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BURTON, EDMUND, son of Edmund Burton, New Palace Yard, Westminster, attorney, Clerk of the Revenue, Duchy of Lancaster; b.; adm. (aged 7) Jun 1728; KS 1734; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1738, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1738, scholar 18 May 1739; BA 1741/2; MA 1745; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Oct 1744, Major Fellow 3 Jul 1745; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 5 Dec 1737, called to bar 14 Jun 1745; an excellent classical scholar; author, The Satires of Persius translated into English, 1752, and other works; edited Manilius, 1783; lived in Dartmouth Street, Westminster. [will Edmund Burton, St. Margaret, Westminster, proved PCC 4 Apr 1803]

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

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.

BURTON, ROBERT LINGEN, brother of Edward Burton (qv); b. 31 May 1802; adm. 9 Feb 1816 (Best's); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 May 1820; BA 1824; MA 1827; ordained deacon 1825, priest 1826 (both Lichfield); Vicar of Holy Cross, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, 5 Jun 1826-57, and of St. Giles’s, Shrewsbury, 5 Jun 1826-85; Perpetual Curate of Ford, Shropshire, 30 May 1839-48; m. 1st, 1829 Everilda, dau. of Rev. Rigbye Baldwin Rigbye, Harrock Hall, Lancs.; m. 2nd, 24 Jun 1835, Mary Anne Elizabeth, widow of Orlando Hamlyn-Williams (qv), and eldest dau. of Rev. Charles Pyne-Coffin, Eastdown House, Devon, Rector of East Down, Devon; m. 3rd, 10 May 1859, Beatrice Julia, widow of Rev. John Oliver Hopkins, Vicar of St. Mary’s, Shrewsbury, and second dau. of Egerton Leigh, Jodrell Hall, Cheshire; d. 11 Dec 1887.

BURTON, THOMAS, son of Thomas Burton, Kingsland, Hereford, and Deborah, sister of Benjamin Woodroffe (qv); b.; adm.; KS 1669; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1672, matr. 3 Jul 1672, aged 18, Westminster Student 28 Feb 1673 - 30 Dec 1702, Tutor 1680-91, Junior Censor 1684, Senior Censor 1685-7; BA 1676; MA 1679; BD 1686; DD 1690; ordained (by 1685); Vicar of Frocester, Gloucs., 1686-92 [check]; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 30 Nov 1702, Sub-Dean to Dec 1711; [perhaps Chaplain in Ordinary to George I (Chamberlayne 1716 : “Dr. Burton”)]; Rector of Eastleach Martin, Gloucs., 1703-28; m. Ann Allen, Finchley, Middlesex; d. 3 Jul 1733.

BURWELL, THOMAS, son of Edward Burwell, Rougham, Suffolk, and Mary, dau. of Jeffrey Pitman, Woodbridge, Suffolk; bap 20 Apr 1626; adm.; KS 1640; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1645, adm. pens. 31 May 1645, scholar 1645, matr. Easter 1646; BA 1648/9; adm. Leiden Univ 3 May 1653, MD (incorp Camb. 1653); practised medicine in London to 1665, in Dorchester 1665-83, and then again in London; FRCP 20 Oct 1664, Censor 1684, 1689, 1695, 1696, Registrar 23 Jul 1685-8, President 1692, 1693; author of medical pamphlets; m. 15 Sep 1659 Jane, widow of Rev. John Stoughton DD, Perpetual Curate of St. Mary Aldermanbury, London, and previously of Rev. Walter Newburgh, Rector of Symondsbury, Dorset, and dau. of John Browne MP, Frampton, Dorset; d. 30 Jan 1701/2.

Bury, John Bernard, brother of Kenneth de Kay Bury (qv); b. 10 July 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (G); left July 1935; Balliol Coll. Oxf., matric. 1935; Roy. Signals 1940-5 (Maj. ); joined Shell Group 1947; dir. Shipping Fedn 1955-9; foreign member Portuguese Academy 1962; dir. Shell (Switzerland) 1964-6; Fellow commoner Churchill Coll. Camb. 1972-3; author of various works on Spanish and Italian art and architecture; m. 8 Sept. 1945 Anne Henderson MBE, d. of Duncan Henderson of Willingdon, Sussex; d. 18 Jan. 2017.