BURROW, SIR JAMES, master of the Crown-office, was born in 1701. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society and of the Society of Arts in 1751: and on the death of Mr West in 1772, he filled the president's chair at the Royal Society till the anniversary election, when he resigned it to Sir John Pringle. In 1773, when the society presented an address to His Majesty, he received the honour of knighthood. He published two volumes of valuable law reports in 1766; two others in 1771 and 1776; and a volume of decisions of the court of king's bench upon settlement cases from 1732 to 1772, to which was subjoined an Essay of Punctuation, in three parts, 4to, 1768, 1772, 1776. The Essay was also printed separately in 4to, 1773. He published, without his name, a few Anecdotes and Observations relating to Oliver Cromwell and his family, serving to rectify several errors concerning him, published by Nicol. Comm. Papadopoli, in his Historia Gymnasii Patacini, 1763, 4to. Sir James died in 1782.