Perceval Gibbon, a native of Wales, was educated at Baden and became a journalist on South Africa's now defunct Rand Daily Mail. He was a short-story writer and a poet.

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• --. The triumph of the royal Navy (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919?). brief DA 0055421 Robarts Library