John Brampton Gurdon, known as Brampton Gurdon, (25 September 1797 – 28 April 1881)[1] was a British Liberal Party and Whig politician.
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:[2] Gurdon was elected a Whig MP for West Norfolk at the 1857 general election[3] and was re-elected as a Liberal in the next general election in 1859.
Later, at the 1865 general election, he was defeated.
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