Prof. Giblin was born in Hobart, the son of a former Premier of Tasmania. He was educated at the Hutchins School, Hobart, the University College, London, and King's College, Cambridge. After taking his degree he left England for British Columbia, to join the Klondike gold rush, and worked there for 8 years. He returned to Tasmania in 1906 and grew apples and taught secondary maths. He accepted a commission in the Commonwealth Military Forces and was elected as a Labor member for Hobart in State Parliament. During World War I he served in the AIF and attained the rank of major. After the war he returned to his farm, but soon became Tasmanian Government Statistician. He held this position from 1920-1928, and then accepted a professorial post at Melbourne University which he held until 1940. When World War II broke out, Giblin went to Canberra at the service of the Commonwealth Government, and remained there till the war ended. For seven years, until 1946, he was Chairman of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Financial and Economic Policy. At the age of 72 he undertook the compilation of the history of the Commonwealth Bank, and the volume, The Growth of a Central Bank, was published shortly after his death in 1951.
From the description of Papers of Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin [manuscript]. 1885-1965. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225712758
