Thornely Carbutt Gibson (1883-1969)
Stockbroker & Amateur Opera Singer, of 2 Kensington Gate, London
He was educated as a scholar at Charterhouse and graduated from New College, Oxford, before becoming a junior partner with his brother-in-law, Dicky Wetzlar-Coit, at Schwab & Snelling, Stockbrokers, of 5 Throgmorton Avenue, London. He was also an amateur opera singer. In 1911, a review in the Oxford Magazine from the Eights Week concert read, "... the work in which they did themselves greatest credit was Cornelius's magnificent aria, Die Vätergruft, for baritone voice and chorus unaccompanied, a really difficult piece of music. The solo part was taken by Mr. Thornely Gibson, late of New College, whose fine voice and really artistic singing made us hope for great things in Der Freischütz. He also sang a delightful group of old English tunes and some modern songs." During World War I, he served as a Lieutenant and Acting Captain in the Irish Guards until he was invalided out. After the war, while based in Switzerland, he provided "influential (political) reports obtained on concert tours inside Germany" for SIS (MI6). One such example was his report on "Bolshevism in Germany" completed during February, 1919, while he toured Munich, Berlin, Cassel, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Baden-Baden and Offenburg. In 1913, he married Dolly, daughter of the Humanist Adela Wetzlar-Coit, and stepdaughter of Stanton Coit. They had two children.
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Image from Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-Armour (1910) by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies; Six: The Real James Bonds 1909-1939, by Michael Smith (2011); The Oxford Magazine, Volume 29, 1911. Page 392.