Onslow Burrish


Onslow Burrish was a British envoy in the Low Countries and Germany.

Career

Burrish was appointed "to be his Majesty's Resident at the Court of Brussels, and also at that of Liège" in 1743. Afterwards he was Minister to Bavaria 1745–58 and concurrently to Baden-Baden and Baden-Durlach, and to Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Cologne and Hesse-Cassel. Later he was sent to Regensburg as part of Lord Newcastle's effort to secure the election of Maria Theresa's son, the future Emperor Joseph II, as King of the Romans in order to keep that title in the control of Britain's ally Austria.

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