Constituency Dates
Winchelsea 30 Jan. 1738 – 1741
New Shoreham 1747 – 1761
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."