James Bramston (c. 1694–1743) was an English poet who specialised in satire and parody. He was also apluralist cleric of theChurch of England.

The son of Col. Francis Bramston, a guards officer, he was born at Skreens, nearChelmsford,Essex, and educated atWestminster School andChrist Church, Oxford.^[1]Sir John Bramston (1577–1654), Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, was his great-grandfather.^[2]

Bramston took holy orders in theAnglican church and was appointed Chaplain to the 2ndDragoon Guards in 1721. By 1724 he was married, and in that year became Rector ofLurgashall in 1724, then Vicar of neighbouringHarting,West Sussex in 1725. He was reinstated at Lurgashall in 1739 and named Vicar ofWesthampnett, nearChichester on the same day. He held these and some other preferments as apluralist until his death.^[2]

Bramston's legacy to Lurgashall Church partly paid for rebuilding thechancel.^[1] He died on 22 December 1743 and was buried atChalton, Hampshire. He was survived by his wife, Elizabeth.^[2]

Bramston's verses includeThe Art of Politics (1729), in imitation ofHorace'sArs Poetica, ("What's not destroy'd by Time's devouring Hand? Where's Troy, and where's the Maypole in the Strand?")^[3] andThe Man of Taste (1733), in imitation ofAlexander Pope ("Sur loins and rumps of beef offend my eyes,/Pleas'd with frogs fricasseed and coxcomb pies.")^[4] HisIgnorami lamentatio super legis communis translationem ex Latino in Anglicum (1736), dedicated by "Ambi-dexter Ignoramus" to "Dulmannum", satirizes lawyers. It is written inDog Latinhexameters.^[2] He also parodiedJohn Philips's "The Splendid Shilling" in "The Crooked Sixpence".^[1]

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• Hutchinson, John (1902)."Bramston, James" .A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices (1 ed.). Canterbury: the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. p. 28.

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