Talk:William Gibson, 2nd Baron Ashbourne

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Be gentle with me[edit]

This is my first new wikipedia entry, so I'd appreciate any pointers. William Gibson was my partner's great-uncle, and we have a tapestry his wife made in our dining room, so he's a fellow I've come to be interested in over the years. I found the NYT link last night, idly Googling.

Any suggestions gladly received.

Nic Dafis (talk) 23:39, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Portraits[edit]

As well as the above mentioned tapestry, there are 3 photographic portraits of WG in the National Portait Gallery, a Cubist group portrait of Gibson, his wife and their dog by Roy De Maistre (in private hands) and a more realistic version of the same in the collection of Castlemaine Gallery in Victoria, Australia.

Nic Dafis (talk) 02:07, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting![edit]

What a surprising character! Does anybody know if this family had a home in Ashbourne/Cill Dhéaglan in Meath? If so, where was it? Were they related to Frederick Bourne who gave his name to the village formerly known as Killeglan/Cill Dhéaglan in the mid-19th century? Alternatively, how did they get this title? 89.101.56.213 (talk) 14:21, 25 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dubious[edit]

I dispute this:

He insisted in speaking only Irish, even in the House of Lords

His speeches in the House of Lords are hard to track down (he's not indexed under Ashbourne or Gibson). However these two speeches have only a few sentences in Irish and the majority in English: jnestorius^(talk) 10:40, 29 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the claim and added a source which makes an incompatible claim consistent with the evidence. jnestorius^(talk) 14:04, 29 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]