Sir John Burgh was the son of Lord William Burgh and Katherine Clinton, and younger brother of Thomas Burgh, 3rd Lord Burgh. He was a soldier, knighted in 1586. He died of a wound received during a duel on 10 March 1594, age 32, and was buried in St Andrew's Chapel in Westminster Abbey.
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