Thomas William Bramston Explained

T.W. (Thomas William) Bramston (30 October 1796 – 21 May 1871) was Conservative and Protectionist Member for South Essex, 1835–1865. He was a trustee of the Royal Agricultural Society of England and a noted cattle breeder at the family estate, Skreens (established by Lord Chief Justice Sir John Bramston in 1635), near Roxwell, Essex. In 1830 he married Elizabeth Harvey, daughter of Admiral Sir Eliab Harvey Nugent, commander of HMS Temeraire at the Battle of Trafalgar.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Their second son was Sir John Bramston, a Queensland politician who was a minister in the Herbert government, Attorney-General in the Palmer Ministry, later Attorney-General in Hong Kong and Assistant Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies.^[4]

Notes and References

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2. Book: The Marquis of Ruvigny and Ranieva. Melville Henry Massue

   . Melville Henry Massue . The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal

   The Mortimer-Percy Volume

   . London . T.C. & E. C. Jack. 1911 . 530 . 9780788418723 .

3. Book: A Member of the Middle Temple . The assembled Commons; or, Parliamentary biographer, with an abstract of the law of election . Bramston (South Essex) . London . Scott, Webster, and Geary . 1838 . 37 . 14 May 2014.
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