Richard Briscoe
Captain Richard George Briscoe MC was a British soldier and politician from Longstowe in Cambridgeshire. He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire from 1923 to 1945.
He was born in Brewood, Staffordshire, the son of William Arthur Briscoe, of Longstowe Hall, Cambridgeshire. He was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford. During the First World War, he served in the Grenadier Guards and was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry. He served again in the Second World War. He died suddenly in 1957 in London.
