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British politician and barrister
Peter Burrell
FRS (27 August 1724 – 6 November 1775)
[1] was a
British politician and barrister.
Life
Born in
London , he was the son of
Peter Burrell and his wife Amy Raymond, daughter of Hugh Raymond.
[2] His uncle was
Sir Merrick Burrell, 1st Baronet and his younger brother
Sir William Burrell, 2nd Baronet .
[2] Burrell was educated at
St John's College, Cambridge , and graduated with a
Bachelor of Arts in 1745 and then with a
Master of Arts .
[3] In 1749, he was called to the bar by
Lincoln's Inn .
[3]
Burrell sat as
Member of Parliament (MP) in the
British House of Commons for
Launceston from 1759 to 1768
[1] and subsequently for
Totnes to 1774.
[4]
In 1752, he was invested as a
Fellow of the
Royal Society , and, in 1769, he was appointed
Surveyor General of the Land Revenues of the Crown .
[5]
Family
On 28 February 1748, Burrell married Elizabeth Lewis, daughter of John Lewis of Hackney; they lived at Langley Park.
[6] They had four daughters and a son,
Peter , the later
Baron Gwydyr .
[7]
The first daughter Elizabeth Amelia married in 1766
Richard Henry Alexander Bennet .
[8]
The second daughter
Isabella (1750–1812) married
Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley , and was ancestor to the
Dukes of Northumberland .
[7]
The third daughter
Frances Julia Burrell married
Hugh Percy , Second
Duke of Northumberland in 1779, and was mother to both the Third
Duke of Northumberland , also named Hugh, and
Algernon Percy , Fourth
Duke of Northumberland . Frances's husband and Isabella's husband were brothers, both sons of
Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland .
[9]
The fourth daughter,
Elizabeth , married firstly
Douglas Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton and secondly
Henry Cecil, 1st Marquess of Exeter . There was no issue from either marriage.
References
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"Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Launceston" . Archived from the original on 13 August 2009. Retrieved 29 April 2009 . {{
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a
b
"ThePeerage - Peter Burrell" . Retrieved 3 March 2007 .
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a
b
"Burrell, Peter (BRL741P)" . A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge.
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"Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Totnes" . Archived from the original on 26 September 2008. Retrieved 23 April 2009 . {{
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^ Haydn, Joseph (1851).
The Book of Dignities: Containing Rolls of the Official Personages of the British Empire . London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longman's. p.
194 .
^ Lodge, Edmund (1838).
The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage (6th ed.). London: Saunder and Otley. p.
524 .
^
a
b Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England . Vol. I (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 775.
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"Bennet, Richard Henry Alexander (?1742-1814), of North Court, Shorwell, I.o.W., History of Parliament Online" . www.historyofparliamentonline.org .
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The Gentleman's Magazine: 1830 . E. Cave. 1830. pp. 465–.