On 1 February 1836, Burr's mother died[1] and he inherited the estate of Alvington, Gloucestershire.[2]
The following year, he became Conservative Member of Parliament for Hereford, a position he held for four years.[1] He was a member of the Carlton Club.
In 1849, Burr purchased Aldermaston Court, a country estate in Aldermaston, Berkshire, that had been destroyed by fire six years previously.[3] He commissioned Philip Charles Hardwick to build a neoclassical mansion. Burr was an eccentric, and owned monkeys and snakes. His monkey was known to climb the maypole on the village green.[4]
Gloucestershire 1,200 acres worth 2,200 guineas per annum;
Berkshire [Aldermaston] 2,778 acres worth 3,054 guineas per annum (with 51 acres in Hampshire worth 37 guineas per annum);
Herefordshire 500 acres worth 750 guineas per annum;
Monmouthshire 6 acres worth 12 guineas per annum.
Total 4,535 acres, with a rental value of 6,053 guineas per annum.
Personal life
Burr married Anne-Margaretta Scobell, an amateur watercolour artist, on 18 September 1839 at St Marylebone Parish Church.[5] They had four sons – Higford (b. 20 July 1840), Edward (b. 25 September 1842), James Scudamore (b. 15 January 1854).[1] and Arthur Scudamore (b. 21 June 1857).
Burr died on 29 November 1885. The Aldermaston estate was occupied by his son Higford for a short while, before he sold it to Charles Edward Keyser in 1893.
Burr's family's coat of arms included a golden rampant lion, with a crest inscribed with "Ternate" – the IndonesianMaluku Island captured by his father in 1801.[1][6] The family's motto was versus veras honos – literally "virtue, truth, honour".[1]
^Currie, CRJ; Herbert, NM, eds. (1996). "Alvington: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean". A History of the County of Gloucester. Vol. 5. pp. 5–14.
