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]

On 12 June 1759 he was appointed Major of the South Hampshire Militia when that regiment was embodied during the Seven Years' War (his son served as Captain of the regiment's Grenadier Company).[6]

References

  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
  6. ^ Lloyd-Verney, George Hope; Hunt, J. Mouat F. (1894). Records of the Infantry Militia Battalions of the County of Southampton from A.D. 1757 to 1894. Longmans, Green, pp 144, 151 Republished by Legare Street Press, 2023, ISBN 978-1-02-178473-5


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