Edward Gibbon (1707–1770) was an 18th-century English MP: for Petersfield from 1734 to 1741; and Southampton from 1741 to 1747.
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; after which he did the Grand Tour. On 3 June 1736 he married Judith née Porten: their son became the historian Edward Gibbon. Judith died in December 1747; and on 8 April 1755 he married secondly Dorothea née Patten.
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.
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| Preceded byNorton Powlett | Member of Parliament for Petersfield 1734–1741 With: William Jolliffe |
Succeeded byJohn Jolliffe |
| Preceded byThomas Lee Dummer | Member of Parliament for Southampton 1741–1747 With: Peter Delmé |
Succeeded byAnthony Langley Swymmer |
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