John Gurdon Rebow
{{Short description|English Liberal Party politician}}
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John Gurdon Rebow ({{ne}} John Gurdon; 1799 - 11 October 1870){{Rayment-hc|c|5|date=March 2012}} was an English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1857 and 1870.
John Gurdon was the son of Theophilus Thornhaugh Gurdon of Letton, Norfolk, and his wife, Anne Mellish, daughter of William Mellish MP. He was educated at Eton College. On his marriage in 1835, he adopted the additional name of Rebow.{{clarify|date=February 2024}} He was a Deputy Lieutenant and J.P for Essex,{{cite book
|last=Mair
|first=Robert Henry
|title=Debrett's Illustrated House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1870|url=https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1870londuoft#page/232/mode/1up
|year=1870
|publisher=Dean & Son
|location=London
|page=232
}} as well as being a founding member of the Essex Archaeological Society.
At the 1847 general election, Rebow stood unsuccessfully for parliament at North Essex.{{cite book
|last=Craig
|first=F. W. S.
|author-link= F. W. S. Craig
|title=British parliamentary election results 1832–1885
|orig-year=1977
|edition= 2nd
|year=1989
|publisher= Parliamentary Research Services
|location=Chichester
|isbn= 0-900178-26-4
|page=386
}} He was High Sheriff of Essex in 1853 and was also High Steward of Colchester. In February 1857 he was elected at a by-election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Colchester.{{London Gazette
|issue= 21973
|date=27 February 1857
|page=816
}}Craig, pages 97–8 He was re-elected at the general election in March 1857{{London Gazette
|issue= 21983
|date=31 March 1857
|page=1182
}} but was defeated at the 1859 general election. At the 1865 general election he was re-elected for Colchester,{{London Gazette
|issue= 22993
|date=21 July 1865
|page=3626
}} and held until his death in 1870, at age 71.
File:John Constable - Wivenhoe Park, Essex - Google Art Project.jpg in 1816, when Mary was a child there]]
Rebow married firstly in 1835 Mary Ormsby, daughter of General Slater Rebow of Wivenhoe Park, and widow of Sir Thomas Ormsby, 3rd Baronet. He married secondly in 1845 Lady Georgina Graham-Toler, daughter of Hector Graham-Toler, 2nd Earl of Norbury.
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Category:People educated at Eton College
Category:Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Category:Deputy lieutenants of Essex
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Category:English justices of the peace
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