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SIGNATURE OF BRITISH LIBERAL POLITICIAN THOMAS MILNER GIBSON ON THE LATTER HALF OF A LETTER.
1865réf. 36606Theberton Suffolk U.K.: circa 1865. 1865. Good. - The closing 8 lines of a letter penned in black ink on part of a sheet of cream note paper 3-5/8 inches high by 4-3/8 inches wide. Signed "Thos. Milner Gibson". Folded for mailing approximately 1 inch from the top edge. The left edge is slightly creased. Good. Gibson is writing to his correspondent about reports written by Walter Plowden the first British Consul to Abyssinia. "Perhaps his reports on Abyssinia may have been sent before he was made Consul in 1848 or 1849. If you could send me these to Theberton I should be very much obliged." Thomas Milner Gibson 1806-1884 was a British Conservative politician who adopted Liberal views and became an ardent supporter of the free-trade movement. He was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Manchester in 1841 and from 1846 to 1848 was Vice-President of the Board of Trade under Prime Minister Lord John Russell. From 1859 to 1866 he sat in the cabinet as President of the Board of Trade first under Lord Palmerston and then under John Russell. Gibson was a leader in the movement for the repeal of taxes on educational materials and his successful efforts on behalf of journalism and advertising were recognized by a public testimonial in 1862. He retired from political life in 1868. Gibson and his wife resided at Theberton House in the village of Theberton Suffolk. British diplomat Walter Plowden 1820-1860 was the British Consul at Massawa in Eritrea at that time part of Ethiopia on the Red Sea coast from 1848 to 1860. He played a role in Ethiopian politics cultivating the friendship first of Ras Aliregent of the Ethiopian emperor and later of the emperor Tewodros. In 1860 he was murdered by a warlord hostile to Tewodros. His writings on Abyssinia were published by his brother in London in 1868. Theberton, Suffolk, U.K.: circa [1865]. unknown
