Walter Burke (purser)

One son, Henry Burke, rose to the rank of commander (from Lieutenant of the Renown) on 4 October 1800,[4] and captained the 16-gun brig-sloop HMS Seagull from June 1802.

In August 1803, he re-took the (East Indiaman) Lord Nelson, which had been captured by the privateer Bellone several days previously.

[5] Captain Henry Burke, and a younger brother, were lost with the rest of Seagull's complement when she disappeared at sea in the English Channel in February 1805.

Victory's carpenter, Mr Bunce, stands on the far right of the painting above Lieutenant George Miller Bligh, the dazed and wounded figure seated far right.

[11] Two large shell cases which stood at his gate of Burke House are claimed to be relics of HMS Victory.

[12] His headstone in Wouldham Church reads: Sacred to the Memory of Walter Burke, Esq, of this Parish, who died on the 12th September 1815 in the 70th year of his age.