Brampton Gurdon | |
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| Member of the English Parliament for Sudbury | |
| In office Long Parliament | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1606 |
| Died | 3 November 1669 |
| Spouse | Mary Polstead |
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| Occupation | barrister |
| Military service | |
| Rank | colonel |
| Battles/wars | English Civil War |
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 (died c. 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. Brampton qualified as a barrister, and in 1645 was elected a member of the Long Parliament, filling a vacancy at Sudbury, though he does not seem to have been an active member. During the Civil War he was 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 to death after the Siege of Colchester. In 1651 and 1659 he commanded a Troop of Norfolk Trained Band Horse.[1][2]
He married Mary Polstead, and died 3 November 1669.[3] He was succeeded by his son, also called Brampton Gurdon (died 1691).
- ^ Suffolk Trained Bands at The BCW Project (archived at the Wayback Machine)
- ^ Jeremy Ive, 'The Local Dimensions of Defence: the Standing Army and Militia in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, 1649–1660', Cambridge University PhD Thesis, 1987.
- ^ Edmund Farrer, The Church Heraldry of Norfolk (Norwich: Agas H Goose & Co, 1887), p. 301