Phillips Gybbon
Phillips Gybbon (11 October 1678 – 12 March 1762), of
House of Commons
between 1707 and 1762.
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Gybbon was the son of Robert Gybbon of Hole Park, and his wife Elizabeth Phillips, daughter of John Phillips of St. Clement Danes. He travelled abroad in Holland and Germany and entered Middle Temple in 1694. He succeeded his father in 1719.[1]
Gybbon entered Parliament in 1707 as
Committee of Privileges and Elections. From 1726 to 1730, he was Surveyor-General of Land Revenues
.
For the next few years he was in opposition, supporting Lord of the Treasury in Wilmington's government, retaining the post after Henry Pelham replaced Wilmington in 1743 but losing office in the reshuffle after Carteret was sacked at the end of 1744.[2]
He died in 1762, having married Catherine, the daughter of Honor Bier, with whom he had an only daughter. She left Hole Park to a Mrs Jefferson who was married to a John Beardsworth.[2]
References
- ^ "GYBBON, Phillips (1678-1762), of Hole Park, Rolvenden, Kent". History of Parliament Online (1690-1715). Retrieved 25 August 2018.
- ^ a b "GYBBON, Phillips (1678-1762), of Hole Park, Rolvenden, Kent". History of Parliament Online (1715-1754). Retrieved 25 August 2018.
- Robert Beatson (1807). A chronological register of both houses of the British Parliament, from the union in 1708, to the third Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in 1807. printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme [by J. Chalmers & Co.]
- Lewis Namier & John Brooke, The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1754-1790, London: HMSO, 1964)
