Edward Gibbon wrote "the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire". It has become one of the most acclaimed literary works of the 18 century and is used as a model for metholigies by many...
Edward Gibbon Wakefield was born in London on 20 March 1796, the eldest son of Edward Wakefield, a London land agent and surveyor, and his wife Susanna, née Crash, an Essex farmer's daughter. The...