Martin Gibson was born and brought up in rural north Lancashire. He studied history at New College, Oxford, and after graduating, read law at The City University, London. He qualified as a barrister in 1990 and then practised from commercial chambers in Gray’s Inn, London.
‘Servant of Empire’, the biography of his great-grandfather, is his first book. The author’s maternal grandfather Edmund John – always known as ‘Jack’ – was Thomas Wilson Bracken’s second son.

Martin Gibson was born and brought up in rural north Lancashire. He studied history at New College, Oxford, and after graduating, read law at The City University, London. He qualified as a barrister in 1990 and then practised from commercial chambers in Gray’s Inn, London.
‘Servant of Empire’, the biography of his great-grandfather, is his first book. The author’s maternal grandfather Edmund John – always known as ‘Jack’ – was Thomas Wilson Bracken’s second son.