Person
Edward Gibbon
English historian and Member of Parliament
Edward Gibbon (27 April 1737 – 16 January 1794) is an English historian and Member of Parliament.
His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, is published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788.
The Decline and Fall is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open criticism of organized religion.