| Type: | bishop |
| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Reverend |
| Edgar Gibson | |
| Bishop of Gloucester | |
| Province: | Canterbury |
| Diocese: | Gloucester |
| Birth Date: | 23 January 1848 |
| Birth Place: | Fawley, Hampshire, England |
| Death Place: | Fareham, England |
| Nationality: | English |
| Religion: | Anglican |
| Alma Mater: | Charterhouse Trinity College, Oxford |
Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson (23 January 1848 – 8 March 1924) was the 31st Bishop of Gloucester.[1] He was born into a clerical family. His father was a clergyman and his son Theodore Sumner Gibson was a long serving Bishop in two South African Dioceses. He was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Oxford.[2] Ordained in 1872, his first post was as Chaplain at Wells Theological College, rising to Vice Principal in 1875.[3] His next post was as principal of Leeds Clergy School and he later became Rural Dean of the area and Vicar of Leeds Parish Church.
He was appointed an Honorary Chaplain to Queen Victoria in early January 1901.
In 1905 he was elevated to the episcopate where he remained until his death 19 years later.
His obituary in The Times noted that, "[h]e was an administrator and organizer of remarkable grasp and distinction[4] ".
Gibson was born at Fawley, near Southampton, to William Gibson (1804–1862), Rector of Fawley,[5] and Louisanna Sumner (1817–1899), who had a total of 11 children:
Gibson's father had previously been married to Eliza Maria Sumner (1808–1836), by whom he had two children:
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).