George Bramston was a lawyer and academic in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Bramston was born in
Great Baddow
Great Baddow is an urban village and civil parish in the Chelmsford borough of Essex, England. It is close to the city of Chelmsford, and, with a population of over 13,000,[Trinity Hall, Cambridge
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, graduating
LL.B
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in 1674 and
LL.D
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in 1682. He was Fellow of Trinity-hall from 1692 to 1696, and
its Master
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from 1703 until his death. He was
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1703 to 1704.
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He died on 3 June 1710.
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Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
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People from Essex
1710 deaths
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