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unusual facts about Sir Thomas Burnett, 3rd Baronet



Alexander Burnett of Leys

Having died in 1619, the completion of the Muchalls Castle work was carried out by Alexander Burnett's son, Sir Thomas Burnett, 1st Baronet.

Digby Mackworth Dolben

His father, William Harcourt Isham Mackworth (1806—1872), a younger son of Sir Digby Mackworth, the 3rd Baronet, took the additional surname Dolben after he married Frances, the heiress of Sir John English Dolben, the 4th Baronet.

Sir Thomas Burnett, 1st Baronet

His continued love of his Alma Mater, notwithstanding its prelatic leanings, is shown by his endowment, in October 1648, of three Bursaries of Philosophy in King's College.

Sir Thomas Burnett, 3rd Baronet

He opposed the proposal of making an addition to the standing army, which parliament adopted; and in the same parliament, during the discussions regarding the colony of New Caledonia in Darién Province, when the question was raised whether the Company's right should be made the subject of an address to the King or of an Act of Parliament, and the former alternative was carried by a majority of 108 to 84, Sir Thomas Burnett was one of the dissenters and protestors.


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