Three new Deputy Lieutenants for Wiltshire appointed

Piers Dibben and Ninna Gibson JP were also appointed Deputy Lieutenants by the Lord-Lieutenant of Wiltshire Sarah Rose Troughton.

Mrs. Troughton said: “I am delighted to appoint three new Deputy Lieutenants. Their individual expertise and affection for the county will greatly enhance the work of the Lieutenancy in Wiltshire over the coming years.”

Lt Gen Sir Andrew Gregory KBE CB read engineering at St John’s College, Cambridge, and worked for Metal Box before joining the Royal Artillery in 1981.

His military career included operational tours in Northern Ireland, the Balkans and Iraq with a final appointment as Chief of Defence People in the Ministry of Defence.

In 2016, he became the controller of SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity which provides front line welfare support to service personnel, veterans and their families throughout the United Kingdom.

And in May 2017 he was appointed Master Gunner St James’s Park, the head of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. Andrew is married, has two sons, and has lived in Salisbury since 2000.

Ninna Gibson JP worked in London for Mercury Asset Management after reading economics at Cambridge.

She became a magistrate in 1998 and currently sits as chair in the Adult Criminal and Family Courts in Swindon and Salisbury. Ninna is Chair of Trustees of The White Horse Federation, which responsible for 31 schools, secondary, primary and special, in Swindon, Wiltshire and neighbouring counties.

From 2011 – 2018 Ninna was Chair of Governors at Springfields Academy in Calne, a day and residential school for young people with autism and complex emotional issues. She is also a director and company secretary of a financial investment company and a partner, with her husband, in a farm breeding pedigree Hereford cattle. Ninna lives in Minal, near Marlborough.

Piers Dibben is Chairman of Calne based business Healthmatic Ltd and over the years, has been a director and shareholder of a number of local companies including Smallbone of Devizes. He started his career in the City with Schroders before setting up his own financial business in 1995.

After ten years in London, he moved back to the Malmesbury area in 1999 and became a director of Healthmatic.

In 2001 a neighbour asked him to a Youth Action Wiltshire board meeting, and now almost 20 years later, he is chair of Youth Action and a trustee of Community First Wiltshire.

Piers is an outdoor enthusiast and has raced with variously low levels of success on horses, boats, skis, bikes and trainers.