Antony Gibbs & Sons

Antony Gibbs & Sons
Company type	Partnership; (1808–1973); Public limited company ; (1973–1981);
Founded	1808
Founder	Antony Gibbs; William Gibbs; Henry Gibbs;
Defunct	22 June 2005
Fate	Dissolved
Successor	HSBC Commercial Insurance ; (1981–2012); Marsh & McLennan ; (2012–present);
Number of locations	London; Bristol; Liverpool; Melbourne; Lima; Valparaíso;
Area served	Global
Key people	Alban Gibbs; Vicary Gibbs;
Services	Trading Woollen Cloth; Import/Export Spanish wine, Fruit, Guano; Shipping; Merchant Bank; Insurance Brokerage;

Antony Gibbs & Sons was a British trading company, which was founded by Antony Gibbs in 1808 in London. The company's interests spanned trading in cloth, fruit, wine, guano, and nitrate, which led to it becoming involved in banking, shipping and insurance. Having been family-owned from its foundation, by the turn of the 20th century it was focused on banking and insurance rather than inport and export.

Floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1973, it was bought by HSBC in 1981 and formed the basis of its insurance broking arm, now part of global insurance company Marsh McLennan.

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