| Authorised form of name | Burney; Charles (1757 - 1817) |
| Dates | 1757 - 1817 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | King's Lynn, Norfolk, England |
| Date of birth | 04 December 1757 |
| Place of death | Deptford, Kent |
| Date of death | 28 December 1817 |
| Activity | Education:
Charterhouse School; Caius College, Cambridge; MA (1781) King's College Aberdeen; LLD (Aberdeen); LLD (1792, Glasgow); MA (1808, Cambridge); DD (1812, from Archbishop of Canterbury?)
Career:
School master, Highgate and Chiswick; opened his own school, Hammersmith (1786); moved to a school at Greenwich (1793); took Holy Orders; appointed to the Rectory of Cliffe, Kent, and of St Paul's Deptford; Chaplain to the King; Prebend of Lincoln; wrote on the Greek Classics; his collection of books was purchased for the nation for £13,500, in the British Museum as the Burney Collection (13,000 printed works); died of apoplexy
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 25/02/1802 |
| Relationships | Son of Charles Burney (FRS 1773), the music historian; brother of Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay), and of James Burney (FRS 1809); father of Charles Parr Burney (FRS 1814) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB |
| Code | NA7423 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| CB/1/2/198 | Letter from Charles Burney, The Rectory, Deptford to Charles Blagden | 24 May 1816 |
| IM/000683 | Burney, Charles | nd |
| EC/1801/19 | Burney, Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |