Sir John Briscoe, 1st Baronet explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: BRISCOE, Sir John James. December 2007. Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. 26 September 2011.
  2. Web site: Leigh Rayment – Baronetage . https://web.archive.org/web/20080501224809/http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsB5.htm . 1 May 2008 . usurped . 11 December 2009 .
  3. News: Obituary: Sir John James Briscoe. 2 May 1919. The Times. 14.
  4. Book: Dod, Charles R. . Charles Dod

    . Charles Dod . Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland . 1915 . Dod's Peerage Ltd. . London . 105 .

  5. News: The General Election. The Polls. 3 July 1886. The Times. 7.
  6. Book: Who is Who 1914 . Adam & Charles Black Ltd. . London . 1914 . 249–250 .
  7. News: The County Councils. 1 February 1889. The Times. 10.
  8. News: Birthday Honours. Seven Peerages. 24 June 1910. The Times. 9.
  9. Web site: ThePeerage – Sir John James Briscoe, 1st Bt . 26 January 2007 .