Sir Walter Wyndham Burrell, 5th Baronet JP (26 October 1814 – 24 January 1886) was a British barrister,

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politician and Freemason.

Background

He was the third 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, a daughter of

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. Burrell was called to the bar at

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in 1840. He served in the British Army and was an officer in the 2nd Sussex Rifle Volunteers. From 1877, Burrell was Grand Master of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Sussex.

Career

In 1865, Burrell contested

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unsuccessfully. He succeeded his older brother Percy as baronet in 1876 and entered the

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in the same year, sitting for New Shoreham, the constituency his father and brother had also represented before, until its abolishment in 1885. Burrell was

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in 1871.

Family

On 10 June 1847, he married Dorothea Jones, youngest daughter of Reverend John Applethwaite Jones, at

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. They had four daughters and two sons. Burrell died aged 71, at West Grinstead Park and was buried at Shipley, Sussex. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his oldest son Charles.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Burrell, Walter 1814 births 1886 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain

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