Lyndhurst Giblin

Lyndhurst Giblin

Professor Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin DSO MC (29 November 1872 - 1 March 1951) was an Australian statistician and economist. He led a colourful life; he was an unsuccessful gold prospector, played rugby union for England, and fought in the First World War.

Biography

Giblin was the son of William Giblin, former Premier of Tasmania . He was educated at Hutchins School, in Hobart, before going to England to study at University College, London and King's College, Cambridge, graduating as a Master of Arts, with Honours in mathematics. It was there that he played international rugby for England.

He travelled the world and unsuccessfully tried gold mining in northern British Columbia. He returned to Tasmania in 1906, taking up fruit growing and farming. Between 1912 and 1915 was a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. He joined the Australian Imperial Force in 1916 and served in France during in the First World War, finishing with the rank of Major having been awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Military Cross.

In 1918 Giblin married Eilean Mary Burton. Between 1919 and 1928 he was the Government Statistician of Tasmania. In 1929 he was made Ritchie Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne and held that post until 1940, studying State and Federal financial relations, the concept of taxable capacity, and the measurement of tariff costs and their distribution. During the Depression of 1928-32, Giblin wrote a series of press articles entitled "Letters to John Smith, the causes of the crisis", in order to explain the situation to the general public. He was appointed as a financial advisor and given the office of Commonwealth Statistician in 1931 by the Commonwealth Government led by J.A. Lyons.

He was a member of the Commonwealth Grants Commission, between 1922 and 1936, director of the Commonwealth Bank between 1935 and 1942, and chairman of the Commonwealth Financial and Economic Committee from 1939 until 1946.

King's College, Cambridge, of which he had been made a Supernumerary Fellow in 1937, established in his memory a Giblin studentship, open to an Australian graduate.

Bibliography

* Growth of a Central Bank (1951)

External links

* http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms366
* http://cupid.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/het/giblin/bio.html
* http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/0366.html#bio


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