Peter Burrell (6 August 1692 – 16 April 1756), of Langley Park, Beckenham, Kent, and Mark Lane, Fenchurch St., London, was a British merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1756.
[1] Burrell was returned as Member of Parliament (MP) for Haslemere in a contest at the 1722 British general election.
In 1730, he introduced a bill, which became law, allowing South Carolina to send rice direct to Southern Europe.
In 1737 he was one of the main speakers against Sir John Barnard's scheme for reducing the interest on the national debt.
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