John Bramston (12 May 1802 – 13 November 1889) was

Dean of Winchester The Dean of Winchester is the head of the Chapter of Winchester Cathedral in the city of Winchester, England, in the Diocese of Winchester. Appointment is by the Crown. The first incumbent was the last Prior, William Kingsmill, Catherine Ogl ...

(1872–1883). He was the younger son of Thomas Gardiner Bramston, who owned Skreens estate in

Roxwell Roxwell is a village and civil parish in the Chelmsford district of Essex, England. The village is approximately west from the centre of the county town of Chelmsford, and to the south of the A1060 road, on which are the parish hamlets of Boyto ...

, Essex and was a member of

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for

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, and the younger brother of

Thomas William Bramston 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 esta ...

, who inherited Skreens and was an MP for South Essex. He was also a descendant of his namesakes Sir John Bramston, the elder and the latter's son Sir

John Bramston, the younger Sir John Bramston, the younger (September 1611 – 4 February 1700), was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1679. The son of Sir John Bramston, the elder and his first wife Bridget Moundeford, daughter o ...

. He went to Oriel College, Oxford and graduated with a B.A. in 1823. He became vicar of

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in 1840. He became

in October 1872 and resigned the post in 1883. He married the diarist Clarissa Sandford Trant (daughter of the soldier Nicholas Trant) in 1832; she died in 1844, leaving three children: Clara Isabella Sandford Bramston (b. 1833), Mary Eliza Bramston (b. 1841), and Rev. John Trant Bramston (b. 1843). In 1846, he married Anna, daughter of Osgood Hanbury, of Holfield Grange, Essex. His daughter by his second marriage, Anna, founded Winchester High School, now known as St Swithun's School. Granddaughter Clara Georgina Luard published a selection from Clarissa Trant's twenty-eight volume journal in 1925.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bramston, John Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford 1802 births 1889 deaths Deans of Winchester People from the City of Chelmsford Presidents of the Oxford Union