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Burton, Edmund, ca. 1721-1803
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ca. 1721-1803
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BURTON, EDMUND, son of Edmund Burton, New Palace Yard, Westminster, attorney, Clerk of the Revenue, Duchy of Lancaster; b.; adm. (aged 7) Jun 1728; KS 1734; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1738, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1738, scholar 18 May 1739; BA 1741/2; MA 1745; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Oct 1744, Major Fellow 3 Jul 1745; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 5 Dec 1737, called to bar 14 Jun 1745; an excellent classical scholar; author, The Satires of Persius translated into English, 1752, and other works; edited Manilius, 1783; lived in Dartmouth Street, Westminster. [will Edmund Burton, St. Margaret, Westminster, proved PCC 4 Apr 1803]
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GB 2014
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.