and founded his legal practice, which managed his father's business. Septimus in 1824 married Charlotte Lydia Elizabeth Middleton, by whom he had one son, Arthur (b. 1830), who in 1860 married Lilian Margaret Robertson. Septimus lived at Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. He is buried at Chiswick. Octavia (b. 20 May 1796 - d. after March 1837) She married the banker Edmund Hopkinson, at Tonbridge in 1813, by whom she had no issue. Henry FRCP (27 February 1799 – 10 August 1849). Physician who discovered the Burton line. He in 1826 married Mary Elizabeth Poulton (1800 - 1829) at St. George's, Bloomsbury. Decimus FRS FRSA RA FSA FRIB (30 September 1800 – 14 December 1881). Architect. Alfred (18 June 1802 – 24 April 1877) JP, Mayor of Hastings, and manager of the Burton estates. He trained in architecture and worked as the secretary of Decimus Burton and to Thomas Wood (who was the husband of Jane Burton). In St. Leonards-on-Sea, Alfred Burton was Steward of the Races; President of the Mechanics Institute; Vice-President of the Infirmary; and Trustee of Hastings and Flimwell Turnpike. He was a member of the Queen's Royal St. Leonards Archers, and of the Oriental Club, to which he donated books and pictures, and to which his brother Decimus and nephew Henry Marley Burton made architectural additions. Alfred married Anna Delicia Adams in 1843. They had one son, Alfred Henry (1845–1917) of Hastings Lodge, JP who was High Sheriff of Sussex in 1902, who married Ellen Amelia Dickson, by whom he had four children, and one daughter Louisa Charlotte (1849–1873), who did not marry. Jessy (12 April 1804 – after 24 April 1844) Jessy, who lived in Regent's Park, married in 1833 John Peter Fearon (1804–1873), who was a lawyer of Great George Street, Westminster. She had 3 daughters: Jessy Tyndale (1834–1910); Constance Mary (1835–1915); and Ethel Anna (1839–1901) (who married and had issue with Thomas Ayscough); and one son, Francis (1837–1914) (who married Julia Mary Woodward, and had issue). Jessy's middle daughter, Constance Mary Fearon, was the founder of the Francis Bacon Society and author (under the pseudonym Mrs Henry Pott) of books that advocated that Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban was the author of the works that were ascribed to William Shakespeare. References Further reading 1762 births 1837 deaths 19th-century English businesspeople 19th-century English architects Real estate and property developers Neoclassical architecture in London