Anthony Gibson, Regional Director of the NFU Rallies the farmers at the Westpoint meeting (Photograph by Tim Cuff).
Anthony Gibson OBE, MA, FRAgS is a Westcountryman, born in Devon, living in Somerset, who has spent most of his working life with the National Farmers Union, including 14 eventful years as its South-West Regional Director.
He was educated at Sparkwell Village School, Manadon Vale Primary School, Monkton Combe School and The Queen’s College Oxford, where he read modern history. He joined the NFU in 1972 at its Knightsbridge HQ, before moving back to the West Country in 1976 to become, successively, South-West Regional Information Officer, Somerset County Secretary, and, when the NFU was regionalised in 1979, Senior Policy Adviser and Regional Director, before a final two years as national Director of Communications.