Henry Marley Burton

Captain Henry Marley Burton (1821–1880) was a British architect, who was trained by his uncle Decimus Burton and trained Edward John May FRIBA.

Family He was the eldest, and illegitimate, son of the gunpowder-manufacturer William Ford Burton (1784–1856): who was the eldest son of the eminent property developer James Burton. Henry Marley Burton had one brother who was William Warwick Burton who resided at Lincoln's Inn Fields and was articled as a solicitor to his uncle Septimus Burton (1794 – 1842).

Architect Henry Marley Burton was trained in the office of his uncle Decimus Burton, In 1866, Henry Marley was commissioned by John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton to design a mansion at Coneyborough, after Decimus had designed Bineham in Chailey for Dodson's brother-in-law John George Blencowe. He supervised the construction of additions to the Oriental Club, which were designed by Decimus Burton in 1853, when it eventually commenced in 1871.

Personal life and issue Henry Marley's residence was 14 Spring Gardens, St James's. He was also a Captain in the Queen's (Westminster) Rifle Corps. Henry Marley Burton died in 1880.

Henry Marley's son Edgar Burton also became an architect. Edgar Burton's daughter, Adelaide Veronica Elizabeth Burton, was abortively married, at St. George's, Hanover Square, to German Jew Leopold Albu, of 4 Hamilton Place, Mayfair, who was the brother of mining magnate Sir George Albu, 1st Baronet, between 19 August 1901 and 1915.