GEMMS IDGEMMS-PERSON-002207
NameRichard Burton
Title
Gendermale
Denomination
Livedb. - d. (old)
Linked Manuscriptsmanuscript owner - Notebook in various hands: MS 1753
Linked Sermons
Linked Reports
Source of DataACAD (Venn) (ID: BRTN660R); B. Nightingale, The Ejected of 1662 in Cumberland & Westmorland: Their Predecessors and Successors, 2 vols (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1911), Vol. I, p. 229; Fiona McCall, Baal's Priests: The Loyalist Clergy and the English Revolution (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), p. 114; Hannah Yip.
Biographical Sources ConsultedACAD (Venn) (ID: BRTN660R); B. Nightingale, The Ejected of 1662 in Cumberland & Westmorland: Their Predecessors and Successors, 2 vols (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1911), Vol. I, p. 229; Fiona McCall, Baal's Priests: The Loyalist Clergy and the English Revolution (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), p. 114.
Other NoteRichard Burton was ordained priest in May 1618 and instituted on 21 June 1626. He held the livings of Dufton and Great Orton. In 1647, he was forced to surrender Great Orton. He contributed to the Carlisle garrison in 1643. Burton recorded his abduction by forces under Colonel Wren in a notebook, which survives as Lambeth Palace Library, MS 1753. His son was Robert Burton, who was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, in the 1660s, and who was prebendary of Lincoln in 1682 and vicar of Aylesbury in 1682 until his death in 1683.
GEMMS record createdJanuary 30, 2019
GEMMS record last editedJanuary 30, 2019