Born in 1737, died in 1794; educated at Oxford, but was not
graduated; became a Catholic, but soon renounced that faith;
sent by his father to Lausanne, Switzerland, for instruction
by a Calvinist minister in 1753; there met and fell in love
with, but did not marry, Susanne Curchod; served in the
militia, becoming a colonel in 1759-70; traveled in France
and Italy in 1763-65; elected to Parliament in 1764; settled
permanently in Lausanne in 1783; published the first volume
of his "Decline and Fall" in 1776, and the last in 1778;
wrote also "Memoirs of My Life and Writings."
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