Edward Stanley Gibbons
Edward Stanley Gibbons was a British merchant of postage stamps, founder of the company Stanley Gibbons Ltd.
Born with Plymouth, the June 21st 1840 (year of the emission of the Penny Black), he was more the young child of William Gibbons, pharmacist and of Elizabeth Langridge. With studies in Hallorans' Collegiate Establishment, he works at 15 years a few weeks as clerk in Naval Bank, before being apprentice in the shop of his father.
Whereas the collection of postage stamps becomes with the mode, it starts to make of it the trade in paternal pharmacy as from 1856. In 1863, it buys two bags of triangular stamps of the Cape for five pounds sterling with two sailors who had gained them in a tombola with the Cape; it is known as that Gibbons would have obtained 500 pounds with the resale from them.
In 1865, it publishes a price list of 16 pages, prémice of the future catalog Stanley Gibbons .
After the death of his father in 1867, it takes its changing with pharmacy until its sale in 1872. It moves in with Plymouth Hoe where it publishes stamp albums so that the collectors can arrange logically and completely their stamps. In 1874, he lives with London: initially in Clapham Common, then 8 Gower Street in 1876; it starts to publish a monthly magazine on the stamps.
In 1890, and after five marriages, it takes its retirement, and sells its trade for 25.000 books which becomes a private company with limited responsibility, the Stanley Gibbons Ltd, of which he was the first president.
It benefitted from its retirement to achieve a voyage to the the United States and in the Far East, and died the February 17th 1913 with Kensington.
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