![]() ![]() He also took his place among the literary circles of London. After the death of his father, Gibbon settled in London and in 1774 was elected to Parliament where he sat for the next eight years, although he never once spoke in the Commons. It was while he was in Rome in 1764 that he first conceived the work that was eventually to become The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. ![]() Meanwhile, Gibbon served as a captain in the Hampshire Militia until 1763, when he returned to the Continent. In 1761 he published his Essai sur l'étude de la Littérature the English version appeared in 1764. His father sent him to Lausanne, in Switzerland, where, while studying Greek and French for the next five years, he re-joined the Protestant Church. His brief career as an undergraduate at Magdalen College, Oxford, ended when he joined the Catholic Church. Although his education was frequently interrupted by ill health, his knowledge was far-reaching. Edward Gibbon was born in 1737, in Putney, and was the only child of his parents to survive infancy. ![]()
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