Sir David Gibbons, KBE, (15 June 1927 – 30 March 2014) was a Bermudian politician and businessman. He served as Finance Minister and later as Premier for the

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. He had also served as a member of the Parliament of Bermuda. Gibbons attended

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and studied economics at

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. As Premier he dealt with the riots in 1977 after the hanging of two men convicted of the assassination of Governor

Richard Sharples Sir Richard Christopher Sharples, (6 August 1916 – 10 March 1973) was a British politician and Governor of Bermuda who was shot dead by assassins linked to a small militant Bermudian Black Power group called the Black Beret Cadre. The form ...

, and a general strike in 1981. He was an opponent of Bermudian independence from the United Kingdom. Both before and after his term in office Gibbons was a businessman. He ran the family business with his brother

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. He died after a short illness on 30 March 2014, aged 87.

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