Suicide of William Arthur Gibbs
William Arthur Gibbs (1865 – 4 May 1877) was the son of a glass-painter from Kingsland Road[1] and a schoolboy at Christ's Hospital school in Sussex, England, who came to public attention after committing suicide by hanging on 4 May 1877 at age 12 out of fear of repeated punishments, including flogging, for having run away from the school to his family home.[2] Gibbs had complained to his sister and his father that he was made a fag at school, that an older student had held his head underwater while he was bathing and that he would rather hang himself than be made a fag to that older student again. Both an older student and a teacher had admitted to corporally punishing Gibbs.[1] This caused an outcry and the government subsequently held an official inquiry.[3][4]
References
- ^ a b "Notes of the Month". The Poor Law Magazine and Parochial Journal. 5 (1). James Turner & Company: 415. 1877. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
- ^ "Parliamentary Papers, Volume 26", Great Britain Parliament. House of Commons, H.M. Stationery Office, 1877, pages 1-2.
- ^ Lionel Rose (2002), The Erosion of Childhood: Childhood in Britain 1860-1918, Routledge, ISBN 9780203221402
- ^ George A. T. Allan, Jack Eric Morpurgo (1984), Christ's Hospital, Town & County, p. 70, ISBN 9780863640056,
The immediate cause was the suicide, on 4th May 1877 of a 12 years old Blue. William Gibbs. The outcry that followed forced the Home Secretary to set up a Commission of Inquiry ...
External links
- "SUICIDE OF A BLUECOAT BOY". Evening Post. 18 September 1877. Vol XV Issue 219. Retrieved 16 September 2018 – via paperspast.natlib.govt.nz.
- "THE REPORT ON CHRIST'S HOSPITAL". The Spectator Archive. 18 August 1877. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
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