Sir John Briscoe, 1st Baronet

Sir John James Briscoe, 1st Baronet, JP, DL (6 December 1836 – 1 May 1919^[1][2]) was a British baronet.^[3]

Briscoe was the eldest son of John Briscoe and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Leigh Burrowes.^[4] He was appointed as a deputy lieutenant and justice of the peace for the county.^[4]

Briscoe was a member of the Liberal Party, and unsuccessfully contested the seat of King's Lynn at the 1886 general election.^[3][5]

Briscoe was appointed High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire for the year 1888.^[3][6]

When Cambridgeshire County Council was created in 1889, Briscoe was elected to the council as an alderman at their first meeting.^[3][7]

He was created a baronet, of Bourn Hall, in the Parish of Bourn, in the County of Cambridge on 12 July 1910.^[3][8][9]

Briscoe married Ellen Charlton, only daughter of Alfred Charlton on 11 June 1863 and had by her seven children, three daughters and four sons.^[6] His wife died in 1910 and Briscoe survived her until 1919.^[10] He was succeeded in the baronetcy successively by his first son Alfred and then his second son John.^[10]