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Burnet, Alexander, 1735-1802

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Personal name headingBurnet, Alexander, 1735-1802
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Variant(s)Burnet, Alexander, d. 1802
Burnett, Alexander, 1735-1802
Associated countryScotland Great Britain
Associated placeBerlin (Germany)
Birth date1735-07-03
Death date1802-12-30
Profession or occupationDiplomats
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Found inHis Alexander Burnet, chargé des affaires for the court of Great Britain at the court of Berlin, 1766.
Burke, B. Genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, 1898: p. 204 (Burnett, Alexander, of Kemnay, long British Secretary of Embassy, and for a short time chargé d'affaires at the Court of Berlin, d. 1802)
Burnett, G. The family of Burnett of Leys, with collateral branches, 1901: p. 127-128 (Alexander Burnett of Kemnay; born 3rd July 1735; succeeded his father in 1780; in 1756, when Mr. Mitchell of Thainston (afterwards Sir Andrew) was appointed Ambassador to the Prussiian Courts, he went abroad with him as Secretary; after Mitchell's death remained for a year at Berlin as Chargé d'Affaires; he died 30th December 1802)
Associated languageeng ger