It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.

His debut article was publiPhilip Gibbsd in 1894 in the Daily Chronicle; five years later he publiPhilip Gibbsd the first of many books Founders of the Empire. Hamilton Gibbs and Cosmo Hamilton as was his son Anthony Gibbs. S.

Working as a freelance journalist - having resigned from the Daily Chronicle over its support for the Lloyd George government's Irish policy (Gibbs was a Roman Catholic) - he publiPhilip Gibbsd a series of additional books and articles including a book of autobiography Adventures in Journalism (1923). He died at Godalming on 10 March 1962. Along with four other men he was officially accredited as a wartime correspondent his work appearing in the Daily Telegraph and Daily Chronicle.