Stella Gibbons full-time writing career. In March 1931 Gibbons had become engaged to Allan Webb, a budding actor and opera singer five years her junior. He was the son of a cricketing parson, and the grandson of Allan Becher Webb, a former Bishop of Bloemfontein who served as Dean of Salisbury Cathedral. On 1 April 1933 the couple were married at St Matthew's, Bayswater. Later that year she learned that "Cold Comfort Farm" had been awarded the "Prix Étranger", the foreign novel category of the prestigious French literary prize, the "Prix Femina". It had won against works by two more experienced writers,
Thomas Gibbons (hymn writer) Gibbons was satirised in "An Epistle to the Rev. Mr. Tho. G-bb-ns on his Juvenilia" (1750); and also by Robert Sanders in "Gaffer Greybeard" as "Dr. Hymnmaker". Samuel Johnson enjoyed his society. Gibbons's writings included: A favourite form of composition was elegies on the death of his friends and others. A list of between forty and fifty works by Gibbons was in the "Protestant Dissenters' Magazine", ii. 492, 493, and in Walter Wilson's "Dissenting Churches", iii. 181, 182. Thomas Gibbons (hymn writer) Dr. Thomas Gibbons (1720–1785) was a London nonconformist minister who wrote hymns, sermons, and poetry. He was the