Sir Harry Burrard-Neale, 2nd Baronet

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Sir Harry Burrard-Neale (September 16, 1765 - February 7, 1840) was a British Member of Parliament for Lymington and became 2nd Baronet Burrard, of Walhampton, co. Southampton in 1791.

Burrard fought and distinguished himself in the Mutiny of the Nore in 1797. He held the office of Member of Parliament for Lymington between between 1790-1802, 1806-1807, 1812-1823, and 1832-1835 He gained the office of a Lord of the Admiralty between 1804 and 1807, and the rank of Admiral of the Royal Navy in 1810. He was invested as a Knight Commander and a Knight Grand Cross Order of the Bath in 1815 and 1822 respectively, then a Knight Grand Cross in the Order of St Michael and St George in 1824. In 1825, he became Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet of the Royal Navy

He died at age 74 and was buried in Lymington Church, Lymington, Hampshire, England.

Burrard Inlet was named in his honour by Captain George Vancouver in June 1792.

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George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume V, page 148.