Editing Gavin Strang (section)

==Early life==
A farmer's son, Strang grew up in [[Perthshire]] and attended the independent [[Morrison's Academy]] in [[Crieff]]. After gaining a [[Bachelor of Science|BSc]] in Genetics from the [[University of Edinburgh]] in 1964, he gained a Diploma in Agricultural Science from [[Churchill College, Cambridge]] and a PhD in Agricultural Science from Edinburgh, presenting the thesis ''"The genetic aspects of litter productivity in British pigs"''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Strang|first=G. S.|date=1968|title=Genetic aspects of litter productivity in British pigs|url=https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/16048|language=en|journal=|access-date=22 February 2021|archive-date=2 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202081544/https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/16048|url-status=live}}</ref> From 1966 to 1968, he was a member of the Tayside Economic Planning Consultative Group and, from 1968 to 1970, was a scientist at the [[Agricultural and Food Research Council]] and Animal Breeding Research Organisation in Edinburgh.