Edmund Gibson
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The Right Reverend and Right Honourable Edmund Gibson |
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| Bishop of London | |
Edmund Gibson by John Vanderbank
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| Church | Church of England |
| Diocese | Diocese of London |
| Elected | 1723 |
| Term ended | 1748 (death) |
| Predecessor | John Robinson |
| Successor | Thomas Sherlock |
| Other posts |
Bishop of Lincoln 1716–1720 Ardeacon of Surrey 1710–1716 |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | c. 1716 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1669 Bampton, Westmorland |
| Died | 6 September 1748 |
| Buried | All Saints Church, Fulham |
| Nationality | British |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Profession | Latin scholar |
| Alma mater | Queen's College, Oxford |
Edmund Gibson PC (1669 – 6 September 1748) was a British divine who served as Bishop of Lincoln and Bishop of London, jurist, and antiquary.
He was born in Bampton, Westmorland. In 1686 he was entered a scholar at Queen's College, Oxford. Shortly after Thomas Tenison's elevation to the see of Canterbury in 1694 Gibson was appointed chaplain and librarian to the archbishop, and in 1703 and 1710 respectively he became rector of Lambeth and archdeacon of Surrey.
In 1716 Gibson was presented to the see of Lincoln, whence he was in 1723 translated to London. For twenty-five years he exercised influence, being consulted by Sir Robert Walpole on ecclesiastical affairs.
While a conservative in church politics, and opposed to Methodism, he was no persecutor, and indeed broke with Walpole on the Quakers' Relief Bill of 1736. He exercised oversight over the morals of his diocese; and his denunciation of the masquerades which were popular at court finally lost him the royal favour. He served as a founding governor of a charity called the Foundling Hospital. His endorsement can be seen as significant since the Foundling Hospital, created by royal charter, was the nation's first non-church initiated institution to target this sort of social ill.
Gibson died in 1748, and is buried at All Saints Church, Fulham, London.
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