BURCHETT, Josiah (c.1666-1746), of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, Mdx.

Family and Education

b. c. 1666, prob. 1st surv. s. of John Burchett of Sandwich by his 2nd w. Katherine. m. (1) 24 Dec. 1695, Thomasine (d. 1713), da. of Sir William Honywood, 2nd Bt.*, 1s. 2da. (1 d.v.p.); (2) 22 July 1721, Margaret (d. 1740), wid. of Capt. Robert Arris, ?s.p.; (3) 10 June 1740, Isabella (d. 1756), da. of John Robinson*, wid. of Mr. Wood, ?s.p. Mariner’s Mirror, xxiii. 479, 489, 492; Add. 31139, f.56; Navy Recs. Soc. cxx. 56; PCC 158 Glazier; London Mar. Lic. ed. Foster, 1144.

Offices Held

Clerk to Samuel Pepys, as sec. to Admiralty, c.1680– Aug. 1687; clerk in the Admiralty Mar. ?1689–? Jan. 1691, by July 1693–?Apr. 1694; sec. to adm. of the Fleet Jan. 1691–by July 1693, ?Apr. 1694–Sept. 1694; sec. to Admiralty Sept. 1694–Oct. 1742; dep. judge advocate of Fleet July 1693–Aug. 1694; sec. of marines Feb. 1708–1713. Luttrell, Brief Relation, vi. 268.

Commr. Greenwich Hosp. 1695–?1704; er. bro. Trinity House 1707–22. Add. 10120, f. 233; W. R. Chaplin, Trinity House, 188.

Parlimentarian

BURCHETT, Josiah (c.1666-1746), of Hampstead, Mdx.

Main residence: St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, Mdx.

Author

S.N.H.

Volume

Commons 1690-1715

Web Title

BURCHETT, Josiah (c.1666-1746)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

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