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Reverend John Paul Stewart Riddell Gibson, Fourth Principal of Ridley Hall  (1927–1945)

Image credit: Ridley Hall Theological College, Cambridge

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John Paul Stewart Riddell Gibson was educated at Kingswood School, Bath and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He studied ordination at Ridley Hall in 1906. Reverend Gibson was a missionary in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from 1906 until returning to take up the Principalship of Ridley in 1927. He left Ridley in 1945 to return to the mission field in Uganda.

Ridley Hall Theological College, Cambridge

Cambridge

Title

Reverend John Paul Stewart Riddell Gibson, Fourth Principal of Ridley Hall (1927–1945)

Date

1945

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 75 x W 61 cm

Accession number

8

Acquisition method

gift from students on the departure of the sitter from Ridley Hall, 1945

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Alexander Christie 1945

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Ridley Hall Theological College, Cambridge

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