Letter 2425

Gibson outlines the terms of the ‘Lease relating to the hall in the College, and the Candidates Room’. There has been a row over the use of the rooms. The matter is to be discussed at a meeting tomorrow. Thomas Gibson (1648/9-1722) was a physician. He studied at St. John’s College, Cambridge and Leiden University. Gibson published ‘The Anatomy of Humane Bodies Epitomized’ in 1682, which went through 6 editions. He was expelled from the Royal College of Physicians for his association with the Cromwells, but was eventually reinstated (Gordon Goodwin, Gibson, Thomas (1648/91722), rev. Patrick Wallis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10635, accessed 23 Aug 2011]).