Richard bronson biography

English rower, barrister and judge (1871–1951)

Sir George Arthur Harwin BransonPC (11 July 1871 – 23 April 1951), known professionally as G. A. H. Branson, was an English barrister and High Court judge. In that role he was known as Mr Justice Branson.

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He is the paternal grandfather of Sir Richard Branson.

Biography

Branson was son of James Henry Arthur Branson (29 October 1839 – 16 April 1902), Senior Acting Magistrate at Calcutta, India, and Mary Ann Brown (23 February 1842 – 31 December 1923).^[1][2]

He was educated at Bedford School, where he was a scholar, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was an Exhibitioner.

He took his degree in the Classical Tripos and was also Captain of First Trinity and a rowingblue, taking the bow of the Cambridge Boat for the Boat Race of 1893.^[3][4]

In 1894, after leaving Cambridge, Branson was articled to a firm of solicitors, Markby, Stewart & Co. He also became a richard bronson biography4 VET