Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin, DSO, MC (29 November 1872 – 1 March 1951) was an Australian statistician and economist.
[3] He joined the Australian Imperial Force in 1916 and served in France in the First World War, finishing with the rank of Major having been awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Military Cross.
In 1929 he was made Ritchie Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne and held that post until 1940, studying State and Federal financial relations, the concept of taxable capacity, and the measurement of tariff costs and their distribution.
[4] During the Depression of 1928-32, Giblin wrote a series of press articles entitled "Letters to John Smith, the causes of the crisis", in order to explain the situation to the general public.
King's College, Cambridge, of which he had been made a Supernumerary Fellow in 1937, established in his memory a Giblin studentship, open to an Australian graduate.