BUROSSE, --- ; b. ; adm. 23 Sep 1766. [Probably a son of Thomas Burosse who m. at St. Martin in the Fields 10 Sep 1751 Martha Lefebvre]
BURRALL, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).
BURRARD, ---; b.; adm. 1656 (school lists 1656, last three quarters).
BURRELL, SIR CHARLES MERRIK, BART., eldest son of Sir William Burrell, Bart. (qv); b. 21 May 1774; adm. 20 Jan 1785; still at school 1791; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 26 May 1791, matr. Mich. 1791; BA 1795; succ. as 3rd baronet 20 Jan 1796; of Knepp Castle, West Grinstead, Sussex; MP New Shoreham from 1806; “father” of the House of Commons from 1850; DL JP Sussex; introduced the white, or Belgian, carrot, and made many valuable experiments in feeding and fattening cattle; m. 8 Aug 1808 Frances Wyndham Ilive, natural dau. of George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (qv); d. 4 Jan 1862.
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.
BURRELL, PERCY, fourth son of Sir William Burrell, Bart. (qv); b. 6 Jul 1779; adm. 24 Apr 1786; at school 1792; left in his sixteenth year and entered a solicitor’s office at Dartmouth; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 1 Apr 1796; Ensign, 13th Foot, 1797; Lieut., 1 Sep 1797; served in Ireland during rebellion of 1798; ADC to Sir Charles Asgill (qv); Capt., 5th Dragoons, 1 Feb 1800; half-pay, 1802; restored to active list, 25 May 1803; accompanied General Whitelock’s expedition to South America; killed in attack on Buenos Aires 5 Aug 1807.
BURRELL, SIR PERCY, BART., second son of Sir Charles Merrik Burrell, Bart. (qv); b. 10 Feb 1812; adm. (G) 11 Jul 1825; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 8 Jul 1830; succ. his father as 4th baronet, 4 Jan 1862; MP (Cons) New Shoreham from Feb 1862; DL JP Sussex; m. 26 Aug 1856 Henrietta Katherine, dau. of Vice-Adm. Sir George Richard Brooke-Pechell, Bart., RN MP; d. 19 Jul 1876.
BURRELL, WALTER, third son of Sir William Burrell, Bart. (qv); b. 15 Apr 1777; adm. 20 Jan 1785; at school 1792; of West Grinstead Park, Sussex; MP Sussex from 1812; m. 21 Jul 1825 Helena Anne, widow of Charles Chisholme of Chisholme, Inverness-shire, and dau. of Alexander Ellice, London, merchant; d. 7 Apr 1831.
BURRELL, WILLIAM, son of Rev. William Burrell DD, Rector of Brightling, Sussex, and Elizabeth Noakes, Frant, Sussex; grandson of William Burrell (qv); bapt. 19 Sep 1713; adm. (aged 12) Aug 1726; in under school list 1728; Merton Coll. Oxford, matr. 20 Oct 1731; ordained deacon 19 Sep 1736, priest 30 Oct 1737 (Chichester); Rector of Brightling, Sussex, from 21 Oct 1737; buried Brightling 15 Jun 1746. [But this identification is likely to be wrong, for the William Burrell concerned, bapt. 19 Sep 1713, was adm. as a foundation scholar, Charterhouse Sch., 13 Jan 1723/4, and remained there until 1731].
BURRELL, SIR WILLIAM, BART., third son of Peter Burrell MP, Beckenham, Kent, Sub-Governor South Sea Co., and Amy, dau. of Hugh Raymond, Saling Park, Essex, and Langley, Kent, dir. South Sea Co.; b. 10 Oct 1732; adm. Jan 1742/3 (Morel's); left 1749; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 30 Jun 1749, matr. 1750; LLB 1755; LLD 1760; adm. advocate, Court of Arches, 13 Sep 1760; advocate, Doctors’ Commons, 3 Nov 1760; practised in Admiralty Court; Chancellor, Diocese of Worcester, from 16 Jul 1764, Diocese of Rochester from Aug 1771; director, South Sea Company, 1763-75, Sun Fire Insurance 1773-95; MP Haslemere 1768 - May 1774; retired from practice at Doctors’ Commons 1774; a Commissioner of Excise 14 May 1774 - 12 Sep 1789; succ. his father-in-law as 2nd baronet 24 Aug 1789; FSA 4 Apr 1754; a painstaking antiquary; his MS collections for a history of Sussex are preserved in the British Library; his MS reports of cases in the Admiralty Court 1766-74 were edited by R. G. Marsden in 1885; m. 13 Apr 1773 Sophia, poetess and dramatist, eldest dau. of Sir Charles Raymond, Bart., banker; d. 20 Jan 1796. DNB.