Edward Gibbon (1707–1770) was an 18th-century English MP: for Petersfield from 1734 to 1741;'One hundred years of a pocket borough: Petersfield and Parliament, 1685-1783' Surry, N. p20: Petersfield; Petersfield Area Historical Society (Paper No. 7); 1983 and Southampton from 1741 to 1747.Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 134–136. .
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;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 after which he did the Grand Tour. On 3 June 1736 he married Judith née Porten: their son became the historian Edward Gibbon.D. M. Low, Edward Gibbon. 1737–1794 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1937), p. 7. Judith died in December 1747; and on 8 April 1755 he married secondly Dorothea née Patten.History of Parliament On-line
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).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,
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