Peter Burrell I

London merchant and government contractor, MP for Haslemere 1722-1754 and then briefly for Dover 1755-1756, Director of the South Sea Company 1724-1733 and sub-Governor 1736-1756. During Burrell's time in office, the South Sea Company was active in the slave-trade under the Asiento and allegedly complicit in the illegal slave-trade from Jamaica.

https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/burrell-peter-1692-1756. His son, also a director of the South Sea Company 1763-1775 and MP for Haslemere 1768-1774, has an entry in the ODNB as 'antiquary', Farrant, John H. "Burrell, Sir William, second baronet (1732–1796), antiquary." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 23 Sep. 2004; Accessed 19 Jan. 2020. https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-4102; Harry Reibman 'Private Profits and the South Sea Company: Illicit Traffickin Under the Asiento', Michigan Journal of History Fall 2012 Edition, https://michiganjournalhistory.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/fall-12-reibman.pdf [accessed 19/01/2020].