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.Burke's Peerage, 2003, vol. 3, p. 4129 Walter Nugent was a descendant of the Barons Delvin, later created Earls of Westmeath.A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, Sir Bernard Burke, 1868, p. 1164
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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