Career
Educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, Gibson-Watt served in the Welsh Guards from 1939 to 1946, seeing action in the North African campaign and the Italian campaign. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1943, later gaining two bars. A farmer and forester, he served as a Radnor County Councillor and chairman of the Livestock Export Council.
He held this seat until September 1974.
He held office as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 1959-1961, as an opposition spokesman on communications and broadcasting from 1965 and as Minister of State at the Welsh Office from 1970-1974. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1974.
He was also Chairman of Timber Growers United Kingdom, 1987-1990 (Honorary President, 1993-1998), a Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Society, and President of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society, 1976 (Chairman of the Council, 1976-1994). In 1979 he was created a life peer as Baron Gibson-Watt, of the Wye in the District of Radnor.