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.
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]
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]