Edgar Gibson

Gibson was born at Fawley, near Southampton, to William Gibson (1804–1862), Rector of Fawley, and Louisanna Sumner (1817–1899), who had a total of 11 children:

Ella Sophia Gibson (1838–1928) Emily Louisa Gibson (1840–1887) Ada Frances Gibson (1841–1845) Edith Harriet Gibson (1842–1922) Arthur Sumner Gibson (1844–1927), a rugby union international, who played in the first international match in 1871 Herbert William Sumner Gibson (1846–1923), naval officer Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson (1848–1924) Walter Sumner Gibson (1849–1918), academic reader at Oxford University Press, and uncle (by marriage) of the actor Laurence Olivier Rosa Fanny Gibson (1850–1904) Florence Jennie Gibson (1853–1911) Alan George Sumner Gibson (1856–1922), coadjutor bishop of Cape Town Gibson's father had previously been married to Eliza Maria Sumner (1808–1836), by whom he had two children:

Marianne ('May') Gibson (1832–1845) John Sumner Gibson (1833–1892), priest and cricketer Gibson's father's wives were first cousins: Eliza Maria Sumner was the daughter of John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury (1848–1862), and Louisanna Sumner's father was Charles Richard Sumner (1790–1874), who served as Bishop of Llandaff (1826–1827) and Bishop of Winchester (1827–1868).