Sir Percy Burrell, 4th Baronet DL, JP (10 February 1812 – 19 July 1876) was a British

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politician.

Background

Born at

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, he was the second son of

Sir Charles Burrell, 3rd Baronet Sir Charles Merrik Burrell, 3rd Baronet (24 May 1774 – 4 January 1862), was an English Conservative politician, who represented the seat of New Shoreham for fifty-six years, becoming Father of the House of Commons. Burrell was born at Golden ...

and his wife Frances Wyndham, an illegitimate daughter of

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. Burrell was educated at

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and

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, where he matriculated in 1830. He served in the British Army and was captain of the

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Career

In 1862, he succeeded his father as baronet. He entered the

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in the same year, sitting for New Shoreham, the constituency his father had also represented before, until his death in 1876. He was a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace of Sussex.

Family

On 26 August 1856, he married Henrietta Katherine Brooke-Pechell, daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir George Brooke-Pechell, 4th Baronet at

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in London. Their marriage was childless. Burrell died, aged 64, at

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in London. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his younger brother

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Burrell, Percy 1812 births 1876 deaths Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain Percy Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Deputy lieutenants of Sussex UK MPs 1859–1865 UK MPs 1865–1868 UK MPs 1868–1874 UK MPs 1874–1880