He was educated at Westminster School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge;[3] after which he did the Grand Tour.
On 3 June 1736 he married Judith née Porten: their son became the historian Edward Gibbon.
[4] Judith died in December 1747; and on 8 April 1755 he married secondly Dorothea née Patten.
[5] On 12 June 1759 he was appointed Major of the South Hampshire Militia when that regiment was embodied during the Seven Years' War (his son served as Captain of the regiment's Grenadier Company).
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