 Hibbert Gate and its flanking walls were dismantled in 1932 as its narrow archway impeded traffic.As a shipowner and chairman of the West Indies Merchants, Hibbert associated with philanthropist Sir William Hillary and Thomas Wilson, Liberal MP for Southwark, to help found the "National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck" – an institution better known today as the Royal National Lifeboat Institution – on 4 March 1824.Hibbert's portrait was painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence in 1812 and by John Hoppner (c.1800).