Sir Walter Burrell, 5th Baronet

Sir Walter Wyndham Burrell, 5th Baronet JP (26 October 1814 – 24 January 1886)[1] was a British barrister, Conservative politician and Freemason.

[2] He served in the British Army and was an officer in the 2nd Sussex Rifle Volunteers.

[3] He succeeded his older brother Percy as baronet in 1876 and entered the British House of Commons in the same year, sitting for New Shoreham, the constituency his father and brother had also represented before, until its abolishment in 1885.

[3] On 10 June 1847, he married Dorothea Jones, youngest daughter of Reverend John Applethwaite Jones, at St James's Church, Piccadilly.

[2] Burrell died aged 71, at West Grinstead Park[2] and was buried at Shipley, Sussex.

Engraving of Walter Burrell, published 1835 in The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex by Thomas Walker Horsfield
Engraving of West Grinstead Park near West Grinstead, West Sussex, published 1835 in The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex by Thomas Walker Horsfield.