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Ian Forester Gibson
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Ian Forester Gibson was educated at Glasgow High School, before enrolling at Dundee School of Economics and later the London School of Economics from where he obtained a PhD. In 1950, at the age of 26, he was appointed as a permanent lecturer at Dundee School of Economics, having previously been an assistant lecturer. He was the first student of the School to go on to be a lecturer in the same School. When the School became part of Queen's College, Dundee in 1955 he joined the College as a lecturer in economics, and left around 1960. At the 1950 general election he contested the Wimbledon constituency for the Liberal Party, coming third.