![]() Īs a youth, Gibbon's health was under constant threat. His paternal grandmother, Catherine Acton, was granddaughter of Sir Walter Acton, 2nd Baronet. Gibbon's father was thus able to inherit a substantial estate. His grandfather, also named Edward, had lost his assets as a result of the South Sea bubble stock-market collapse in 1720 but eventually regained much of his wealth. He had six siblings: five brothers and one sister, all of whom died in infancy. ![]() ![]() Early life: 1737–1752 Įdward Gibbon was born in 1737, the son of Edward and Judith Gibbon at Lime Grove, in the town of Putney, Surrey. ![]() His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in six volumes between 17, is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its polemical criticism of organised religion. Edward Gibbon FRS ( / ˈ ɡ ɪ b ən/ – 16 January 1794) was an English essayist, historian, and politician. ![]()
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