Record ID:
35023943 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 85294599
Heading:
Corporate body details:
  • Sir
Birth:
  • 1694-02-19
  • London (England)
Death:
  • 1753-01-08
  • London (England)
Associated with:
  • Great Britain Leiden (Netherlands) Lisbon (Portugal)
Fields of activity:
  • Law Diplomacy
Occupations:
  • Judges Consuls
Used for:
  • Burnet, Tho. (Thomas),, Sir, 1694-1753
  • Burnett, Thomas,, Sir, 1694-1753
Notes:
  • His Some new proofs, by which it appears that the Pretender is truly James the Third [MI] 1713 (name not given)
  • DNB (Burnet, Sir Thomas, 1694-1753; judge)
  • Halkett & Laing (Sir Thomas Burnet)
  • CSt/G-K files (usage: Thomas Burnett, Esq.)
  • Defoe, D. A letter to a merry young gentleman intitled Tho. Burnet, Esq. [MI] 1715.
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online, viewed 30 June 2016 (Burnet, Sir Thomas (1694-1753), judge, born in London on 19 February 1694; on 12 November 1705 he entered Merton College, Oxford, and in 1707 went on to the University of Leiden, where he remained until 1710; in 1719 he was appointed British consul at Lisbon, and he remained there for eight years; in 1728 Burnet returned to England and he was called to the bar and admitted to a chamber at the Middle Temple in February 1729; he became a serjeant-at-law in 1736, and received a patent as king's serjeant in 1740; in 1741 he was promoted to the bench of the Court of common pleas; he was knighted at the time of the 1745 rebellion; he died on 8 January 1753 at his house in Lincoln's Inn Fields and was buried at St James's Church in Clerkenwell)
Local system number:
  • 000000024063
  • abv00066433
Cataloguing source:
  • CSt eng rda DLC DLC OCoLC DLC Uk