Phillips Gybbon of Hole Park, Rolvenden

Rolvenden

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, in Kent

Kent

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, was an English Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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Gybbon entered Parliament in 1707 as Whig

British Whig Party

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 member for Rye

Rye (UK Parliament constituency)

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, and represented the constituency until his death 55 years later. Early in his career he was appointed a Commissioner of Revenue in Ireland

Ireland

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, and in the 1720s was Chairman of the Committee of Privileges and Elections. From 1726 to 1730, he was Surveyor-General of Land Revenues

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For the next few years he was in opposition, supporting Pulteney

William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath

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 against Robert Walpole

Robert Walpole

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's administration. On Walpole's fall in 1742, Gybbon was appointed a Lord of the Treasury

Lord of the Treasury

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 in Wilmington's

Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington

Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington KG, KB, PC was a British Whig statesman who served continuously in government from 1715 until his death. He served as the nominal head of government from 1742 until his death in 1743, but was merely a figurehead for the true leader of the government, Lord...

 government, retaining the post after Henry Pelham

Henry Pelham

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 replaced Wilmington in 1743 but losing office in the reshuffle after Carteret

John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville

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was sacked at the end of 1744.