George Gibb 1850 - 1925
- occupation:
- Solicitor, railway company manager
- Nationality:
- British
- born in:
- Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
studied law at London University;
1877 - became an assistant in the solicitors office of the Great Western Railway;
1880 - practice on his own. Gibb became a solicitor for the North Eastern Railway in 1882 eventually succeeding Henry Tennant as general manager in 1891. He transformed the way in which the NER operated, transforming its unstable finances into profit and making it the first main-line to electrify parts of its system. In 1905 he became deputy chairman and managing director of the Underground Electric Railway Company of London and chairman and managing director of the Metropolitan and District Railway. At the same time he was appointed as a non-executive director of the NER. Gibb left the Underground and the NER in 1910 to become chairman of the road board. Gibb was knighted for his services on the royal commission on London's transport, 1903-1905.