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
- 1 2 "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Launceston". Archived from the original on 13 August 2009. Retrieved 29 April 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - 1 2 "ThePeerage - Peter Burrell". Retrieved 3 March 2007.
- 1 2 "Burrell, Peter (BRL741P)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ↑ "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Totnes". Archived from the original on 26 September 2008. Retrieved 23 April 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ↑ 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.
- 1 2 Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. Vol. I (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 775.
- ↑ "Bennet, Richard Henry Alexander (?1742-1814), of North Court, Shorwell, I.o.W., History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
- ↑ The Gentleman's Magazine: 1830. E. Cave. 1830. pp. 465–.