Robert Gibson, Lord Gibson (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Gibson, Lord Gibson (20 April 1886 - 9 April 1965) was a Scottish lawyer and politician. He was Member of Parliament for Greenock from 1936 to 1941, and Chairman of the Scottish Land Court from 1941 to 1965. Gibson was educated at Hamilton Academy and studied at the University of Glasgow, where he was Cunninghame Gold Medallist in Mathematics, Donaldson Scholar in Chemistry, Major Young Bursar in Arts and Law, Metcalfe Bursar in Science, and Stewart Bursar and Prizeman in Law. He received degrees of M.A., B.Sc. and LL.B., all at the University of Glasgow. He was elected Secretary of the Glasgow University Students' Representative Council in 1909, and President in 1910. In 1911, he was appointed Lecturer in Applied Electricity at Hamilton Technical School, and in 1915, shortly after the outbreak of the First World War, joined the Royal Garrison Artillery.