Brampton Gurdon (Norfolk MP)

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Henrietta Susannah Ridley-Colborne
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(m. 1828)​
Brampton Gurdon
Member of Parliament
for West Norfolk
In office
30 March 1857 –24 July 1865
Servingwith George Bentinck
ChildrenFour, including Robert and William
Parent(s)Theophilus Thornhagh Gurdon
Anne Mellish

John Brampton Gurdon, known as Brampton Gurdon, (25 September 1797 – 28 April 1881) [1] was a British Liberal Party and Whig politician.

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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: [2]

Career

Gurdon was elected a Whig MP for West Norfolk at the 1857 general election [3] and was re-elected as a Liberal in the next general election in 1859. Later, at the 1865 general election, he was defeated. [4]

Gurdon was also a Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk, Justice of the Peace for Norfolk, and, in 1855, High Sheriff of Norfolk. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 2)
  2. 1 2 "Brampton Gurdon". The Peerage. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  3. ↑ "The Old and the New Parliament" . The Examiner . 25 April 1857. p. 8. Retrieved 11 March 2018– via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ↑ Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN   978-1-349-02349-3.
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Preceded by Member of Parliament for West Norfolk
1857–1865
With: George Bentinck 		Succeeded by


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