Willoughby Merrik Campbell Burrell, 5th Baron Gwydyr, FRGS (26 October 1841 – 14 February 1915) was a British

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officer and peer. Burrell was the son of

Peter Robert Burrell, 4th Baron Gwydyr Peter Robert Burrell, 4th Baron Gwydyr (24 March 1810 – 3 April 1909) was High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1858. In addition, he was Secretary to the Lord Great Chamberlain, High Steward of Ipswich, and Chairman of Quarter Sessions, Suffolk. Bur ...

and Sophia Campbell. He had only one sibling, Hon. Cicely Burrell (born 1858), a half-sister, from his father's second marriage. On 3 April 1909, Burrell succeeded has father and became the 5th Baron Gwydyr, of Gwydyr, County Carnarvon .B., 1796 He was a

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in the

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and Honorary

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in the 4th Battalion,

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. He was also a Fellow of the

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. On 4 September 1873 at the British Embassy in Paris, he married Mary Banks, the only child of Sir

John Thomas Banks Sir John Thomas Banks (14 October 1816 – 16 July 1908) was an Anglo-Irish physician and, between 1880 and 1898, Regius Professor of Physic at Trinity College, Dublin. Life Provenance Although born in London, Banks lived and worked in Irel ...

who was Regius Professor of Physic at

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

. They had three children: # Catherine Mary Sermonda Burrell, married in 1902 John Henniker-Heaton (1877-1963), who later succeeded as 2nd Baronet Henniker-Heaton. # John Percy Burrell (1873–1902) # Randulphus Clement Robert Burrell (1876–1882) Burrell children

The family lived at 11

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Dublin as well as at Golagh House in County Monaghan. Randulphus died aged 6 in the house on Merrion Square despite Dr. Banks living nearby at number 45. Mary Banks Burrell was an early collector of materials related to

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. She died on 26 June 1898 having published the first volume of Wagner's biography. Burrell moved the remaining family to

Suffolk Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...

where, on 4 June 1901, he married Anne Ord (died 1910), daughter of John Ord, but had no further children. Sermonda attended the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. Both Burrell and his daughter, Sermonda, were members of the Ipswich Art Club. Burrell commissioned a full-length portrait of Anne from John Lavery who also presented Anne with a less formal portrait as a gift.

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Willoughby Willoughby 1841 births 1915 deaths English army officers Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society {{GB-baron-stub