Sussex Archaeological Collections: Relating to the history and antiquities of the counties of East and West Sussex
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The family circle and career of William Burrell, antiquary
by John H. Farrant
In the 1770s and '80s Dr William Burrell (1732-96) formed the antiquarian collection which underpinned the Sussex county histories of 1815-35. Born into the mercantile community of London with connections to the great jointstock and insurance companies and to government, he made his career in the capital as a civil lawyer and an Excise Commissioner. He never lived in Sussex, and his researches may have been prompted by his bachelor uncle who, with his father, used their commercial wealth to buy back much of the ancestral estate in Sussex and who built for himself a country seat at West Grinstead.
