Burnet, Thomas, Sir, 1694-1753

found: His Some new proofs, by which it appears that the Pretender is truly James the Third [MI] 1713(name not given)

found: Defoe, D. A letter to a merry young gentleman intitled Tho. Burnet, Esq. [MI] 1715.

found: 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)