BURT, EDMUND, son of Edmund Burt, Westminster, and Anne Taylour; bapt. 27 Sep 1720; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1730; KS 1735; d. 27 Apr 1737; buried in North Cloister.
BURROWES, THOMAS, son of John Burrowes, Co. Dublin; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1717/8; KS 1720; “suspended during the pleasure of the Dean and Chapter for strikeing in the Church” 6 Feb 1723/4, but “admitted in again upon such punishment as the Dean shall direct” 17 Feb 1723/4 (Acts of Chapter); elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge1725, adm. pens. 29 May 1725, scholar 29 Apr 1726; BA 1728/9; MA 1732; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Oct 1731, Major Fellow 5 Jul 1732; adm. Gray’s Inn 1 May 1733; Esquire Bedell, Cambridge University, from 1734; m. 14 Sep 1734 Alice Yardley (IGI); d. 13 Aug 1767.
BURRELL, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1666, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1666, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1666, scholar 1667, matr. 1666/7; BA 1669/70; MA 1673; ordained deacon (London) 22 Dec 1672, priest 25 May 1673 (Chichester for Ely); Chaplain, Trinity Coll., 1673-81; Vicar of Heversham, Westmorland, 1676-7; Rector of Brightling, Sussex, from 10 Dec 1681; m.; buried Brightling 2 Aug 1708.
BURRALL, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).
BURNETT, MATTHEW, son of Matthew Burnett, St. Margaret, Westminster, cheesemonger; b.; adm. Mar 1734/5; KS (aged 14) 1739; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1743, adm. pens. 2 Jun 1743, scholar 20 Apr 1744, matr. 1743/4; BA 1746/7; an Usher at the School Sep 1747 - Dec 1759 (Second Usher Jun 1748); ordained deacon (Rochester) 18 Dec 1757; Recor of Weston, Suffolk [check].
BURNABY, ANDREW, eldest son of Rev. Andrew Burnaby, Brampton Manor House, Hunts., Prebendary of Lincoln and Rector of Asfordby, Leics., and Hannah, dau. of George Beaumont, Darton, Yorks.; b. 16 Aug 1732 (IGI); adm. (aged 14) Jan 1746/7 (Preston's); Min. Can. 1747; KS 1748; left 1748; Queen’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 8 Mar 1749/50, matr. 1750; BA 1754; MA 1757; DD 1776; ordained deacon 23 Feb 1755, priest 19 Sep 1756 (both Lincoln); travelled in North America 1759-60; Chaplain at Leghorn, 1762-7; Vicar of Greenwich, Kent, from 1769; Archdeacon of Leicester from 25 Jan 1786; author, Travels through the Middle Settlements of North America, 1775, A Jounal of a Tour in Corsica in the Year 1766, 1804, and other works; m. 26 Feb 1770 Anna, dau. of John Edwyn, Baggrave Hall, Leics.; d. 9 Mar 1812. DNB.
BURMAN, THOMAS, eldest son of Thomas Burman, London and Beaulieu, Hants., and Ann, dau. of Rev. Henry Adams; bapt. St. Martin in the Fields 26 Mar 1708 (IGI); adm. Jan 1720/1; KS (aged 14) 1722; left 1726; adm. Middle Temple 4 May 1723; master, Free School, Christchurch, Hants.; ordained deacon (Peterborough) 25 May 1755, priest (Winchester) Jun 1756; Curate, Christchurch, Hants., 1756; Rector of Dibden, Hants., from Apr 1758; m. 26 May 1757 Susannah Good (IGI); d. 24 Jan 1784.
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.
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.
Burgess, Oliver Ireland, son of George Douglas Burgess, C.S.I., of Mandalay, Burma, by Agnes, daughter of Col. James Robert Sale Henderson, of Rangoon, Burma; b. April 22, 1893; adm. as K.S. Sept. 26, 1907; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies) July 1912, matric. Michaelmas 1912; exhibitioner (Mathematics) 1912; B.A. 1915; M.A. 1919; served in France May 1916 - Dec. 1917, and in Italy Jan. 1918 - Jan. 1919; Lieut. R.E. Field Survey Co. July 1, 1917; mentioned in despatches L. G. Jan. 6, 1919; asst. master Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk, Sept. 1919 -July 1920, and Marlborough College, Sept. 1920; killed in a motor accident March 19, 1930.