BURRELL, Lord Gwydyr, Willoughby Merrick Campbell
Willoughby Merrik Campbell Burrell was born at Stoke Park, Ipswich on 26 October 1841, only son of Peter Robert Burrell, 4th Baron Gwydyr (27 April 1810-3 April 1909), High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1858, Secretary to the Lord Great Chamberlain, High Steward of Ipswich, and Chairman of Suffolk Quarter Sessions, and his first wife Sophia, only child of Frederick William Campbell of Barbreck, who married at Stoke Park, Ipswich on 10 December 1840, she died three years later. He had a half-sister Cicely Burrell (2 January 1858-28 March 1936) from his father's second marriage to Georgina Holford on 8 May 1856. Willoughby was educated at Eton and on 1 June 1860, joined the Army (by purchase) as an Ensign in the Rifle Brigade, rising to the rank of Captain and later was Honorary Colonel in the 4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. On 3 April 1909, Burrell succeeded as 5th Baron Gwydyr, of Gwydr, County Carnarvon. He married firstly at the British Embassy, Paris, on 4 September 1873, Mary Bankes, only daughter of Sir John Bankes, she died on 26 June 1898 after having three children; Catherine Mary Sermonda (Henniker-Heaton), Randulphus Clement Robert Burrell (1876–1882) and John Percy Burrell (1878–1902), who was unmarried. Willoughby Burrell married 2ndly at St Michael's Chester Square, London on 4 June 1901, Anne Ord (died 12 May 1910), daughter of John Ord but had no further children. Burrell lived at Stoke Park, Ipswich and was a member and president of the Ipswich Art Club in 1912 but did not exhibit. Willoughby Merrik Campbell Burrell, Lord Gwydyr, died in London on 13 February 1915 and buried in Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey when the Barony of Gwydyr, created in 1796, became extinct.