BURRELL, Mark William 1937-2025

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 20 Dec 2025: BURRELL Mark William on 9th December 2025, peacefully at home aged 88 years. Beloved husband of Margot, father of William, Anthony and Sophia and much loved 'Bumpa' of nine grandchildren. Private funeral service. Memorial Service to celebrate his life to be held at St Mary the Virgin Church, Shipley, West Sussex on Friday 12th June 2026 at 2.30 p.m…

He was s of Lt-Col Sir Walter Raymond BURRELL 8 Bt CBE 1903-85 and Hon Anne Judith DENMAN 1907-87 d of 3 Baron DENMAN 1874-1954 and Hon Gertrude Mary PEARSON 1884-1954 d of 1 Viscount COWDRAY 1856-1927 and Annie 1860-1932 d of Sir John Hutchinson CASS 1832-96 and Hannah GAMBLE 1833-1904. He m 1966 Margot Rosemary (prev. Mrs Munro) d of Westray PEARCE of Killara, NSW, and had two sons and a dau as above.

[Paul Theroff]

The Lucky Burrels  :)

Whenever I read about the Burrell family I am reminded of how contemporaries in the 1700s viewed their rise. While their immediate origin was not so obscure as Walpole implies (and surely he knew that), their sudden rise to the greatest heights was nevertheless startling.

NOTE: Most of this fortune relates a line senior to that of the present Burrell Baronets, i.e., the children of the brother of Sir William Burrell, 2nd Bt.

https://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/gotha/heathcote_burrell.html



Horace Walpole wrote to Lady Ailesbury 10 July 1779:

"The Duke of Ancaster is dead, and Lord Bolinbroke. If I might advise I would recommend Mr Burrel to command the fleet in the room of Sir Charles Hardy -- the fortune of the Burrells is powerful enough to baffle calculation. Mr Burrel is Lord Great Chamberlain-Consort of England."


Similarly he write to Sir Horace Mann, 7 July 1779:

"The  Duke  of  Ancaster  is  dead  of  a  scarlet  fever  contracted by  drinking  and  rioting,  at  two  and  twenty....  Fortune  seems  to  have  removed  him  to  complete  her magnificent  bounties  to  one  family.  Do  you  remember old  Peter  Burrell,  who  was  attached  to  my  father  ?  His eldest  grand-daughter  is  married  to  a  Mr.  Bennet,  a  man of  large  estate  ;  the  second  to  Lord  Algernon  Percy  ;  the third  to  Lord  Percy  ;  and  the  youngest  one,  the  only  one at  all  pretty,  to  Duke  Hamilton.  Lady  Priscilla  Elizabeth Bertie,  eldest  sister  of  the  Duke  of  Ancaster,  fell  in love  with  their  brother,  and  would  marry  him,  not  at  all at  his  desire  ;  but  her  father,  the  Duke  of  Ancaster,  had entailed  his  whole  estate  on  his  two  daughters  after  his son,  to  the  total disinherison  of  his  brother  Lord  Brownlowe,  the  present  Duke  ; — and  the  grandson  of  Peter Burrell,  a  broken  merchant,  is  husband of  the  Lady  Great Chamberlain  of  England  with  a  Barony  and  half  the Ancaster  estate.  Old  Madam  Peter  is  living  to  behold all  this  deluge  of  wealth  and  honours  on  her  race.    The Duchesses  of  Ancaster  have  not  been  less  singular.  The three  last  were  never  sober.  The  present  Duchess  Dowager was  natural  daughter  of  Panton,  a  disreputable horse-jockey  of  Newmarket  ;  and  the  new  Duchess  was some  lady's  woman,  or  young  lady's  governess.  Fortune was  in  her  most  jocular  mood  when  she  made  all  these matches  or  had  a  mind  to  torment  the  Herald's  office.  "