British politician and barrister
Peter Burrell FRS (27 August 1724 – 6 November 1775)[ 1] 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] Sir Merrick Burrell, 1st Baronet and his younger brother Sir William Burrell, 2nd Baronet .[ 2] St John's College, Cambridge , and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1745 and then with a Master of Arts .[ 3] Lincoln's Inn .[ 3]
Burrell sat as Member of Parliament (MP) in the British House of Commons for Launceston from 1759 to 1768[ 1] 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] 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
^ a b "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 )^ a b "ThePeerage - Peter Burrell" . Retrieved 3 March 2007 .^ a b "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 194 . ^ Lodge, Edmund (1838). The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage 524 . ^ a b 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
