John Bramston (priest)

The Very Reverend John Bramston (12 May 1802 – 13 November 1889)[1] was Dean of Winchester (1872–1883).

For other people named John Bramston, see John Bramston (disambiguation).

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.[1] He was also a descendant of his namesakes Sir John Bramston, the elder and the latter's son Sir John Bramston, the younger.[2]

He went to Oriel College, Oxford and graduated with a B.A. in 1823. He became vicar of Great Baddow, Essex in 1831 and vicar of Witham in 1840. He became Dean of Winchester in October 1872 and resigned the post in 1883.[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. 1833), Mary Eliza Bramston (b. 1841), and Rev. John Trant Bramston (b. 1843).[5] In 1846, he married Anna, daughter of Osgood Hanbury, of Holfield Grange, Essex.[1] His daughter by his second marriage, Anna,[1] founded Winchester High School, now known as St Swithun's School.[6] Granddaughter Clara Georgina Luard[1] published a selection from Clarissa Trant's twenty-eight volume journal in 1925.[5][7]

References
  1. The Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval (1911). The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Mortimer-Percy Volume. London. p. 531.
  2. The Autobiography of Sir John Bramston, K.B., of Skreens, in the Hundred of Chelmsford; now first printed from the original MS. in the possession of his lineal descendant Thomas William Bramston, Esq. London: The Camden Society. 1845. Preface, pp. vi–viii, xix.
  3.  Cooper, Thompson (1884). "Bramston, John" . Men of the Time  (eleventh ed.). London: George Routledge & Sons. p. 162.
  4. "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/53045.
  5. Lloyd, E. M. (2004). "Trant, Nicholas (1769–1839), army officer | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27664.
  6. St Swithun's School - History
  7. The journal of Clarissa Trant, 1800-1832. 1925.
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Thomas Garnier		 Dean of Winchester
1872 – 1883		 Succeeded by
George William Kitchin
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