Lord Ashbourne married Frances Maria Adelaide Colles (1849–1926), daughter of barrister Henry Jonathan Cope Colles and his wife Elizabeth Mary, daughter of John Mayne of Dublin, in 1868. Lady Ashbourne was a niece of John Dawson Mayne and granddaughter of Abraham Colles; her sister Anna married another eminent judge Sir Edmund Thomas Bewley They lived in Fitzwilliam Square and produced four sons, the eldest son and heir being William Gibson, 2nd Baron Ashbourne, and four daughters. One of their daughters, Violet Gibson, made an attempt to assassinate Benito Mussolini in 1926. Lord Ashburne died in London in 1913 and was cremated at Golders Green crematorium, his ashes being placed in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin. In Dublin, he was a member of the Kildare Street Club. Arms References External links Parliamentary Archives, Papers of Edward Gibson (1837-1913), 1st Baron Ashbourne, of Ashbourne, County Meath 1837 births 1913 deaths Lord chancellors of Ireland Lawyers from Dublin (city) Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Auditors of the College Historical Society Gibson, Edward Gibson, Edward Gibson, Edward Gibson, Edward Gibson, Edward Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council 1 Burials at Mount Jerome Cemetery and Crematorium Peers of the United Kingdom created by Queen Victoria