Suicide of William Gibbs

William Arthur Gibbs (1865-1877) was a schoolboy at Christ's Hospital school in Sussex, England, who committed suicide by hanging on 4 May 1877 at age 12 after being bullied and beaten. This caused an outcry and the government subsequently held an official inquiry.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ 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. 1877-09-18. Vol XV Issue 219. Retrieved 16 September 2018 – via paperspast.natlib.govt.nz.
"THE REPORT ON CHRIST'S HOSPITAL". The Spectator Archive. 18 Aug 1877. Retrieved 16 September 2018.

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[1] Lionel Rose (2002), The Erosion of Childhood: Childhood in Britain 1860-1918, Routledge, ISBN 9780203221402

[2] 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 ...