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Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon, oil painting by Henry Walton, 1774; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Edward Gibbon was publicly readmitted to the Protestant communion at Christmas 1754.1
Following his conversion to the Roman Catholic Church in 1753, his father sent him to Lausanne to live with a Calvinist minister, the Rev. Daniel Pavillard. Under Pavillard's instruction, Gibbon eventually renounced his Catholic faith and returned to Protestantism.1