Brampton Gurdon (Norfolk MP) explained

Brampton Gurdon
Office:Member of Parliament
for West Norfolk
Term Start:30 March 1857
Term End:24 July 1865
Alongside:Gerge Bentinck
Predecessor:William Bagge
Gerge Bentinck
Successor:William Bagge
Thomas de Grey
Birth Name:John Brampton Gurdon
Birth Date:25 September 1797
Nationality:British
Party:Liberal
Otherparty:Whig (until 1859)
Parents:Theophilus Thornhagh Gurdon
Anne Mellish
Children:Four, including Robert and William

John Brampton Gurdon, known as Brampton Gurdon, (25 September 1797 – 28 April 1881) 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:[1]

Career

Gurdon was elected a Whig MP for West Norfolk at the 1857 general election[2] and was re-elected as a Liberal in the next general election in 1859. Later, at the 1865 general election, he was defeated.[3]

Gurdon was also a Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk, Justice of the Peace for Norfolk, and, in 1855, High Sheriff of Norfolk.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Brampton Gurdon. The Peerage. 11 March 2018.
  2. News: The Old and the New Parliament. 11 March 2018. The Examiner. 25 April 1857. 8. British Newspaper Archive. subscription .
  3. Book: Craig. F. W. S.. F. W. S. Craig. British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885. 1977. Macmillan Press. London. 978-1-349-02349-3. 1st. e-book.