Phillips Gybbon
Hole Park, Rolvenden
Member of Parliament forRye
In office 1707–1762
Personal details
Born	(1678-10-11)11 October 1678
Died	12 March 1762(1762-03-12) (aged 83)
Political party	Whig
Children	1 daughter
Residence(s)	Hole Park,Rolvenden,Kent

Phillips Gybbon (11 October 1678 – 12 March 1762), ofHole Park,Rolvenden, inKent, was an English Whig politician who sat in theHouse of Commons between 1707 and 1762.

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 enteredMiddle Temple in 1694. He succeeded his father in 1719.^[1]

Gybbon entered Parliament in 1707 asWhigMember of Parliament forRye, and represented the constituency until his death 55 years later, eventually becomingFather of the House of Commons from 1749. Early in his career he was appointed a Commissioner of Revenue inIreland, and in the 1720s was Chairman of theCommittee of Privileges and Elections. From 1726 to 1730, he wasSurveyor-General of Land Revenues. For the next few years he was in opposition, supportingPulteney againstRobert Walpole's administration. On Walpole's fall in 1742, Gybbon was appointed aLord of the Treasury inWilmington's government, retaining the post afterHenry Pelham replaced Wilmington in 1743 but losing office in the reshuffle afterCarteret was sacked at the end of 1744.^[2]

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.^[2]

• Robert Beatson (1807).A chronological register of both houses of the British Parliament, from the union in 1708, to the third Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in 1807. printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme [by J. Chalmers & Co.]
• Lewis Namier & John Brooke,The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1754-1790, London: HMSO, 1964)

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