Stella Gibbons experience of school, Gibbons found university exhilarating and made numerous friendships, particularly with Ida Graves, an aspiring poet who, although on a different course, attended some of the same lectures. The two shared a love of literature and a taste for subversive humour. Graves lived until 1999, and recalled in an interview late in life that many of the jokes they shared found their way into "Cold Comfort Farm", as did some of their common acquaintances. Soon after Gibbons began the course she contributed a poem, "The Marshes of My Soul", to the December 1921 issue of "University College Magazine".
Simon Gibbons Simon Gibbons Simon Gibbons is Professor of Medicinal Phytochemistry and Head of the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biological Chemistry at The UCL School of Pharmacy. He was the 2005 recipient of the Phytochemical Society of Europe Award for Phytochemistry, the 2012 Pharmanex Prize and was a Fellow of The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health. In 2010 he was appointed to the Home Office Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) as the Chemistry Council member and is Chairman of the ACMD's Novel Psychoactive Substances Work Group (NPSWG) which is tasked to look at the area of 'legal high' Novel