Brampton Gurdon (Norfolk MP)

For his son, Sir Brampton Gurdon, see William Brampton Gurdon.

Brampton Gurdon
Member of Parliament
for West Norfolk
In office
30 March 1857 – 24 July 1865
Serving with Gerge Bentinck
Preceded byWilliam Bagge
Gerge Bentinck
Succeeded byWilliam Bagge
Thomas de Grey
Personal details
Born
John Brampton Gurdon

25 September 1797
Died28 April 1881(1881-04-28) (aged 83)
NationalityBritish
Political partyLiberal
Other political
affiliations		Whig (until 1859)
Spouse
Henrietta Susannah Ridley-Colborne
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(m. 1828)​
ChildrenFour, including Robert and William
Parent(s)Theophilus Thornhagh Gurdon
Anne Mellish

John Brampton Gurdon, known as Brampton Gurdon, (25 September 1797 – 28 April 1881)[1] was a British Liberal Party and Whig politician.

Family

Born in 1797, Gurdon was the son of Theophilus Thornhagh Gurdon and Anne Mellish. He married Henrietta Susannah Ridley-Colborne — daughter of Nicholas Ridley-Colborne and Charlotte Steele — in 1828, and they had four children:[2]

Career

Gurdon was elected a Whig MP for West Norfolk at the 1857 general election[3] and was re-elected as a Liberal in the next general election in 1859. Later, at the 1865 general election, he was defeated.[4]

Gurdon was also a Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk, Justice of the Peace for Norfolk, and, in 1855, High Sheriff of Norfolk.[2]

References

  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 2)
  2. ^ a b "Brampton Gurdon". The Peerage. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  3. ^ "The Old and the New Parliament". The Examiner. 25 April 1857. p. 8. Retrieved 11 March 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for West Norfolk
1857–1865
With: George Bentinck 		Succeeded by


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