William Burton, Esq. 1818, County Carlow, Ireland

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WILLIAM BURTON, ESQ. 1818, COUNTY CARLOW, IRELAND

No. 13. Vol. 1. MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1818 [The Carlow Morning Post]

DIED – A few days ago in Dublin, WILLIAM BURTON, Esq., the well-
known, and highly respectable proprietor of Burton hall, the
hospitality of which has been proverbial for centuries back. Mr. B.
represented the County Carlow, in seven or eight Parliaments; and
uniformly proved himself the steady friend of his County. His humane
dispositions, like the principles which excited them were boundless
as the ocean – they flowed continually through the several channels
of private Friendship, public Charity, and secret Beneficence. For
upwards of 60 years his daily occupations were to feed the hungry –
clothe the naked – shelter the houseless, and succour the oppressed
amongst his fellow-creatures : he made himself a Debtor to pay the
debts of others, and honourably entered into those obligations which
his rigid sense of Justice demanded, but which Law could not
enforce. During his whole life, which Providence ordained should be
a long one, he never swerved in a single instance that we can
recollect, to have heard of, from the maxim expressed by his own
Motto – TRUTH and HONOR. Mr. BURTON’S remains were, on Saturday
last, deposited in the Family Vault, at Rutland Church, attended by
all the respectable Inhabitants of this TOWN – an immense crowd of
his tenantry, and the neighbouring poor, who had for years been
objects of his bounty.