Sir Charles Merrik Burrell, third baronet

(1774-1862)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Burrell, Charles Merrik, Sir, 1774-1862 NRA: Burrell, Sir Charles Merrik (1774-1862) 3rd Baronet MP for New Shoreham LBT ID: ChBurre1862 VIAF ID: 4025153 LOC ID: n88138608	B/BAP: 1774-05-24 DIED: 1862-01-04
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Educated at Westminster and Cambridge, he was a Conservative MP for New Shoreham (1806-62), known as “father of the House of Commons.” Robert Southey was his classmate at Westminster.
REFERENCES TO Sir Charles Merrik Burrell, third baronet: Robert Southey, “Memoir: Westminster School,” 16 March 1825 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Early Life: XVII Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 18: Mr. Perceval Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 7