Walter Wyndham Burrell JP (1814 - 1886)

Born 26 Oct 1814 in West Grinstead, Sussex, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Dorothea (Jones) Burrell — married 10 Jun 1847 in St. James's Church, Westminster, London, England

Descendants

Died 24 Jan 1886 at age 71 in West Grinstead, Sussex, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

5th Baronet Raymond, of Valentine House, co. Essex [G.B., 1774]

Sir Walter Wyndham Burrell, 5th Baronet JP was a British barrister, Conservative politician and freemason. [1]

Walter Wyndham was born in 1814. He was baptised on 19 Dec 1814 at West Grinstead, Sussex,[3] the third son of Sir Charles Merrick Burrell Charles Merrik Burrell and Frances Wyndham, a daughter of George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont.

He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1840.[3] He served in the British Army and was an officer in the 2nd Sussex Rifle Volunteers.

In 1865, he contested East Sussex unsuccessfully. He was High Sheriff of Sussex in 1871. He succeeded his older brother Percy as baronet in 1876 and entered the British House of Commons in the same year, sitting for New Shoreham, the constituency his father and brother had also represented before, until it was abolished in 1885. From 1877, He was Grand Master of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Sussex.

On 10 June 1847, he married Dorothea Jones, youngest daughter of Reverend John Applethwaite Jones,Rector of Burleigh-on-the-hill, Co. Rutland, at St James's Church, Piccadilly. They had four daughters and two sons.[3] Burrell died aged 71, at West Grinstead Park[3] and was buried at Shipley, Sussex. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his oldest son Charles.

His wife died on 8 Feb 1891 at Cuckfield, Sussex, England. He predeceased her in 1886. ^[1]

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Sources

1. Burrell Family Tree compiled by Michael Fraser-Allen (from Mar 1993 to date) from various sources, mainly eight editions of Burke's Peerage and Baronetage (from 1834 to 1900), held in the Library of the Society of Genealogists in London, England.

2. Sir Walter Burrell - Wikipedia.

3. England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 -- FamilySearch.org.

4. Burke's Peerage - 1900 and 1909 Editions

5. FreeBMD Marriages Jun 1847 St James Westminster Volume 1 Page 147

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