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Family and Education
b. 18 Sept. 1643, Edinburgh, s. of Sir Robert Burnet, and Rachel, da. of James Johnston of Wariston, sis. of Archibald Johnston‡, of Wariston. educ. privately; Marischal Coll. Aberdeen. matric. 1652, MA 1657; ct. of justice 1657-8. m. (1) c.1672-3, Lady Margaret (d. May 1685), da. of John Kennedy, 6th earl of Cassilis [S], s.p. (2) 25 May 1687, Burnet Supp. ed. Foxcroft, 251n. Mary Scott (d.1698), of The Hague, 5s. (2 d.v.p.) 2da. T.E.S. Clarke and H.C. Foxcroft, Life of Gilbert Burnet, 353. (3) c. 23 May 1700, Add. 72498, ff. 15-16. Elizabeth (d. 3 Feb. 1709), da. of Sir Richard Blake of The Strand, Mdx. wid. of Robert Berkeley of Spetchley, Worcs. 2da. d.v.p. Clarke and Foxcroft, 380. d. 17 Mar. 1715; will 24 Oct. 1711 – 17 Apr. 1714; pr. 24 Mar. 1715. TNA, PROB 11/545.
Offices Held

Probationer 1661; minister Saltoun 1665 – 69; clerk of presbytery Haddington 1667; prof. of divinity Glasgow Univ. 1669 – 74; royal chap. 1673; chap. Rolls Chapel 1675 – 84; lecturer St. Clement Danes 1675 – 83, St Mary-le-Bow Jan. 1689; Morrice, Entring Bk. iv. 270. DD Lambeth 1680; Fear, Exclusion and Revolution ed. J. McElligott, 149–50. Chap. to Prince of Orange 1688; chan. Order of Garter 1689; preceptor to duke of Gloucester 1698 – 1700.

Eccles. commr. [I], 1690, CSP Dom. 1690–1, p. 158. Eng. Mar. 1695, CSP Dom. 1694–5, p. 402. 1699. CSP Dom. 1699–1700, p. 276.

Commr. hospitals 1691, CSP Dom. 1690–1, pp. 240, 473. Q. Anne’s Bounty 1704. G.F.A. Best, Temporal Pillars, 520.

Freeman/burgher, Amsterdam 1687; Beinecke Lib. OSB MSS 1, ser. I, box 2, folder 64, [-] to Poley, 19 Aug. 1687; Morrice, Ent’ring Bk. iv. 233. mbr. SPCK 1700; Clarke and Foxcroft, 378. SPG. Chamberlayne, Magnae Britanniae Notitia (1707) p. 627.

FRS 1664.

Parlimentarian
BURNET, Gilbert (1643-1715)
Associated with: St James’ Palace 1698–1703; St John’ Court, Clerkenwell 1709–6.
Likenesses

oil on canvas by Mary Beale, c.1675, St Edmundsbury Museum, Suffolk; oil on canvas aft. J. Riley, c.1689-91, NPG 159; oil on canvas by Sarah Hoadly, aft. 1689, University of Aberdeen; oil on canvas by Sir G. Kneller, aft. 1689, National Trust, Wimpole Hall, Cambs.

Author
Townend, Graham
Handley, Stuart
Volume
Lords 1660-1715
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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