the Conservative interest, but becoming a convert to Free-Trade principles, he went over to the Liberal ranks, and became an active and eloquent supporter of the Manchester policy. He returned for Manchester in 1841 and 1846, was made a Privy Councillor and Vice-President of the Board of Trade. His earnest advocacy of peace at the Crimean crisis lost him his seat in Manchester, but Ashton-under-Lyne returned him the same year. Under Palmerston, he was for seven years (1859-66) President of the Board of Trade. His name is honourably associated with the repeal of the Advertisement, Newspaper Stamp, and Paper Duties. In 1868, he retired from public life.

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