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- Long-time personal friend and doctor to the family of Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl St. Germans, and Lady Jemima Cornwallis.
--- 1841 census for Langley Grange Farm shows only Alice (aged 55, listed as Farmer) with Thomas (25), William (17), Emily (25), Harriet (19) and Ann (12).
* Father was a farmer.
--- Morning Post, 29 Apr 1907, page 2:
MR ALFRED BURTON, surgeon, of Park-place, St. James, and late of Dover-street, died on March 26, leaving a fortune of £52,108. He gave £2,000 each to his brothers Thomas and Henry, £1,500 to his brother William, £2,500 to his sister Harriet Elizabeth Ansted, £1,500 to his sister Emily Maria Leeds, £500 and the income from £10,000 to his sister Ann Mary Burton, £2,000 to his nephew Edward Ansted, £2,000 to the children of his brother Henry, £2,500 to his niece Mary Ansted, £1,500 to the children of his brother Thomas, and the residue to his nephew Alfred John Ansted.
("Clifton Society" 04 Apr 1907, page 6)
The funeral of Dr. Alfred Burton, Park-place, St. James's, took place on Saturday. The first part of the service was performed at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, and the interment at Brompton Cemetery. Among those who attended were the Earl and Countess of St. Germans, Lord Eliot, the Hon. John Eliot, the Dowager Countess of Bessborough, Lady May Ponsonby, the Countess of Bessborough, Lady Oranmore and Browne, Viscount Downe, the Hon. Henry and Mrs. Molyneux, the Hon. Mrs. Charles Eliot and the Misses Blanche and Evelyn Eliot, the Hon. Arthur Ponsonby, the Hon. Walter Ponsonby, Major Speed, Mr. Montague Guest, Mr. J. Congreve, Mr. and Mrs. Ansted and Mr. Alfred Ansted (nephew), Miss Burton (sister), Miss Ellen Young, Miss J. Ross, Miss Whatman, and Mr. Bryce Pearce. The service was conducted by Canon Edgar Sheppard, Sub-Dean of the Chapels Royal.
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