The son of Col. Francis Bramston, a guards officer, he was born at Skreens, near Chelmsford, Essex, and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford.
[2] Bramston took holy orders in the Anglican church and was appointed Chaplain to the 2nd Dragoon Guards in 1721.
[2] Bramston's verses include The Art of Politics (1729), in imitation of Horace's Ars Poetica, ("What's not destroy'd by Time's devouring Hand?
")[3] and The Man of Taste (1733), in imitation of Alexander Pope ("Sur loins and rumps of beef offend my eyes,/Pleas'd with frogs fricasseed and coxcomb pies.
")[4] His Ignorami lamentatio super legis communis translationem ex Latino in Anglicum (1736), dedicated by "Ambi-dexter Ignoramus" to "Dulmannum", satirizes lawyers.