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)