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Brother Edward Gibbon<\/strong><\/p>\n

May 8th 1737<\/sup> \u2013\u00a0 January 16th 1794<\/p>\n

Member of:<\/p>\n

Lodge of Friendship #3, London England<\/p>\n

English historian, writer and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire<\/a>, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788 and is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open criticism of organized religion.<\/sup><\/p>\n

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