Sidney Gerald Burrard

Sir Sidney Gerald Burrard, 7th Baronet,

Burrard was born on the Isle of Wight in a family of eminence, his father being Lieutenant-Colonel Sidney Burrard of the Grenadier Guards. Their home at The Mount had been built by his grandfather, The Reverend Sir George Burrard. He was educated at school in Lymington and then Uppingham School from 1873 where he showed his mathematical talents. In 1874 he moved to Wellington College where again he excelled at mathematics which led his father to decide that he was suited for the Royal Engineers.

Career

He received a commission in the Royal Engineers on 6 April 1879 and trained at the

In 1884 he joined the

In 1887 Burrard married Gertrude Ellen the daughter of the Superintendent of the Trigonometrical Survey, Major-General C.T. Haig. Burrard went on furlough in 1890 to England where his wife, an artist, spent time to study painting. During this time Burrard worked on a family genealogy.[1]

Burrard later worked at a tidal observatory on the Red Sea. In 1899 he was appointed Superintendent of the Trigonometrical Survey and became a Surveyor General in 1908. He was made a

He left India in 1919 and retired to Farnborough. Lady Burrard died in 1928.

He succeeded his cousin as the 7th baronet on 1933 and in 1935 he married Alice Simons but she died in 1938. They had a son and a daughter. The son, later Major Sir Gerald Burrard (1888 – 1965) was a specialist on firearms and was involved in the creation of the Firearms Act 1936.

Depressed and with a weakening eyesight, Burrard died in 1943.^[1]

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