Education
University of Glasgow.
University of Glasgow.
He received degrees of Master of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws, 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, located at Hamilton Academy, and taught in the Academy"s senior school, one of his pupils being Thomas Cassells, who was also to serve as a Labour Member of Parliament (for Dunbartonshire, and for the same period, 1936-1941) In 1915, shortly after the outbreak of the First World War, Gibson joined the Royal Garrison Artillery.
After the War, in 1918, Gibson was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates, and between 1929 and 1931, was Senior Advocate Depute, one of the country"s senior prosecutors.
He stood down from his seat in 1941, when he was appointed as Chairman of the Scottish Land Court, succeeding another former pupil of Hamilton Academy, Sir Thomas David King Murray (Lord Murray)
Gibson was an unsuccessful candidate in Roxburgh and Selkirk in 1929, Edinburgh North in 1931, at the Combined Scottish Universities in a 1934 by-election, and Dundee in the 1935 general election.
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He was Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Greenock from 1936 to 1941, and Chairman of the Scottish Land Court from 1941 to 1965. He was a member of the Labour Party and stood in a number of elections, serving as Member of Parliament for Greenock from 1936 to 1941.
He was elected as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Greenock at a by-election in 1936, and held his seat until he resigned from the House of Commons in 1941 on his appointment as Chairman of the Scottish Land Court.