GODWIN DIARY: 6.4.1796 at Stoddart's / 25.6.1796 meet Carr & Burrel, call on Stoddart / 29.7.1796 Montagu's adv Tobin, Matthews & Burrel / 10.1.1797 sup at Carr's with Turner, Burrel, Bell & Littledale / 6.2.1797 Tobin's, with Holcroft. White & Burrel adv Matthews / 12.4.1797 meet Burrel / 21.4.1797 Tobin & Burrel call / 15.6.1797 Burrel adv at Holcroft's / 1.7.1797 Burrel dines with Godwin / 8.11.1797 adv at Holcroft's / 18.3.1798 again / 19.5.1798 adv at theatre / 17.6.1798 meet / 8.7.1798 at Holcrofts with Foulkes 9.12.1798 at Holcrofts with Foulkes & Spurling / 23.2.1799 at Mackintosh's lecture / 2.3.1799 again / 24.5.1799 meet Stodart & Burrel / 25.3.1800 meet / 30.4.1800 meet / 21.6.1801 meet Burrel & J Tobin / 23.6.1801 Tobin's with Davy, Maton & Burrel / 8.3.1802 at Fuseli's lecture / 23.3.1802 at Davy's lecture / 19.3.1804 adv at Tobin's with Grenow / 12.3.1805 meet Burrel & Wordsworth / 2.5.1809 Lofft & mrs Taylor dine; adv. R(ichard) T(aylor) & miss Burrel / 4.9.1814 miss Burrel at Sarah Elwes' / 9.12.1815 Burrel at Alsager's with H Robinson / 10.2.1816 sup at Alsager's with Hazlitt, H Robinson & Burrell / 27.9.1816 mrs Burrel at Sarah Elwes' / 2.10.1816 mrs Burrel & Sarah Elwes dine at the Godwins'
CRABB ROBINSON DIARY: Robinson made a friendship with Burrell based partly on their both having been enthusiastic radicals and both having changed their views (Morley p115). 11.6.1813 Burrell warned Robinson who was just beginning his career at the bar, that he had been at the bar 8 years and still had no practise. On 21.11.1821 "I went with Burrell to Aders" "A musical company - much fine musick which I could not comprehend and some that I enjoyed sincerely. We staid to supper and Burrell who took a slight part in the performances of the Evening thanked me as we parted for the introduction, but how he or they in fact like each other I cannot tell". On 12.12.1821 re: Nicolas Mori (DNB 1796/7-1839) musician "Burrel says he is only a fine performer and stops short of genius and is not to be compared with Philippi (right name?)" and on 23.1.1822 Burrell was at the Aders along with "musical people"
Like the entries of 1815 and 1816 at Alsager's in Godwin's diary above (which correspond with HCR diary, Morley pp178-9), this cannot have been Henry Burrell the barrister, who died in 1814. though Burrell is referred to as a barrister in notes to Hazlitt's Works vol 3 p296. The only other barrister it could have been was John Palfrey Burrell, youngest son of Palfrey George Burrell of Alnwick, Northumberland (will PCC 1820). He was admitted Grays Inn 1795, called to bar 1805, police magistrate 1833-1851, died unmarried 11.7.1859 age 86 (Boase, Morning Post 15.7.1859). He was criticised by the Morning Chronicle in 1847 for signing a warrant for felony against a 5 year old boy. He edited (1849) a book of reports from the battle of Waterloo. I have found no evidence to connect him with an earlier radicalism or with musical interests. Godwin often saw Burrell at lectures and Burrell was said to have edited one of Hazlitt's lectures for him (Morley p60).
Since John Palfrey Burrell never married, and his mother died in 1802, and his father's will 1820 mentioned no daughters, I think that Miss and Mrs Burrell in Godwin's diary were not his relations.
Henry B barrister Lincolns Inn PCC 1814 / William B of Bloomspark Northumberland, JP PCC 1850, married Eleanor Forster in Northumberland in 1804. these two were brothers. T Burrell subscribed to Norwich Public Library in 1796. George Burrell librarian of Liverpool Athenaeum 1809, 1822.