BRITIFFE, Robert (?1663-1749), of Baconsthorpe, Norf.

Britiffe was a Norwich lawyer, who acted as legal adviser to the Townshend and Walpole families, handling Walpole’s purchases of land in 1720.HMC Townshend, 348, 352-3; J. H. Plumb, Walpole, i. 210, 310, 361. Returned for Norwich as a Whig in 1715, he followed his patrons into opposition from 1717 to 1720, subsequently voting with the Government till he retired in favour of ‘old’ Horace Walpole in 1734. He died 22 Sept. 1749, leaving his property to his daughters, one of whom married Sir John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire, and the other, Sir William Morden Harbord, 1st Bt.