Thomas Bramston (1658–1737)

Thomas Bramston (1658–1737), of Waterhouse, Writtle, Essex, was a British chancery clerk and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1712 to 1727.

[1] Bramston was returned as Tory Member of Parliament for Maldon on the family interest at a by-election on 28 January 1712.

He voted for the French commerce bill on 18 June 1713, and was returned unopposed at the 1713 British general election.

A trust fund was set up, to be administered partly by Thomas Bramston of Skreens, for his daughters and younger son.

It took two years to obtain probate, because in spite of Bramston's role in the chancery office, his will was full of confusing obliterations and interspersed text