History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1

Excerpt from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1 of 12 Edward Gibbon was defcended from an ancient family of that name in Kent His grand-father, Edward Gib bon, a citizen of London, was appointed one of the com miflioners of cufloms, under the Tory adminiftration of the 1219: four years of Queen Anne, and was praifed by Lord Bolingbroke for his knowledge of commerce and finance. He was elected one of the dire tors of the unfortunate South Sea Company, in the year 17r6, at which time he had acquired an independent fortune of the whole of which he loft when the company failed in 1720. The fum of however, was al lowed for his maintenance, and on this foundation he reared another fortune, not much inferior to the firf'c, and fecured a part of it in the purchafe of landed property. He died in December 1736, at: his houfe at Putney, and by his lali: will enriched two daughters, at the expence of his fon Edward who had married againlt his confent.

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