Robert Britiffe (abt. 1664 - 1749)

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Biography

Robert Britiffe was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Robert Britiffe was born in about 1663, the eldest son of Edmund Britiffe of Baconsthorpe and Mary, daughter of Robert Longe of Spixworth, Norfolk. He was educated at Baconsthorpe, Holt and Norwich schools, and Caius College, University of Cambridge, where he graduated on 24 May 1680, aged 16

He married three times:

• In 1691, Judith daughter of Henry Edgar of Eye, Suffolk; Judith died in 1705 leaving 1 daughter;^[1]
• Elizabeth daughter of Sir William Rant of Thorpe Market, Norfolk; Elizabeth died in 1712, leaving one daughter;
• Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Strotton of Little Melton, Norfolk and widow of Dr. Thomas Tanner, Bishop of St Asaph; they left no children.

He was Recorder of Lynn 1704-30 and of Norwich 1737-43. He acted as legal adviser to the Townshend and Walpole families, handling Walpole’s purchases of land in 1720. He became MP for Norwich as a Whig in 1715, he followed his patrons into opposition from 1717 to 1720, subsequently voting with the Government till he retired in favour of ‘old’ Horace Walpole in 1734.

He died 22 September 1749, leaving his property to his two daughters, one of whom married Sir John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire, and the other, Sir William Morden Harbord, 1st Bt.

Sources

1. ↑ See "Britiffe-Edgar marriage settlement 1691" within the "Lothian (Blickling) Collection" at Norfolk Record Office.

• BRITIFFE, Robert (?1663-1749), of Baconsthorpe, Norf. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970