Career
In addition, he was Secretary to the Lord Great Chamberlain, High Steward of Ipswich, and Chairman of Quarter Sessions, Suffolk. Burrell, succession to the title of 4th Baron Gwydyr, of Gwydyr, County Carnarvon occurred on 26 August 1870. Burrell was born at Langley Park, Beckenham.
He was the son of Lindsey Merrik Peter Burrell and Frances Daniell, and the grandson of Sir Peter Burrell, 1st Baron Gwydyr.
Burrell later married Georgina Holford in Gloucestershire on 8 May 1856 and they had one daughter, Honorary Cicely Burrell (born 2 January 1858).
Burrell lived at Stoke Park, Ipswich, and is buried at Street Mary Church, Belstead near Ipswich.