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BURDETT, SIR ROBERT, BART., son of Robert Burdett, Foremark, Derbs., and Hon. Elizabeth Tracy, d. of William, 4th Viscount Tracy (I); b. 28 May 1716; succ. his grandfather as 4th baronet 28 May 1716; perhaps at school under Freind (occurs in list of OW baronets c. 1765, in Chapter Muniments), but this is doubtful since he was certainly at Winchester Coll. in 1730-2; New Coll. Oxford, matr. 13 Apr 1733; DCL 14 Apr 1749; MP Tamworth 12 Dec 1748-68; m. 1st, 6 Nov 1739 Elizabeth, sister of Sir Charles Sedley, Bart. (qv); m. 2nd, 18 Jun 1753 Lady Caroline Manners, widow of Sir Henry Harpur, Bart. (and mother of Sir Henry Harpur, Bart. (qv)), and dau. of John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland KG; d. 15 Feb 1797]

BURGOYNE, JOHN, second son of Capt. John Burgoyne, Sherborne, Warwicks., and Anna Maria, dau. of Charles Burneston, Hackney, Middlesex; b. 4 Feb 1722/3; in school lists 1733, 1735-8; an intimate friend of James Smith Stanley, Lord Strange (qv); Cornet, 1st Royal Dragoons, 14 Jul 1743; Lieut., 22 Feb 1745; Capt., 1 Jul 1745; sold out 31 Oct 1751, on account of his debts, and resided for some years in France and Italy; re-entered Army as Capt., 11th Dragoons, 14 Jun 1756; Capt. -Lieut. and Lieut. -Col., 2nd Foot Guards, 10 May 1758; served in expeditions to Cherbourg and St. Malo 1758-9; raised 16th Dragoons and gazetted as Lieut. -Col. commandant, 4 Aug 1759; served in Portugal as Brig. -Gen., 1762; Brevet Col., 8 Oct 1762; Col. 16th Dragoons, 18 Mar 1763 - Oct 1779; Governor of Fort William 1769-79; Maj. -Gen., 25 May 1772; served in America 1775; present at battle of Bunker Hill; second in command under Sir Guy Carleton in Canada, 1776, in supreme command 1777; Lieut. -Gen., 29 Aug 1777; surrendered to Gates at Saratoga, 17 Oct 1777; allowed by Washington to return to England on parole, where he resigned his regiment and governorship; on the return of his political friends to power in 1782 became Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, 7 Jun 1782, holding post to 1784; Col., 4th Foot, from 7 Jun 1782; MP Midhurst 1761-8, Preston from 29 Nov 1768; proposed in 1772 that the East India Company should be controlled by the government; made a violent attack on Clive in May 1773, and was a manager of the impeachment of Warren Hastings, 1787; Privy Councillor (I) 4 May 1782; member, Society of Dilettanti, 1772; contributed to the Rolliad and Probationary Odes; author, The Heiress, 1786, and other plays; m. 1743 Lady Charlotte Stanley, sister of James Smith Stanley, Lord Strange (qv); d. 4 Aug 1792; buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

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, 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.

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, 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, 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.