John Burrard (9 January 1646 – 14 May 1698) was MP for

Lymington Lymington is a port town on the west bank of the Lymington River on the Solent, in the New Forest district of Hampshire, England. It faces Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, to which there is a car ferry service operated by Wightlink. It is within the ...

from 1679 to 1698. Burrard was born at

, the son of Thomas Burrard and Elizabeth née Isham. He was educated at the

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. In 1666 he married Elizabeth, daughter of John Button, MP: they had two sons and five daughters. She died in 1676 and he married secondly Alice, daughter of

Richard Herbert, 2nd Baron Herbert of Chirbury Richard Herbert, 2nd Baron Herbert of Chirbury (''c.'' 1604 – 13 May 1655) was an Anglo-Welsh Member of Parliament, a Royalist who fought with the rank of colonel in the English Civil War, and a peer whose membership of the House of Lor ...

.G. E. Cokayne et al., eds., The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant (1910-1959, reprint in 6 volumes, 2000), vol. VI, p. 442 Burrard was a Gentleman of the

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from 1666 to 1685. He was made a

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in 1667; and was

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from 1672 to 1673, and again from 1692 to 1695. He was Commissioner for Assessment for Hampshire from 1677 to 1680 and again from 1689 to 1690; and Commissioner of Wastes and Spoils for the

New Forest The New Forest is one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in Southern England, covering southwest Hampshire and southeast Wiltshire. It was proclaimed a royal forest by William the Conqueror, featu ...

in 1679. He was Ranger of the New Forest and Governor of

Hurst Castle Hurst Castle is an artillery fort established by Henry VIII on the Hurst Spit in Hampshire, England, between 1541 and 1544. It formed part of the king's Device Forts coastal protection programme against invasion from France and the Holy Roman ...

from 1689; and Lieutenant Colonel of Militia (Foot) from 1697.

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People from Lymington 18th-century English people English MPs 1680–1681 English MPs 1681 1646 births 1703 deaths 17th-century English soldiers New Forest Governors of Hurst Castle {{17thC-England-MP-stub