Edward Gibbon (died 1770)

Edward Gibbon (1707–1770) was an 18th-century English MP: for Petersfield from 1734 to 1741;^[1] and Southampton from 1741 to 1747.^[2]

Gibbon was the only son of Edward Gibbon of Putney and his wife Catherine née Acton. He was educated at Westminster School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge;^[3] after which he did the Grand Tour. On 3 June 1736 he married Judith née Porten: their son became the historian Edward Gibbon.^[4] Judith died in December 1747; and on 8 April 1755 he married secondly Dorothea née Patten.^[5]

References

^ 'One hundred years of a pocket borough: Petersfield and Parliament, 1685-1783' Surry, N. p20: Petersfield; Petersfield Area Historical Society (Paper No. 7); 1983 ISSN 0308-9266
^ Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 134–136. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
^ Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209-1751 Vol. ii Chalmers – Fytche (1944) p208
^ D. M. Low, Edward Gibbon. 1737–1794 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1937), p. 7.
^ History of Parliament On-line

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Norton Powlett	Member of Parliament for Petersfield 1734–1741 With: William Jolliffe	Succeeded by John Jolliffe
Preceded by Thomas Lee Dummer	Member of Parliament for Southampton 1741–1747 With: Peter Delmé	Succeeded by Anthony Langley Swymmer

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[1] 'One hundred years of a pocket borough: Petersfield and Parliament, 1685-1783' Surry, N. p20: Petersfield; Petersfield Area Historical Society (Paper No. 7); 1983 ISSN 0308-9266

[2] Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 134–136. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.

[3] Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209-1751 Vol. ii Chalmers – Fytche (1944) p208

[4] D. M. Low, Edward Gibbon. 1737–1794 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1937), p. 7.

[5] History of Parliament On-line

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