Theodore Cracraft Hope, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)
“ HIBBERT, Sir JOHN TOMLINSON (1824–1908) , politician, born on 5 Jan. 1824 at Lyon House, Oldham, was eldest son of Elijah Hibbert, one of the founders of the firm of Hibbert, Platt & Sons, machinists, by his wife Betty, daughter of Abraham Hilton of Cross Bank, near Oldham. At thirteen he was sent to a private school, Green Brow, Silloth, Cumberland. Entered at Shrewsbury school in June 1837, under Benjamin Hall Kennedy [q. v.] , he there distinguished himself as an athlete. ”
