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Australian National Botanic Gardens - Biography Home Biography Gibbs, May (1877 - 1969) (born 17 January 1877, died on 27 November 1969) Artist and author, the daughter of H. W. Gibbs of Perth, WA, and Surrey, England. She was about four when she arrived in Western Australia with her parents in 1879. She was educated at the Church of England Grammar School, Perth, and later studied at art and ...