William Burton (c. 1695–1781), of Ashwell and North Luffenham, Rutland, was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1730 to 1734.
[2] Burton was returned as a Whig Member of Parliament for Rutland at a by-election on 12 February 1730.
Walpole gave him a place as Commissioner of excise in 1737 which he held until 1776 when he was forced to retire on grounds of ill-health.
[1] He sold North Luffenham Manor to Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 3rd Baronet in 1764.
[1] His brother Bartholomew Burton was a Governor of the Bank of England and MP.