ANTHONY GIBSON
Anthony Gibson was born in Devon in 1949, the eldest son of the broadcaster and cricket writer Alan Gibson and of Olwen Gibson, who taught English for many years at Plympton Grammar School. He read History at The Queen’s College, Oxford and has spent most of his working life with the National Farmers’ Union in the South West, championing the cause of the region’s farming community. He has honorary degrees from the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, is a Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Societies and in 2003 was awarded the OBE for services to the rural community.
His first book, Of Didcot and the Demon – The Cricketing Times of Alan Gibson, was the MCC and Cricket Society’s Cricket Book of the Year for 2009.
He has three children, Joanna, Becky and George, and lives with his second wife Claire at Langport on the Somerset Levels.