Edwyn Burnaby, High Sheriff of Leicestershire

• Burke, Bernard, Sir. A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland 6th ed. London : Harrison 1879. Vol I. page 229

Edwyn Burnaby (29 September 1798 – 18 July 1867) was an English landowner, of Baggrave Hall, Leicestershire,[1] a Justice of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenant, and High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1864. He also succeeded his father in the Court post of Gentleman of the Privy chamber.[1][2]

Edwyn was the eldest son of Edwyn Andrew Burnaby snr., (d. 1825) (whom he succeeded on October 1, 1825), and his wife Mary, daughter & heiress of the Reverend William Browne and wife Mary Adcock. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford,[1] and served as a captain in the Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards[2] and the Leicestershire Yeomanry.

On August 29, 1829, he married Anne Caroline Salisbury, daughter of Thomas Salisbury, by Frances, daughter of Francis Webb.[3]

They had several children, including:

Edwyn Sherard Burnaby (1830–1883), general and Member of Parliament[1]

Caroline Louisa Burnaby (1832–1918), by whom Burnaby became great grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II[4]

Cecilia Florence Burnaby (d. 1869), married George Onslow Newton.[5]

Gertrude Laura Burnaby (d. 1865), married Ernest Augustus Mallet Vaughan, 4th Earl of Lisburne[6]