Phillips Gybbon (11 October 1678 – 12 March 1762), of Hole Park,

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, in

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, was an English Whig politician who sat in the

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between 1707 and 1762. Hole Park (geograph 4156820)

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

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in 1694. He succeeded his father in 1719. Gybbon entered Parliament in 1707 as Whig

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for Rye, and represented the constituency until his death 55 years later, eventually becoming

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from 1749. Early in his career he was appointed a Commissioner of Revenue in

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, and in the 1720s was Chairman of the 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 Pulteney against Robert Walpole's administration. On Walpole's fall in 1742, Gybbon was appointed a

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in Wilmington's government, retaining the post after

Henry Pelham Henry Pelham (25 September 1694 – 6 March 1754) was a British Whig statesman who served as 3rd Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1743 until his death in 1754. He was the younger brother of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, who ...

replaced Wilmington in 1743 but losing office in the reshuffle after Carteret was sacked at the end of 1744. 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.

References

* * Lewis Namier & John Brooke, ''The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1754-1790'', London: HMSO, 1964) , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Gybbon, Phillips 1678 births 1762 deaths People from Rolvenden Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies British MPs 1707–1708 British MPs 1708–1710 British MPs 1710–1713 British MPs 1713–1715 British MPs 1715–1722 British MPs 1722–1727 British MPs 1727–1734 British MPs 1734–1741 British MPs 1741–1747 British MPs 1747–1754 British MPs 1754–1761 British MPs 1761–1768