Thomas Gibbons

Reflist}}:Placeholder|right|300px]] Thomas Gibbons (May 31, 1720 - February 22, 1785) was an English poet and hymnist in London.

Life
Gibbons was born in Read (near Newmarket), and educated in Deptford by Dr. Taylor. He was ordained in 1742, and in 1743 became minister of the Independent Church at Haberdashers Hall, London, where he remained until retiring in 1785. In 1754 he began tutoring at the Dissenting Academy at Mile End, London; in 1759 he became an evening lecturer at Monkwell Street.

He received an M.A. from the College of New Jersey in 1760, and a Doctor of Divinity from the College of Aberdeen in 1764.

Poetry and hymns

 * Juvenilia; Po­ems on Various Sub­jects of Devotion and Virtue, 1750
 * Hymns Adapted to Divine Wor­ship in Two Books, 1769 & 1784
 * An Eng­lish Version of the Latin Epitaphs on the Nonconconformist’s Memorial, 1775

Prose and sermons

 * Calvinism and Nonconformity Defended, 1740
 * Sermons on Various Sub­jects, 1762; (in­cluded 15 hymns, one for each sermon)
 * Rhetoric, 1767
 * The Christ­ian Minister in Three Poetical Epistles to Philander, 1772
 * Female Worthies, 2 volumes, 1777
 * Select Portions of Scripture, and Remarkable Occurrences, 1781

Edited

 * Memoirs of the Rev. Isaac Watts, D.D., 1780

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy NetHymnal.