BURKE, WILLIAM, eldest son of John Burke (or Bourke), Middle Temple and St. James’s, London, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Burke, London, vintner; b.; adm. (aged 13) Sep 1742 (Durand's); KS 1743; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1747, matr. 26 Jun 1747, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1747 - 26 Jun 1761 (void), leave of absence on appt. as Secretary, Guadeloupe, 25 Aug 1759; BCL 1755; adm. Middle Temple 26 May 1750, called to bar 28 Nov 1755; Secretary and Registrar, Guadeloupe, 1759-63; Under-Secretary of State, Jul 1765 - Feb 1767; MP Great Bedwyn 16 Jun 1766-8, 29 May 1768-74; lost substantial sums of money in speculations on the Stock Exchange, 1769; in India 1777-8, becoming agent for Rajah of Tanjore; again in India 1780-93, initially at Madras, subsequently at Calcutta; Deputy Paymaster of the Forces, East Indies, 1782-93; present at OWW dinner at Calcutta 1783 (Hickey, Memoirs, iii, 245-6); figures in Goldsmith’s Retaliation; lived on intimate terms with his distant kinsman Edmund Burke, with whom he wrote An Account of the European Settlements in America, 1757; author of two pamphlets on the peace negotiations, 1759 and 1761; d. Mar 1798. DNB.

Burleigh, Leonard Tekenika William Gilbert, son of the Rev. Leonard Henry Burleigh, a missionary on the staff of the South American Missionary Society, by Susan Ellen, daughter of William Gilbert, of Plymouth; b. June 19, 1891; adm. Sept. 28, 1905 (A); left July 1910; Queens' Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1910; B.A. 1913; M.A. 1914; Ridley Hall 1913, ordained (Southwark) deacon 1914, priest 1915; Curate of St. James's, Clapham, Surrey, 1914-8, of St. John the Evangelist, Stratford, Essex, 1918-20, of Holy Trinity, Tulse Hill, Surrey, 1920-5, and of Great Yarmouth 1925; Vicar of Lakenham, Norfolk 1926; Rector of Shipdham 1948; m. June 30, 1923, Madeline M., eldest daughter of Sydney H. Flindt, of Edenbridge, Kent; d. 13 Sept. 1982.

BURLEY, FRANCIS; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1616, adm. scholar 1617; BA 1620/1; MA 1624; ordained; Rector of Crofton, Yorks., until ejected; d. c. 1649.

BURMAN, MONTAGUE, brother of Thomas Burman (qv); bapt. 22 Apr 1727; adm. (aged 13) Jun 1741 (Heath's); Min. Can. 1743; left 1744; d. 9 Dec 1793 (will proved PCC 4 Feb 1794, as of St. Luke, Middlesex, Christian name given as Montagu).

BURMAN, THOMAS, eldest son of Thomas Burman, London and Beaulieu, Hants., and Ann, dau. of Rev. Henry Adams; bapt. St. Martin in the Fields 26 Mar 1708 (IGI); adm. Jan 1720/1; KS (aged 14) 1722; left 1726; adm. Middle Temple 4 May 1723; master, Free School, Christchurch, Hants.; ordained deacon (Peterborough) 25 May 1755, priest (Winchester) Jun 1756; Curate, Christchurch, Hants., 1756; Rector of Dibden, Hants., from Apr 1758; m. 26 May 1757 Susannah Good (IGI); d. 24 Jan 1784.

BURNABY, ANDREW, eldest son of Rev. Andrew Burnaby, Brampton Manor House, Hunts., Prebendary of Lincoln and Rector of Asfordby, Leics., and Hannah, dau. of George Beaumont, Darton, Yorks.; b. 16 Aug 1732 (IGI); adm. (aged 14) Jan 1746/7 (Preston's); Min. Can. 1747; KS 1748; left 1748; Queen’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 8 Mar 1749/50, matr. 1750; BA 1754; MA 1757; DD 1776; ordained deacon 23 Feb 1755, priest 19 Sep 1756 (both Lincoln); travelled in North America 1759-60; Chaplain at Leghorn, 1762-7; Vicar of Greenwich, Kent, from 1769; Archdeacon of Leicester from 25 Jan 1786; author, Travels through the Middle Settlements of North America, 1775, A Jounal of a Tour in Corsica in the Year 1766, 1804, and other works; m. 26 Feb 1770 Anna, dau. of John Edwyn, Baggrave Hall, Leics.; d. 9 Mar 1812. DNB.

BURNE, FREVILL LAMBTON, son of Capt. William Hunter Burne, and Caroline Jane, youngest dau. of Robert Allan, Newbottle, co. Durham; b. 20 Dec 1835; adm. Mar 1850 (Rigaud's).

BURNETT, MATTHEW, son of Matthew Burnett, St. Margaret, Westminster, cheesemonger; b.; adm. Mar 1734/5; KS (aged 14) 1739; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1743, adm. pens. 2 Jun 1743, scholar 20 Apr 1744, matr. 1743/4; BA 1746/7; an Usher at the School Sep 1747 - Dec 1759 (Second Usher Jun 1748); ordained deacon (Rochester) 18 Dec 1757; Recor of Weston, Suffolk [check].

BURRALL, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).

BURRELL, CHARLES WYNDHAM, eldest son of Sir Charles Merrik Burrell, Bart. (qv); b. 1 Jul 1809; adm. (G) 14 Jan 1823; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Dec 1826; d. 18 Jul 1827.