BURRELL, Merrick (1699-1787), of West Grinstead Park, Suss.

Constituency	Dates
Great Marlow	1747
Grampound	1761
Haslemere	1774
Great Bedwyn	1780

Family and Education

b. 3 Apr. 1699, 4th s. of Peter Burrell of Kelseys, Beckenham, Kent, and yr. bro. of Peter Burrell. educ. Merchant Taylors’ 1713-14. unm. cr. Bt. 15 July 1766, with sp. rem. to his nephew Peter Burrell, M.P.

Offices Held

Director, Bank of England 1742–56 (with statutory intervals), dep. gov. 1756–8, gov. 1758 – 60, director 1760–4.

Address

Main residence: West Grinstead Park, Suss.

biography text

Merrick Burrell was a very considerable merchant, a financier much consulted by the Treasury, and a steady supporter of the Government, on whose interest he unsuccessfully contested Bishop’s Castle in 1741. In 1744 he bought an estate at West Grinstead for £10,780.1Suss. Arch. Colls. xliii. 32. Returned unopposed on the Clayton interest for Great Marlow in 1747, he was given the contract for victualling the Gibraltar garrison in 1752, together with Thomas Walpole, M.P., and the two Fonnereaus. He died 6 Apr. 1787.

Author

R.S.L.

Volume

Commons 1715-1754

Notes

1. Suss. Arch. Colls. xliii. 32.