Philip Gibbs (minister)


Philip Gibbs was an English nonconformist minister and stenographer, known now as the first historian of shorthand writing.

Life

He was appointed in 1715 the assistant to the Rev. Robert Bragge, at the independent chapel in Paved Alley, Lime Street, London. He was chosen one of the first of William Coward's Friday evening lecturers at the meeting-house in Little St. Helen's, Bishopsgate. In 1729 he moved from Lime Street to Hackney, where he was joint pastor with John Barker. He had avowed himself a Calvinist, but he eventually adopted Unitarian opinions, and was in consequence dismissed from his ministry in 1737.

Works

His works are: