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Author: Burnet, Richard

Biography:

BURNET, Richard (1772-1857: ancestry.co.uk)

He was born on 2 Oct. 1772 and baptised on 29 Oct. at St. Mary Le Strand, Westminster, London, the youngest of five children of Charles Burnet and his wife Esther Lawrence, who had married at St. Martin’s in the Fields on 3 Nov. 1767. He was educated at William Emblin’s Leytonstone Academy and proceeded to St. John’s College, Cambridge (matric. 1792) but migrated to Trinity College (matric. 1793, Scholar 1796, BA 1797). He was ordained deacon (1797) and priest (1798) and became curate of St. Andrew’s, Bungay, Suffolk. He also became Master of Bungay Grammar School in 1805. He was curate of Woodchurch, Kent, 1819-23, and then vicar of Bethersden, Kent, 1823-57. He married Catharine Naylor on 14 June 1804 at St. Gregory’s, Sudbury, Suffolk. They had at least two sons and two daughters. The eldest son, Charles Reginald, died in 1840, aged 32. The daughters, Frances and Louisa, never married and lived at home. He died at Bethersden and was buried there on 15 Jan. 1857. His wife, Catharine Burnet, also died there, in 1861. (ancestry.co.uk 20 Jan. 2023; findmypast.co.uk 20 Jan. 2023; A. J. Pearman, “Bethersden; its Church and Monumental Inscriptions,” Archaeologica Cantiana, 16 [1886], 95; Copsey, 1: 88; Kentish Gazette 26 June 1804, 17 Nov. 1840, 12 Mar. 1861) AA

 

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Norwich/ London/ Oxford/ Cambridge: R. M. Bacon/ Longman and Co./ Cooke/ Deighton, 1808