Sir John Briscoe, 1st Baronet

Sir John James Briscoe, 1st Baronet JP, DL (6 December 1836 – 1 May 1919)[1][2] was a British baronet.[3]

Briscoe was the eldest son of John Briscoe and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Leigh Burrowes.[4] He was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for the county.[4]

Briscoe was a member of the Liberal Party, and unsuccessfully contested the seat of King's Lynn at the 1886 general election.[3] [5]

Briscoe was appointed High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire for the year 1888.[3][6]

When Cambridgeshire County Council was created in 1889, Briscoe was elected to the council as an alderman at their first meeting.[7] [3]

He was created a Baronet, of Bourn Hall, in the Parish of Bourn, in the County of Cambridge on 12 July 1910.[8] [3] [9]

Briscoe married Ellen Charlton, only daughter of Alfred Charlton on 11 June 1863 and had by her seven children, three daughters and four sons.[6] His wife died in 1910 and Briscoe survived her until 1919.[10] He was succeeded in the baronetcy successively by his first son Alfred and then his second son John.[10]

References

  1. ^ "BRISCOE, Sir John James". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. December 2007. http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U193927. Retrieved 26 September 2011. 
  2. ^ "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsB5.htm. Retrieved 11 December 2009. 
  3. ^ a b c d e "Obituary: Sir John James Briscoe". The Times: p. 14. 2 May 1919. 
  4. ^ a b Dod, Charles R. (1915). Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Dod's Peerage Ltd.. pp. 105. 
  5. ^ "The General Election. The Polls". The Times: p. 7. 3 July 1886. 
  6. ^ a b Who is Who 1914. London: Adam & Charles Black Ltd.. 1914. pp. 249–250. 
  7. ^ "The County Councils". The Times: p. 10. 1 February 1889. 
  8. ^ "Birthday Honours. Seven Peerages". The Times: p. 9. 24 June 1910. 
  9. ^ London Gazette: no. 28400. p. 5392. 26 July 1910. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
  10. ^ a b "ThePeerage - Sir John James Briscoe, 1st Bt". http://www.thepeerage.com/p17835.htm#i178348. Retrieved 26 January 2007. 
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
 (of Bourn)
1910 – 1919		 Succeeded by
Alfred Leigh Briscoe