Constituency Dates
Winchelsea 30 Jan. 1738
New Shoreham 1754
Family and Education
b. 1712, 1st s. of Robert Bristow, M.P., of Micheldever by Sarah, da. of Sir John Warde of Squerryes, Kent, a Portugal merchant, ld. mayor of London 1719-20; nephew of John Bristow. m. (1) 7 June 1746, Susannah, da. and h. of John Phillipson, 1da.; (2) Mary, da. of Rev. Richard Harding, vicar of Micheldever, 1s. 3da. suc. fa. 3 Nov. 1737.
Offices Held

Clerk of Board of Green Cloth 1738 – c.40.

Address
Main residence: Micheldever, Hants.
biography text

In 1754 James West’s paper on Pelham’s election engagements, sent to Newcastle 13 Mar.,1Add. 32995, f. 71. notes against Shoreham: ‘Mr. Bristow to be brought in by Mr. Phillipson, receiving £1000, the remainder of the expense, which it is thought will amount to £1000, is to be furnished (as Mr. Phillipson proposed to have it done) amongst themselves or by Mr. Bristow.’ £1000 was paid to Phillipson for Bristow’s election from secret service funds on 2 May 1754.2Namier, Structure, 340.

On 26 July 1760 Bristow is included in Newcastle’s list of ‘Persons to be brought into Parliament at the next election’; by 17 Feb. 1761 he is relegated to a concluding note on those for whom places were ‘still wanted’; and by 1 Mar. he has disappeared from the list of ‘Persons to be brought into Parliament’.3Add. 32999, f. 19; Add. 32919, ff. 58, 344."Bristow did not stand again, and died 9 Dec. 1776.

Author
L.B.N.
Volume
Commons 1754-1790
Notes
  • 1. Add. 32995, f. 71.
  • 2. Namier, Structure, 340.
  • 3. Add. 32999, f. 19; Add. 32919, ff. 58, 344."