Stella Gibbons experience of school, Gibbons found university exhilarating and made numerous friendships, particularly with Ida Graves, an aspiring poet who, although on a different course, attended some of the same lectures. The two shared a love of literature and a taste for subversive humour. Graves lived until 1999, and recalled in an interview late in life that many of the jokes they shared found their way into "Cold Comfort Farm", as did some of their common acquaintances. Soon after Gibbons began the course she contributed a poem, "The Marshes of My Soul", to the December 1921 issue of "University College Magazine".
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