Philip Gibbs
Sir Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs KBE (1 May 1877 – 10 March 1962) was an English journalist and prolific author of books who served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War. Four of his siblings were also writers, A. Hamilton Gibbs, Francis Hamilton Gibbs, Helen Hamilton Gibbs, and Cosmo Hamilton, as was his father Henry James Gibbs, and his own son, Anthony.
For the English nonconformist minister and stenographer, see Philip Gibbs (minister). For the Canadian politician, see Philip Archibald Gibbs. For the mathematician, see Moving sofa problem.
Sir Philip Gibbs
Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs
1 May 1877
London, England, UK
Journalist, novelist, memoirist
British
1899–1957
A. Hamilton Gibbs (brother)
Cosmo Hamilton (brother)
Early life[edit]
The son of a civil servant, Gibbs was born in Kensington, London, his name then being registered as Philip Amande Thomas.[1] He received a home education and determined at an early age to develop a career as a writer. Gibbs was a Roman Catholic.[2]
Several of his books were adapted as movies.[9]
