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GIBBARD, WILLIAM, son of William Gibbard, Parliament Street, Westminster, and Sharnbrook Grange, Beds.; b.; adm. 8 Sep 1777; KS (aged 14) 1783. [Whitmore notes d. at siege of Seringapatam 1799, but not found in EI Kalendar 1793, and he is not mentioned in his father’s will dated 31 Jan 1797]

Gibbens, Trevor Charles Noel, son of George Gibbens of Reigate, Surrey, and Sarah Jane, d. of Sir William Pickles Hartley, jam manufacturer, of Southport, Lancs; b. 28 Dec. 1912; adm. Jan. 1927 (R); left July 1931; Emmanuel Coll. Camb., matric. 1932, BA 1935, MA 1939; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch. 1935-9, MRCS LRCP 1938; MB 1939; RAMC 1939-45, attached 1 Battn Oxf. & Bucks LI (Capt.); p.o.w. 1940-5 (escaped but later recaptured); MBE Feb. 1946; Nuffield Travelling Fellow in Psychological Medicine 1948-50; hon. consult. psychiatrist Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hosps 1950-83; Prof. of Forensic Psychiatry Univ. of London; member Roy. Commn on Penal Reform 1964-6; Pres. Brit. Acad. of Forensic Sciences 1967; Vice-Chair­man Howard League for Penal Reform; FRCP, FRCPsych 1974; CBE 1977; m. 24 Aug. 1950 Patricia Margaret, sister of Derek Rivers Mullis (qv); d. 27 Oct. 1983.

GIBBON, ---; b.; in school lists 1748, 1749.

GIBBON, EDWARD ANACLETO; b. 13 Jul 1845; adm. (G) 12 Apr 1861; left Whitsun 1862.

GIBBON, EDWARD, only son of Edward Gibbon, Putney, Surrey, army contractor and director East India Company and South Sea Company, and Catherine, dau. of Richard Acton, Leadenhall Street, London, goldsmith; b. Oct 1707; adm. Jun or Jul 1716; in under school lists 1716-20; Emmanuel Coll. Camb., adm. pens. 3 Oct 1723, afterwards fellow commoner; Grand Tour (France, Italy); MP Petersfield 1734-41, Southampton 1741-7; Alderman, City of London, Vintry ward 24 Mar 1742/3 - 18 Jun 1745; a Tory and opponent of Sir Robert Walpole; of Buriton, Hampshire; m. 1st, 3 Jun 1736 Judith, dau. of James Porten, Putney, Surrey, merchant; m. 2nd, 8 Apr 1755 Dorothea, sister of David Patton (qv); d. 12 Nov 1770.

GIBBON, EDWARD, only son of Edward Gibbon (qv), and his first wife; b. 27 Apr 1737; adm. Jan 1747/8 (Porten's); left Aug 1750, on account of ill-health; Magdalen Coll. Oxford, adm. fellow commoner 3 Apr 1752; received into Roman Catholic church 8 Jun 1752, but returned to Protestantism at Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1753; became attached to Susanne Curchod (afterwards Mme Necker), but at his father’s wish the engagement was broken off; adm. to Academy, Lausanne 1 Dec 1756; officer in Hampshire Militia 12 Jun 1759-70; author, Essai sur l’Etude de la Litterature, 1761; met John Baker Holroyd (afterwards Lord Sheffield) at Lausanne 1764; in Italy 1764-5; the idea of writing on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire first occurred to him when in Rome on 15 Oct 1764; author, Mémoires Littéraires de la Grande Bretagne, 1767-8, jointly with his Swiss friend Deyverdun; author, Critical Observations on the Sixth Book of the Aeneid, 1770, attacking Warburton; settled in London 1772; elected to The Club 1774; MP Liskeard 1774-80, Lymington 25 Jun 1781-4; a Commissioner for Trade and Foreign Plantations 6 Jul 1779 - Jun 1782; Professor of Ancient History, Royal Academy, from 1787; FSA 20 Nov 1788, FRS 27 Nov 1788; author, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776-87, 4 vols.; defended the chapters on Christianity in a Vindication, 1779; retired to Lausanne 1783; his Miscellaneous Works, edited by his friend Lord Sheffield, and including his Memoirs of My Life and Writings, were published in 1796; d. unm. 16 Jan 1794. DNB.