, whose father was a prominent professor, and Mary Anne Primrose whose son Marcus Cicero Stephens Noble was considered the premier educator at UNC in the late nineteenth century.University of NC at Chapel Hill was chartered in 1789. Many of its founding trustees lived in Hillsborough. Although women were not permitted to study at the university, there are Burwell School connections including Eliza North Mitchell , whose father was a prominent professor, and Mary Anne Primrose whose son Marcus Cicero Stephens Noble was considered the premier educator at UNC in the late nineteenth century.
Rufus Barringer; John Wilson Brodnax
William Michael Carrigan; Samuel Edward Chapman; Collier Cobb
Calvin Newton Morrow; William Dunn Moseley
Oliver Winfield Pearce; John Pool
Frederick Cox Roberts; Peter Browne Ruffin; William Kirkland Ruffin; Thomas Carter Ruffin [1]; Sterling Ruffin [2]; Thomas Ruffin [2], [Jr.]
Edwin Smith Sanders; Alfred Moore Scales; Charles Biddle Shepard; Archibald Aaron Tyson Smith; Edwin Sanders Smith; Richard Ivy Smith; Samuel Henry Smith; James Owen Stedman; John Madison Stedman; William S. Strudwick
Hugh D Waddell; Browne Ruffin Webb; Dr. James Webb; Clement Gillespie Wright