George Bramston

George Bramston was a lawyer^[1] and academic^[2] in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.^[3]

Bramston was born in Great Baddow and educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating LL.B in 1674 and LL.D in 1682. He was Fellow of Trinity-hall from 1692 to 1696, and its Master from 1703 until his death.^[4] He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1703 to 1704.^[5]

He died on 3 June 1710.

References

1. "The Political State of Great Britain, Volume 1" p8:London, J. Baker, 1711
2. Landed Families of Britain & Ireland
3. "Annals of Cambridge" Cooper, C.H. V4 p169: Cambridge; Metclaf; 1852
4. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209-1752 Vol. i. Abbas – Cutts, 1922) p204
5. University of Cambridge web-site