John Bristow
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John Bristow, of Mark Lane, London, and Quidenham, Norfolk, was an English merchant, financier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1768.
Quidenham Hall was acquired by Bristow some time after 1740
John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire, was a British politician who represented St Ives and Norfolk in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1715 to 1728, when he was raised to the peerage as
John Bristow
…1733. In 1733, he married Anne Judith Foisin, the daughter of Paul Foisin, an East India merchant in Paris. Bristow was returned by his brother-in-law, John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire, as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bere Alston at the 1734 British general election. He voted consistently with the Government. In 1739, on the outbreak…
Portrait by John Theodore Heins, 1743
Blickling Hall