About Browse Trist
Born 1698. Browse Trist was a politician.
Browse Trist (1698?–1777), of Bowden, near Totnes, Devon, was an English politician.
He was born the son of Nicholas Trist of Bowden and educated at Wadham College, Oxford.
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of Great Britain for Totnes 1754 - March 1763.
In 1734 he married Agnes, daughter of Thomas Hore of Nymph, Devon, with whom he went on to have 6 sons and 3 daughters. The lived at Bowden House.
Family in America Browse Trist's son Hore Browse Trist emigrated to the United States, where he befriended Thomas Jefferson, obtained from him a government appointment, and settled in Mississippi.
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