Person Burney; Charles (1757 - 1817) Burney Charles 1757 - 1817 British Male King's Lynn, Norfolk, England 04 December 1757 Deptford, Kent 28 December 1817

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 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) Fellow 25/02/1802 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 4 Dec 1757 - 28 Dec 1817 NA7423 21/11/2001 Andyg pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 3d06b5d7-89c0-4c38-944f-4d900110c9f9