Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Gibbon, Nicholas (fl.1600)
GIBBON or GIBBONS, NICHOLAS, the elder (fl. 1600), theological writer, matriculated as pensioner at Clare Hall, Cambridge, in June 1585. He proceeded B.A. in 1588–9, M.A. in 1592, and was incorporated at Oxford July 1592. He has been identified with the Nicholas Gibbon of Heckford, Dorsetshire, whose son of the same name, born at Poole in 1605, became rector of Corfe Castle [see Gibbon, Nicholas, the younger, (1605–1697)]. He published ‘Questions and Disputations concerning the Holy Scripture, wherein are contained … expositions of the most difficult places,’ London, 1601, 4to. This work of nearly six hundred pages deals with the first fourteen chapters of Genesis, and is described on the title-page as ‘the first part of the first Tome. By Nicholas Gibbens, Minister and Preacher of the Word of God.’
[Cooper's Athenæ Cantabr. ii. 430; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, iv. 787; Wood's Fasti, i. 259; Hutchins's Dorset, i. 297; Brit. Mus. Cat.]