Brampton Gurdon of Letton

For other people named Brampton Gurdon, see Brampton Gurdon (disambiguation).

Brampton Gurdon
Member of the English Parliament
for Sudbury
In office
Long Parliament
Personal details
Born1606
Died3 November 1669
SpouseMary Polstead
Parent
Occupationbarrister
Military service
Rankcolonel
Battles/warsEnglish Civil War
St Mary's church, Cranworth – wall monument Memorial to Brampton Gurdon

Brampton Gurdon (1606 – 3 November 1669), of Letton in Norfolk, was an English Member of Parliament (MP), lawyer and a colonel of cavalry during the English Civil War.

Gurdon was the son of Brampton Gurdon (died c. 1650), an MP and High Sheriff of Suffolk, by his second marriage. His father left him the Letton estate while passing the family's other estate (at Assington in Suffolk) to Brampton's older half-brother, John. Brampton qualified as a barrister, and in 1645 was elected a member of the Long Parliament, filling a vacancy at Sudbury, though he does not seem to have been an active member. During the Civil War he was Colonel of a regiment of Suffolk Trained Band Horse and served as a member of the court martial which condemned Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle to death after the Siege of Colchester. In 1651 and 1659 he commanded a Troop of Norfolk Trained Band Horse.[1][2]

He married Mary Polstead, and died 3 November 1669.[3] He was succeeded by his son, also called Brampton Gurdon (died 1691).

References

  1. ^ Suffolk Trained Bands at The BCW Project (archived at the Wayback Machine)
  2. ^ Jeremy Ive, 'The Local Dimensions of Defence: the Standing Army and Militia in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, 1649–1660', Cambridge University PhD Thesis, 1987.
  3. ^ Edmund Farrer, The Church Heraldry of Norfolk (Norwich: Agas H Goose & Co, 1887), p. 301

Sources

  • John Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland (London: Henry Colburn, 1835)
  • D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
Parliament of England
Preceded by
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 Member of Parliament for Sudbury
1645–1648
With: Simonds d'Ewes (until Pride's Purge) 		Succeeded by
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