Daniel Higford Davall Burr
Daniel Higford Davall Burr JP DL (24 March 1811 – 29 November 1885) was a British Member of Parliament and Justice of the Peace. Biography Burr was born to Daniel Burr (a lieutenant colonel with the East India Company) and Mary Davis. His maternal grandfather was James Davis. His maternal lineage also included Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. On 1 February 1836, Burr's mother died and he inherited the estate of Alvington, Gloucestershire. The following year, he became Conservative Member of Parliament for Hereford, a position he held for four years. 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. 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. In 1851, Burr became High Sheriff of Berkshire. Landholdings In 1883 John Bateman in his digest of the Return of Owners of Land, 1873, The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland, listed Burr's lands as follows: Gloucestershire 1,200