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Brampton Gurdon (lecturer)
Brampton Gurdon (c.1672 in Letton, Norfolk – 20 November 1741) was an English clergyman and academic, Boyle lecturer in 1721.
==Life==
Gurdon was the younger son of Brampton Gurdon, of Letton, Norfolk (who was nephew of John Gurdon), by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Thornhagh, of Fenton, Nottinghamshire.〔Chester, ''London Marriage Licenses'', ed. Joseph Foster, col. 598; Burke, ''Landed Gentry'', 7th ed., i. 799〕 His older brother was Thornhagh Gurdon (1663 – November 1733), the English antiquarian. Gurdon was admitted at the age of 15 to Caius College, Cambridge, in 1687, and graduated B.A. in 1691 and M.A. in 1695. By 1696 he had been elected fellow of his college. His Boyle lectures were published as ''The Pretended Difficulties in Natural or Reveal'd Religion no Excuse for Infidelity. Sixteen Sermons preach'd in the Church of St. Mary le Bow, London, in ... 1721 and 1722'', 8vo, London, 1723.〔Reprinted in the third volume of S. Letsome and I. Nicholl's ''Religion'', fol. 1739. An abridgment by G. Burnet, vicar of Coggeshall, was issued in 1737, 8vo.〕 Gurdon was a favourite of Lord Chancellor Macclesfield, who made him his chaplain and gave him the rectory of Stapleford Abbots, Essex, 17 March 1719 – 1720, a living he resigned 3 November 1724.〔Philip Morant, ''Essex'', i. 178〕 On 16 March 1726-7 he was collated to the archdeaconry of Sudbury;〔John Le Neve, ''Fasti'', ed. Thomas Duffus Hardy, ii. 493〕 became rector of Denham, Buckinghamshire, 17 October 1730;〔George Lipscomb, ''Buckinghamshire'', iv. 448〕 and rector of St. Edmund the King, Lombard Street, about 1732,〔James Peller Malcolm, ''Londinium Redivivum'', iii.
*468〕 preferments which he held until his death.
He died unmarried in the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, 20 November 1741.〔''Gentleman's Magazine'', 1741. p. 609; Administration Act Book, P.C.C., Dec. 1741〕
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