BURRELL, Merrick (1699-1787), of West Grinstead Park, Suss.

Merrick Burrell was a very considerable merchant, a financier much consulted by the Treasury, and a steady supporter of the Government, on whose interest he unsuccessfully contested Bishop’s Castle in 1741. In 1744 he bought an estate at West Grinstead for £10,780.Suss. Arch. Colls. xliii. 32. Returned unopposed on the Clayton interest for Great Marlow in 1747, he was given the contract for victualling the Gibraltar garrison in 1752, together with Thomas Walpole, M.P., and the two Fonnereaus. He died 6 Apr. 1787.