A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Bramston, James

by John Hutchinson

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Admitted 20 May, 1718.

Son and heir of Francis Bramston, of Chancery Lane, and grandson of Sir Moundeford Bramston, Master in Chancery, and great-grandson of Sir John Bramston (q.v.), of the Middle Temple. He was educated at Westminster and Oxford, where he took his first degree in 1717. Taking Holy Orders, he became Vicar of Lurgashall, Sussex, and subsequently of Harting in the same county. There he devoted himself to poetry, and in 1729 published an imitation of Horace's Ars Poetica, entitled The Art of Politicks, and in 1733 another poem, called The Man of Taste, productions of considerable merit He died 16 March, 1744, leaving behind him a great reputation as a humorist, satirist, and colloquial wit.