Family
He married several times, once to Lady Margaret Kennedy, daughter of John Kennedy, 6th Earl of Cassilis. His sons included William Burnet and Gilbert Burnet. His daughter Elizabeth married Richard West a distinguished lawyer who became Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and was the mother of Richard West the younger, the poet and friend of Thomas Gray.
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Famous quotes containing the word family:
“The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.”
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“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.”
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