Admiral Sir William Burnaby, 1st Baronet

Biographical Summary

"Sir William Burnaby [Knt.], Rear-Admiral of the Red, 3d s. of John Buenaby, of Kensington, Midx. (living 1718), by his 2d wife, Clara (marr. lic. Fac, 7 May 1700), da. of Sir Edward Wood, sometime Envoy Extraordinary to Sweden, was b. probably about 1710; was Capt. R.N. ; Knighted at St. James, 9 April 1754 ; Rear-Admiral, 1762, and finally Vice-Admiral of the Fleet ; Commander-in-Chief in Jamaica and in the Gulf of Mexico, assisting in settling the colony of Pensacola ; was of Broughton Hall in Broughton Pogis, Oxon ; was Sheriff of Oxon, 1755-56, and was cr. a Baronet, as above, 31 Oct. 1767. He m. firstly, in or before 1746, Margaret, widow of Timothy Donovan, of Jamaica. She d. 11 Feb. 1757. He m. secondly, Grace, da. of Drewry Ottlet, of Bedford Row, Holborn. He d. 1776 or 1777. Admon. 5 April 1777. His widow d. 3 March 1823, at Stoke Cottage, near Guildford, aged 84. Will pr. 1823."

SOURCE: Complete baronetage; Cokayne, George E. (George Edward); 1906; Vol. V; page 146

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