BURKE, JAMES; b.; adm. 2 May 1809; left 1811. [Evidently brother of, or close kin to, Thomas Burke, adm. same day]
BURKE, RICHARD, only son of Right Hon. Edmund Burke PC MP, Paymaster General, and Jane Mary, dau. of Christopher Nugent MD FRS LRCP, Bath and London; b. 9 Feb 1758; adm. 28 Jan 1771; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Dec 1772, Canoneer Student 23 Dec 1772 - res 17 Dec 1781 (ill-health); BA 1778; DCL 5 Jul 1793; adm. Middle Temple 1775, called to bar 1780; adm. Lincoln’s Inn, 7 May 1787; Deputy Paymaster-Gen. Mar - Jul 1782, Apr - Dec 1783; Receiver of Land Revenues, Middlesex, from 1783; Recorder of Bristol from 1783; auditor of estates of Earl Fitzwilliam May 1790 - Mar 1794; also managed estates of Duke of Portland; MP Malton from 18 Jul 1794, but did not live to take his seat in House of Commons; d. unm. 2 Aug 1794.
BURKE, THOMAS; b.; adm. 2 May 1809; left 1811.
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.
BURLAND, JOHN BERKELEY, son of Sir John Burland, Kt, a Baron of the Exchequer, and Laetitia, only dau. of William Berkeley Portman, Orchard Portman, Somerset; b. 6 Jan 1754; in school lists 1764-71; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford, matr. 10 Apr 1771; MA 1774; adm. Middle Temple 26 Oct 1769, called to bar 6 Feb 1778; adm. Inner Temple 14 Nov 1775, tenant chambers there 24 Nov 1775; MP Totnes from 1802; m. 1st, 29 Jan 1779 Theophila, dau. of John Farr, Stoke Gaylard, Somerset; m. 2nd, 29 Jan 1804 Anne, widow of William Gordon, Bristol, West India merchant, and dau. of Stephen Nash, Bristol and Leweston House, Dorset; d. 2 Nov 1804.
BURLEIGH, GEORGE, only surviving son of George Burleigh, St. Michael le Querne, London, milliner, and Elizabeth ---; b. 9 Aug 1710; adm. (aged 14) Oct 1724; apprenticed to Daniel Whitaker, attorney (afterwards his guardian), 14 Mar 1724/5; adm. solicitor, 12 Feb 1732/3; practised in London; m.; d. 1745.
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.
BURLETSON, ROBERT, son of Rev. William Burletson, Rector of Warehorne, Kent; b.; adm. (aged 15) 10 Jan 1714/5; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 9 Jan 1717/8, matr. 1718.
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.
3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork. Architect.