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Bath Weekly Chronicle and Herald Saturday 6 Jan 1940
Page 6 Column 4
SOMERSET EX-M.P. DEAD
MR. ROBERT BRUFORD'S LIFE OF PUBLIC SERVICE
A prominent figure in the public and agricultural life of Somerset has passed away in the person of Mr. Robert BRUFORD, who was Conservative M.P. For Wells (Somerset) in 1922-23. He died at his residence, Fons George House, Wilton, Taunton, on Friday, aged 71. His family have represented the parish of Cheddon Fitzpaine, near Taunton, in Poor Law administration for more than a hundred years.
The first Somerset man to hold the position of chairman of the Council of Agriculture of England, he was also a member of the Somerset Executive of the National Farmers' Union, a county alderman, and chairman of the Taunton Rural District Council. He leaves a widow, four sons and a daughter.
Mr. BRUFORD was one of the fourth generation of his family to farm at Nerrols, where at an early age he commenced work on his father's farm, which he took over in 1896. He became a noted breeder of Devon cattle and Dorset Down sheep, while as a maker of cider with his famed Kingston Blacks he had few equals in Somerset.
He was also a member of the Council of the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society.
<NOTES: Robert BRUFORD son of Robert BRUFORD and Elizabeth Coles MUSGRAVE, married Frances Maria JEFFERIES>