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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.