Brampton Gurdon (lecturer)
Life
Life
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Gurdon was the younger son of Brampton Gurdon, of [Letton, Norfolk](/wiki/Letton%2C_Norfolk "Letton, Norfolk") (who was nephew of John Gurdon), by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Thornhagh, of [Fenton, Nottinghamshire](/wiki/Fenton%2C_Nottinghamshire "Fenton, Nottinghamshire").Chester, *London Marriage Licenses*, ed. [Joseph Foster](/wiki/Joseph_Foster_%28genealogist%29 "Joseph Foster (genealogist)"), col. 598; Burke, *[Landed Gentry](/wiki/Burke%27s_Landed_Gentry "Burke's Landed Gentry")*, 7th ed., i. 799 His older brother was [Thornhagh Gurdon](/wiki/Thornhagh_Gurdon "Thornhagh Gurdon") (1663 – November 1733\), the English [antiquarian](/wiki/Antiquarian "Antiquarian"). Gurdon was admitted at the age of 15 to [Caius College, Cambridge](/wiki/Caius_College%2C_Cambridge "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](/wiki/Coggeshall "Coggeshall"), was issued in 1737, 8vo. Gurdon was a favourite of [Lord Chancellor Macclesfield](/wiki/Lord_Chancellor_Macclesfield "Lord Chancellor Macclesfield"), who made him his chaplain and gave him the rectory of [Stapleford Abbotts](/wiki/Stapleford_Abbotts "Stapleford Abbotts"), Essex, 17 March 1719 – 1720, a living he resigned 3 November 1724\.[Philip Morant](/wiki/Philip_Morant "Philip Morant"), *Essex*, i. 178 On 16 March 1726–7 he was collated to the archdeaconry of [Sudbury](/wiki/Sudbury%2C_Suffolk "Sudbury, Suffolk");[John Le Neve](/wiki/John_Le_Neve "John Le Neve"), *Fasti*, ed. [Thomas Duffus Hardy](/wiki/Thomas_Duffus_Hardy "Thomas Duffus Hardy"), ii. 493 became rector of [Denham, Buckinghamshire](/wiki/Denham%2C_Buckinghamshire "Denham, Buckinghamshire"), 17 October 1730;[George Lipscomb](/wiki/George_Lipscomb "George Lipscomb"), *Buckinghamshire*, iv. 448 and rector of St. Edmund the King, Lombard Street, about 1732,[James Peller Malcolm](/wiki/James_Peller_Malcolm "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](/wiki/St._Giles-in-the-Fields "St. Giles-in-the-Fields"), 20 November 1741\.*[Gentleman's Magazine](/wiki/Gentleman%27s_Magazine "Gentleman's Magazine")*, 1741\. p. 609; Administration Act Book, P.C.C., Dec. 1741


To what archdeaconry was Gurdon collated in 1726-7?