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About Patrick Gibson, Baron Gibson
Richard Patrick Tallentyre Gibson, Baron Gibson was a British publishing executive, arts administrator and life peer. After wartime service in North Africa, imprisonment in Italy, escape after the Italian Armistice and later work with the Special Operations Executive, he became a senior figure in the Pearson group. He chaired the Arts Council of Great Britain from 1972 to 1977 and the National Trust from 1977 to 1986. In business he was group chairman of Pearson plc from 1978 to 1983 and chairman of Financial Times Ltd from 1975 to 1977. He sat in the House of Lords as a Crossbench peer from 1975 until his death.
Everything about Patrick Gibson, Baron Gibson →- Occupation
- stockbroker, publisher, politician
- Position held
- member of the House of Lords
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- February 5, 1916
- Died
- April 20, 2004