Burnell-Nugent is a compound surname formed from combining Burnell and Nugent, arising from the 1905 marriage of Frank Burnell-Nugent (né Nugent) and Ellen Burnell. Frank Burnell-Nugent was the son of Albert Llewellyn Nugent, 3rd Baron Nugent, whose father, Walter, had been created a Baron of Austria in 1859.[1] Walter Nugent was a descendant of the Barons Delvin, later created Earls of Westmeath.[2]
Notable people with the surname include:
- Frank Burnell-Nugent (1880–1942), British Army officer and an English cricketer
- James Burnell-Nugent (born 1949), British Commander-in-Chief Fleet of the Royal Navy
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