Peter Burrell

Peter Burrell FRS (27 August 1724 – 6 November 1775) Burrell was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1745 and then with a Master of Arts. In 1749, he was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn. and subsequently for Totnes to 1774.

In 1752, he was invested as a Fellow of the Royal Society, and, in 1769, he was appointed Surveyor General of the Land Revenues of the Crown.

Family On 28 February 1748, Burrell married Elizabeth Lewis, daughter of John Lewis of Hackney; they lived at Langley Park. They had four daughters and a son, Peter, the later Baron Gwydyr.

The first daughter Elizabeth Amelia married in 1766 Richard Henry Alexander Bennet. The second daughter Isabella (1750–1812) married Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley, and was ancestor to the Dukes of Northumberland. The fourth daughter, Elizabeth, married firstly Douglas Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton and secondly Henry Cecil, 1st Marquess of Exeter. There was no issue from either marriage.