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2 unusual facts about Edmund Gibson


John Bettesworth

He married in 1711 Elizabeth Jones, the daughter of Revd John Jones, rector of Selattyn, Shropshire and sister of Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London.

St. George's, Bloomsbury

St George's was consecrated on 28 January 1730 by Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London.


William Somner

He made collections for a history of Kent, but abandoned this undertaking; a portion of the work was published at Oxford in 1693 by the Rev. James Brome, under the title of A Treatise of the Roman Ports and Forts in Kent, with notes by Edmund Gibson, and a life of the author by White Kennett.


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