In 1846 he declined an offer from Henry Phillpotts, bishop of Exeter to exchange into that diocese with the prospect of appointment to the first vacant archdeaconry.
[2] In 1833 he published ‘Reasons for a Session of Convocation,’ and when that object was attained he was one of its most active members, first as proctor for the parochial clergy in 1857, and subsequently, in 1868, for the chapter.
Together with other minor reforms, he was the first to institute an afternoon nave sermon, and during successive Lents he delivered courses of lectures on the prayer-book and on church history.
Written from a distinctly high-church point of view, it gave a clear narrative of the events of the period, and is free from sectarian bitterness.
[2] Besides many occasional sermons, pamphlets, letters, and printed speeches on ecclesiastical subjects, of which a catalogue is given in Bloxam's Magdalen College Register (vii.
He left two sons: Francis Burrell, captain 5th lancers; and William Oswald, at one time rector of Ormsby.