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Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon, oil painting by Henry Walton, 1774; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Edward Gibbon served in the British Parliament starting in 1774. During his tenure, he was an assiduous but silent supporter of the government led by Lord North.1