Musgrave Brisco (1791 – 9 May 1854)
was a British
Conservative Party
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Political parties called The Conservative P ...
politician.
A former
mayor
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of
Hastings
Hastings () is a large seaside town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England,
east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west ...
.
In the 1830s, he assisted his brother, Wastel Brisco, with the development of Bohemia House in
Summerfields, St Leonards-on-Sea
Summerfields was a boys' preparatory school in the St Leonards-on-Sea area of Hastings, East Sussex.
It occupied the buildings previously known as Bohemia House.
Bohemia House was built in 1818, by the architect John (Yorky) Smith, and occup ...
, and was appointed
High Sheriff of Sussex for 1843. He was then elected as a
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for
Hastings
Hastings () is a large seaside town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England,
east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west ...
at a by-election in 1844,
and held the seat until he
resigned from Parliament through appointment as
Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds
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on 5 May 1854.
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1791 births
1854 deaths
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
High Sheriffs of Sussex
UK MPs 1841–1847
UK MPs 1847–1852
UK MPs 1852–1857
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