| Country: | England |
| Fullname: | Alfred Leonard Gibson |
| Nickname: | Fred |
| Birth Date: | 13 February 1912 |
| Birth Place: | Devon, Middlesex County, Jamaica |
| Death Date: | 28 June 2013 (aged 101) |
| Death Place: | Manton, Rutland, England |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Club1: | Leicestershire |
| Year1: | 1946 |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 2 |
| Runs1: | 17 |
| Bat Avg1: | 5.66 |
| 100S/50S1: | –/– |
| Top Score1: | 11 |
| Hidedeliveries: | true |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | –/– |
| Date: | 21 January |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/13600.html Cricinfo |
Alfred Leonard Gibson (13 February 1912 – 28 June 2013) was a Jamaican-born English cricketer. Gibson was a right-handed batsman. On 13 February 2012, he became the 15th former first-class player to reach 100 years of age, and the 5th county cricketer to do so.[1]
Born at Devon, Jamaica, where he was taught cricket by the manager of a banana plantation and once played in a match featuring George Headley.[2] Gibson moved to England in 1944, accompanied by a friend,[2] where he joined the Royal Air Force and saw service in the later stages of World War II while stationed near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire.[1] [2] Following the war, Leicestershire County Cricket Club secretary Cecil Wood was given the task of building a team for the resumption of first-class cricket, with Gibson impressing Wood in friendly one-day matches against Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire in 1945. He was offered the chance to play for Leicestershire in 1946,[1] making two first-class appearances against Yorkshire in the County Championship at Headingley and Oxford University at the University Parks.[3] He scored a total of 17 runs in his two matches, at an average of 5.66, with a high score of 11.[4] He suffered arm and head injuries in a car accident midway through the 1946 season and was not reengaged by the county.[1]
He later married an English woman and worked as a technician for Rolls-Royce. Gibson is also noted as being one of the first black persons to be elected as a councillor in England when he was elected to represent Mountsorrel on the local council.[5] Gibson died at a nursing home at Manton, Rutland on 28 June 2013. At the time of his death he was the second-oldest surviving county cricketer, behind Cyril Perkins.[6]