Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Gibbon, Edward

by Joseph Foster

Gibbon, Edward, s. Edward, of Beriton, Hants, arm. Magdalen Coll., matric. (subs. 4 April), 1752, aged 14; author of the 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,' M.P. Liskeard 1774-80, Lymington June, 1781-4, a commissioner Board of Trade 1778-82, born 27 April, 1737, died 16 Jan., 1794.