Brampton Gurdon (other)
Brampton Gurdon may refer to: * Brampton Gurdon (of Assington and Letton) (died 1649), Member of Parliament for Sudbury (1621) and High Sheriff of Suffolk * Brampton Gurdon (of Letton) (1606–1669), his son, Member of Parliament for Sudbury (1645–1653) and a cavalry colonel in the English Civil War * Brampton Gurdon (lecturer) (died 1741), Archdeacon of Sudbury, fellow of Caius College, Cambridge and Boyle lecturer * Brampton Gurdon (Norfolk MP) (1797–1881), British politician * William Brampton Gurdon Sir William Brampton Gurdon (5 September 1840 – 31 May 1910)Obituary
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Brampton Gurdon (of Assington And Letton)
Brampton Gurdon (died 1648) was an English country gentleman and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons from 1621 to 1622. Gurdon was the son of John Gurdon (died 1623), John Gurdon of Assington, Suffolk and his wife Amy Brampton, daughter of William Brampton of Letton, Norfolk. His father was MP for Sudbury (UK Parliament constituency), Sudbury and High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1585. In 1621, Gurdon was elected Member of Parliament for Sudbury (UK Parliament constituency), Sudbury. He became High Sheriff of Suffolk, Sheriff of Suffolk in 1629. Gurdon married twice. His first wife was Elizabeth Barrett, daughter of Edward Barrett of Bellhouse, Essex, and they had sons John Gurdon (died 1679), John and Robert and a daughter Amy who married Sir Henry Mildmay of Graces. He married secondly Muriel Sedley, daughter of Sir Martyn Sedley of Morley Norfolk and they had a son Brampton Gurdon (of Letton), Brampton and daughters Muriel who married Richard Sa ...
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Brampton Gurdon (of Letton)
Brampton Gurdon (1606 – 3 November 1669), of Letton in Norfolk, was an English Member of Parliament (MP), lawyer and a colonel of cavalry during the English Civil War. Gurdon was the son of Brampton Gurdon (of Assington and Letton), Brampton Gurdon (died 1650), an MP and High Sheriff of Suffolk, by his second marriage. His father left him the Letton estate while passing the family's other estate (at Assington in Suffolk) to Brampton's older half-brother, John Gurdon (died 1679), John. Brampton qualified as a barrister, and in 1645 was elected a member of the Long Parliament, filling a vacancy at Sudbury (UK Parliament constituency), Sudbury, though he does not seem to have been an active member. During the Civil War he was Colonel (United Kingdom), Colonel of a regiment of Suffolk Trained Band Horse and served as a member of the court martial which condemned Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle (Royalist), George Lisle to death after the Siege of Colchester. He married Mar ...
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Brampton Gurdon (lecturer)
Brampton Gurdon (c. 1672 in Letton, Norfolk – 20 November 1741) was an English clergyman and academic, Boyle lecturer in 1721. Life Gurdon was the younger son of Brampton Gurdon, of Letton, Norfolk (who was nephew of John Gurdon), by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Thornhagh, of Fenton, Nottinghamshire. His older brother was Thornhagh Gurdon (1663 – November 1733), the English antiquarian. Gurdon was admitted at the age of 15 to Caius College, Cambridge, in 1687, and graduated B.A. in 1691 and M.A. in 1695. By 1696 he had been elected fellow of his college. His Boyle lectures were published as ''The Pretended Difficulties in Natural or Reveal'd Religion no Excuse for Infidelity. Sixteen Sermons preach'd in the Church of St. Mary le Bow, London, in ... 1721 and 1722'', 8vo, London, 1723. Gurdon was a favourite of Lord Chancellor Macclesfield, who made him his chaplain and gave him the rectory of Stapleford Abbotts, Essex, 17 March 1719 – 1720, a living he resig ...
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Brampton Gurdon (Norfolk MP)
John Brampton Gurdon, known as Brampton Gurdon, (25 September 1797 – 28 April 1881) was a British Liberal Party and Whig politician. 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: * Charlotte Gurdon (died 1868) * Amy Louisa Gurdon (died 1864) * Robert Thornhagh Gurdon (1829–1902) * William Brampton Gurdon (1840–1910) Career Gurdon was elected a Whig MP for West Norfolk at the 1857 general election and was re-elected as a Liberal in the next general election in 1859. Later, at the 1865 general election, he was defeated. Gurdon was also a Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk, Justice of the Peace for Norfolk, and, in 1855, High Sheriff of Norfolk The high sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown and is appointed annually (in March) by the Crown. The High Sheriff of Norfolk w ...
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