John Bramston (12 May 1802 – 13 November 1889)[1] was Dean of Winchester (1872–1883).
He was the younger son of Thomas Gardiner Bramston, who owned Skreens estate in Roxwell, Essex and was a member of Parliament for Essex, and the younger brother of Thomas William Bramston, who inherited Skreens and was an MP for South Essex.
[3] He married the diarist Clarissa Sandford Trant (daughter of the soldier Nicholas Trant) in 1832;[4] she died in 1844, leaving three children: Clara Isabella Sandford Bramston (b.
[5] In 1846, he married Anna, daughter of Osgood Hanbury, of Holfield Grange, Essex.
[6] Granddaughter Clara Georgina Luard[1] published a selection from Clarissa Trant's twenty-eight volume journal in 1925.