Brampton Gurdon (Norfolk MP)
John Brampton Gurdon, known as Brampton Gurdon, 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:
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.
