John Gibson (c1831-1881)
John Gibson (c1831-1881), Engineer, Ryhope Colliery, near Sunderland.
1881 Death. 'Early yesterday morning, Mr John Gibson, engineer at Ryhope Colliery, died his residence in Ryhope. Deceased was installed as engineer at the colliery during the first sinking operations about 20 years ago, and carried through the whole of the sinking connection with Mr John Taylor. Mr Gibson, who was 50 years of age at the time of his death, suffered some time since from a stroke of paralysis, which gradually weakened his system, and caused him to pass peacefully away. He was the inventor of a life-saving apparatus, which was on several occasions tried with satisfactory results at Roker, but hitherto it has not been utilised in the way which its merits as a preventive bathing accidents would warrant.'[1]
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- ↑ Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Tuesday 11 January 1881