Sir John James Briscoe, 1st Baronet, JP, DL (6 December 1836 – 1 May 1919[1] [2]) was a British baronet.[3]
Briscoe was the eldest son of John Briscoe and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Leigh Burrowes.[4] He was appointed as a deputy lieutenant and justice of the peace for the county.[4]
Briscoe was a member of the Liberal Party, and unsuccessfully contested the seat of King's Lynn at the 1886 general election.[5]
Briscoe was appointed High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire for the year 1888.[6]
When Cambridgeshire County Council was created in 1889, Briscoe was elected to the council as an alderman at their first meeting.[7]
He was created a baronet, of Bourn Hall, in the Parish of Bourn, in the County of Cambridge on 12 July 1910.[8]
Briscoe married Ellen Charlton, only daughter of Alfred Charlton on 11 June 1863 and had by her seven children, three daughters and four sons.[6] His wife died in 1910 and Briscoe survived her until 1919. He was succeeded in the baronetcy successively by his first son Alfred and then his second son John.[9]
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