Thornhagh Gurdon

comitiis regiis[1] in 1682,[2] and in the reign of Queen Anne was appointed receiver-general of Norfolk.

Together with the Rights of Lords of Manors in Common Pastures, and the Growth of the Privileges the Tenants Now Enjoy There (2 vols., octavo, 1731).

[3] Gurdon was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in March 1718.

Gurdon died in November 1733 aged 70, and was buried in the church of Cranworth with Letton, Norfolk.

By his wife Elizabeth, one of the daughters and coheirs of Sir William Cooke, Baronet of Brome, Suffolk, he had two sons, Brampton, who died before him, and Thornhagh; and three daughters, Jane, Elizabeth, and Letitia.