of one Robert Mann. Later life On the death of Sir Samuel Dodd, Bury was raised by King George I to be Chief Baron of the Exchequer 10 June 1716. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1718. He died on 4 May 1722, suddenly, having been engaged in the discharge of his judicial duties until within a few hours of his death. He was buried, with a handsome tomb, in the parish church of Grantham, Lincolnshire. He never married and left no issue, and his estates at Irby, near Wainfleet, passed to his grandnephew, William Bury, of Lyndwood Grange, Lincolnshire. There is a portrait of him, engraved in mezzotint by Smith, after a picture by J. Richardson dated 1720. References 1655 births 1722 deaths People from Lincoln, England Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford Members of Gray's Inn 17th-century English lawyers 18th-century English judges Fellows of the Royal Society Serjeants-at-law (England) Barons of the Exchequer