Edward Gibbon ( 1737 - 1794 )

Birth: Putney, London, England (27 April 1737) Death: London (16 January 1794) Burial: The Sheffield family burial-place at Fletching, Sussex Education: Magdalen College, Oxford; private study in Lausanne Career: MP for Liskeard (1774); MP for Lymington; published first volume of "Decline and Fall" (1776) and finished the work in 1788 Member of RSA Membership: Fellow Election Date: 27/11/1788.