Colonial Treasurer 8.3.1889 - 27.7.1891
(Parkes Ministry No.26 8.3.1889 - 22.10.1891)
Born Londonderry, Ireland,14 November 1850, son of Rev. Gibson and Eliza McArthur.
Educated Dublin and London.
Arrived Sydney November 1869 to develop family importing business. Partner and Manager AHC Macafee, merchants, Sydney. Director of various companies. President Sydney Chamber of Commerce 1886. Active promoter of commercial associations.
Convinced federationist delegate to Federal Conventions 1890-1891, 1897-1898. Spoke of the financial arrangements for the future Commonwealth as an ‘unsoluble conundrum.’ Represented East Sydney 1887-1894, Burwood 1894-1898. Federal Member for Wentworth 1901-1903.
Married Ada Charlotte Graham, divorced 1891, second wife Helen O’Reilly Gibson in Glasgow in 1892.
Died Althorme, Bellevue Hill, 21 December 1926, buried in Anglican section Waverley Cemetery.
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Last updated: 04/02/2021
