There was LF Giblin, born in Tasmania, sportsman, student at Cambridge, some-time acquaintance of the Bloomsbury Set, Yukon adventurer, enlisted soldier in middle age and wounded three times in the First World War, Tasmanian Government Statistician, adviser to government on economic policy in the 1930s depression and board member of the Commonwealth Bank.
Then there were those called “Giblin’s Platoon” in the very nice book of that name by William Coleman, Selwyn Cornish and Alf Hagger:2 •  Sir Douglas Copland, lecturer at University of Tasmania, the first dean of the University of Tasmania faculty of commerce, Professor at the University of Melbourne, adviser, contributor to Depression era policies, inaugural Alfred Marshall lecturer at Cambridge, diplomat and founding Vice Chancellor of the Australian National University.