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BURTON, EDWARD LINGEN, son of Robert Lingen Burton (qv), and his second wife; b. 12 Jun 1836; at Marlborough Coll. Aug 1846 - Christmas 1847; adm. 31 Jan 1850 (Rigaud's); his pursuit with Francis Markham (qv) over the roofs of the precincts after Frank Buckland’s monkey is related in Recollections of a Town-Boy at Westminster, pp 202-4; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 31 May 1855; went out to Natal with Julius Alington (qv), where he started farming; m. 20 Jun 1865 Edith Maria, only dau. of Charles James Tyrell Oakes, East Bergholt, Suffolk; d. at Pietermaritzburg, Natal, 6 Apr 1865.

BURTON, EDWARD, son of Maj. Edward Burton, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, and Dorothy Eliza, sister of John Brickdale Blakeway (qv); b. 13 Feb 1794; adm. Christmas 1808; left 1811; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 May 1812, Canoneer Student 1813; 1st cl. Classics and Mathematics 1815; BA 1815; MA 1818; BD 1828; DD 1829; ordained; Select Preacher 1824, 1827; Bampton Lecturer, 1828; Regius Professor of Divinity, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and Rector of Ewelme, Oxfordshire, from 1 Aug 1829; author, Testimonies of the Anti-Nicene Fathers to the Divinity of Christ, 1826, and other works; m. 12 May 1825 Helen, dau. of Ven. Joseph Corbett DD (formerly Plymley), Longnor Hall, Shropshire, Archdeacon of Shropshire; d. 19 Jan 1836. DNB.

BURTON, FRANCIS, son of Col. Francis Burton, St. George’s, Westminster, and his second wife Mary, dau. of William Laremer, Knightsbridge; b. May 1744; at school under Markham (Steward, Anniversary Dinner, 1779); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 9 Dec 1760, aged 16, Canoneer Student 27 Jun 1763- Jun 76, Faculty Student 22 Jun 1776 - void 15 Jan 1788, on marriage; BA 1764; MA 1767; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 4 May 1761, called to bar 10 Feb 1768, Bencher 12 Feb 1778, Treasurer 1792; KC 18 Jan 1778; Recorder of Woodstock 1780-1802; Puisne Judge, Chester, 5 Jul 1788 - Mar 1817; Recorder of Oxford 26 May 1797 - Jul 1801; MP Heytesbury 4 Dec 1780-4, Woodstock 1784-90, Oxford 1790-1812; a respected member of House of Commons; became blind some years before his death; founded a prize for Town Boys 1825; m. 1 Jan 1788 Catherine, eldest dau. of Nicholas Halhead, Woodstock, Oxfordshire; d. 28 Nov 1832.

On 15 Jun 1825 he gave to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster a Thames and Isis Navigation Bond for £100, the interest on which was to be used “for the purpose of purchasing annually a few books to be presented by the Head Master for the time being as tokens of merit to such of his scholars not on the Royal Foundation, as he may deem most deserving, and at such times and in such manner as he may think fit”. This security was never changed by the Chapter, and finally became valueless. The interest, which was continually dropping, was allowed to accumulate for a number of years, and the amount thus obtained was invested on 27 Feb 1855 in the purchase of £100 Consols.

BURTON, HENRY, second son of Rev. Henry Burton, Vicar of Atcham, Shropshire, and Mary, dau. of William Gittins, Chilton, Shropshire; b. 21 Aug 1804; adm. 16 Jun 1819 (Best's); Christ Church, Oxford. matr. 10 May 1822; BA 1826; MA 1831; ordained; Rector of Upton Cressett, Shropshire, 4 Sep 1829; Vicar of Atcham, Shropshire, from 15 Feb 1831; JP Shropshire; m. 28 Jan 1845 Hon. Charlotte Belasyse Barrington, third dau. of George Barrington, 5th Viscount Barrington (I) (qv); d. 6 Sep 1873.

BURTON, JOHN CONYERS; b.; adm. 1 Dec 1777. [presumably kin to Rev. David Conyers Burton, Broughton, Lincs., will proved PCC 18 Jan 1832 : he was son of Richard Burton, and Mary ---, b. 30 May 1763, bapt. St. Alphege, London 26 Jun 1763]

BURTON, JOHN; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1543 (Chapter Muniments).

BURTON, LANCELOT; b.; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1718; in under school list 1721. [Presumably Lancelot Burton, son of Richard Burton, and Elizabeth ---, bapt. St. Peter le Poer, London 25 Apr 1707 (IGI)] [note wills of Lancelot Burton, St. Anne, Westminster, proved PCC 27 Aug 1734; Lancelot Burton, HM Muster Master and Storekeeper, Deal, Kent, proved PCC 21 Nov 1750; Lancelot Burton, Acton, Middlesex, proved PCC 26 Nov 1764] [note Lancelot Burton, Clerk, Ticket Office, Navy Office Jan 1724 – 19 Nov 1725, discharged]

BURTON, MICHAEL, only son of Rev. Michael Burton DD, Rector of Staplehurst, Kent, and Anne, sister of Sir Robert Hickes, Bart. (qv); adm. 27 Feb 1767; left Whitsun 1774; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 9 Jun 1773, aged 15; migr. to Christ’s Coll., adm. pens. 18 Dec 1775, resided to Midsummer 1776; adm. Inner Temple 19 Oct 1771, called to bar 23 Nov 1781; said to have been living at Mildenhall, Suffolk, in 1789 (will proved PCC 5 Oct 1810, as of Milding, Suffolk).

BURTON, NICHOLAS, son of Ven. John Burton DD, Archdeacon of Cleveland, and Sarah, dau. of Everingham Cressy, Birkin, Yorks.; b.; adm.; KS (aged 12) 1687; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1691, matr. 4 Jul 1691, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1691- 1702, void, having been admonished for “great negligence and many notorious crimes” 7 Dec 1693; BA 1695; MA 1698; ordained; Head Master, Durham GS 1699-1709; Rector of St. Mary Le Bow, Durham, 1703-5; Lecturer, Durham Cathedral; m. 1st, Martha ---; m. 2nd, 18 May 1704 Elizabeth, widow of Sir Robert Fenwick, Kt., Bywell, Northumberland, and dau. of Sir Richard Graham, Bart., Norton Conyers, Yorks. [check]; buried St. Mary Le Bow, Durham, 1 Jul 1713.

BURTON, REGINALD, brother of Edmund Charles Burton (qv); b. 3 Mar 1830; adm. 27 Jan 1842 (Scott's); QS 1844; coxed eight against Eton 29 Jul 1845, 30 Jul 1846, and rowed v. Eton 29 Jul 1847; left 1848; a clerk in the Customs (retired by 1881); m. 17 Jun 1858 Anne, eldest dau. of Henry Merceron, Bethnal Green; d. 26 Apr 1892.