- Title
- The book that never was : The biography of Sir Robert Gibson
- Creator
- Millmow, Alex
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/64080
- Identifier
- vital:614
- Identifier
- ISSN:0035-8762
- Abstract
- This paper celebrates the life of a businessman and central banker who, in the depression years, outshone and prevailed over both Theodore and Jack Lang. One member of the Scullin Cabinet, the fiery radical Frank Anstey recalled that 'with his seven year tenure in his pocket he was more than ever Prime Minister and the elected government was only the tube through which he issued orders'. The puzzle then is why Gibson has not received the coverage and attention that he deserves. While there has been a brief memoir of Gibson by Schedvin, no biography of him exists. Just after Gibson dies in 1934 the Commonwealth Bank, with the support of Gibson's Melbourne-based business and banking associates, was intent upon commissioning a short biography with University of Melbourne historian Sir Ernest Scott (1867-1939) assigned to undertake the task. At the same time on one of Gibson's daughters, Phyllis, wrote a doting, but incomplete, memoir of her father. The draft was never completed nor circulated but it led to an interesting sequel.; C1
- Publisher
- Sydney, Australia Royal Australian Historical Society
- Relation
- Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society Vol. 92, no. 2 (2006), p. 183-201
- Rights
- Copyright Royal Australian Historical Society
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 2103 Historical Studies; Robert Gibson; Australia; Biography; Commonwealth bank; Banker
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