ANTHONY
GIBSON
Anthony Gibson is Alan Gibson’s eldest son. He followed his father
in reading history at The Queen’s College,
Oxford
, and has been both a cricket scorer and commentator for BBC radio.
But he is best known as a champion for the South West farming community,
in various roles with the National Farmers’
Union
, and was awarded the OBE for services to the rural community in 2003. He has
honorary degrees from the Universities of Exeter and
Plymouth
and is a Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Societies. He has three children,
Joanna, Becky and George, and lives with his second wife Claire at Langport on
the Somerset Levels.
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