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    Charles Burney FRS (born Lynn Regis, now King's Lynn, Norfolk, 4 December 1757, died at Deptford, then in Kent, 28 December 1817) was an English classical...
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  • father of the below Charles Burney (Archdeacon of Kingston) (died 1907), Anglican priest, son of the above Charles Burney (schoolmaster) (1757–1817), English...
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  • portal Charles Parr Burney (1786–1864) was an Anglican archdeacon in the middle of the nineteenth century. The son of Charles Burney (schoolmaster), and...
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    Berdmore D.D. (29 May 1739 – 20 January 1802) was an English cleric, schoolmaster, and author, master of Charterhouse School from 1769. He was the son...
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  • Cambridge, where he died. Kidd was an intimate friend of Richard Porson and Charles Burney the younger. He contributed largely to periodicals, chiefly on classical...
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  • boys gain at one end they lose at the other." Among Rose's pupils was Charles Burney the younger, who married his daughter Sarah. Among his friends was Bishop...
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    Charterhouse School on 7 June 1791, in succession to Samuel Berdmore: Charles Burney was one of his competitors. Here he remained till his death. In 1803...
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    antiquarian and schoolmaster who was headmaster of Ruthin School, Denbighshire for 26 years. Edward Barnwell was the third son of Charles Frederick Barnwell...
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    Samuel Parr (26 January 1747 – 6 March 1825), was an English schoolmaster, writer, minister and Doctor of Law. He was known in his time for political writing...
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    performed his operas in Parma. On 2 September 1771 Charles Burney visited Gluck, living in Sankt Marx. Burney thought Gluck's preface, in which Gluck gives...
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    William Belsham (1752–1827), political writer and historian Charles Burney (1757–1817), schoolmaster Caroline of Brunswick (1768–1821), princess and Queen Consort...
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    gout, and his remaining friends, including novelist Fanny Burney (the daughter of Charles Burney), came to keep him company. He was confined to his room...
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  • (1930–2017), photographer Malcolm Erskine, 17th Earl of Buchan (1930-2022) Charles A. Burney (born 1930), archaeologist Sir Thomas Hare, 5th Baronet (1930–1993)...
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    1808 Wesley visited Charles Burney in his rooms in Chelsea where he played for him from the copy of Book I of the '48' that Burney had received from C...
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    children before his death in 1787. Sidney went on to work with schoolmaster Charles Burney, managing his schools. In 1804, Anna Seward published a book...
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  • William Hayward Roberts (baptised 1734 – 1791) was an English born schoolmaster, poet and biblical critic, cleric and Provost of Eton College. He was born...
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  • English diplomat Ivan Bunin (1870–1953), Russian/Soviet novelist Fanny Burney (1752–1840), English novelist, playwright and biographer Richard Burton...
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    1808 Wesley visited Charles Burney in his rooms in Chelsea where he played for him from the copy of Book I of the '48' that Burney had received from C...
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  • classical scholar, archeologist and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge Charles Burney FRS (1726–1814), musician, composer, music historian John Burrell (1910–1972)...
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  • Center. p. 276. ISBN 9780674002470. Elizabeth Blower – George Bateman Fanny Burney (anonymously) – Cecilia J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur – Letters from an...
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    his fame and made large profits, thus becoming financially secure. Charles Burney reviewed the first concert thus: "Haydn himself presided at the piano-forte;...
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    settlers from the Beara Peninsula in County Cork, Ireland; his father was a schoolmaster. One of his brothers, James Sullivan, became governor of Massachusetts...
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    1620–1854, McFarland, 2011, p. 14., ISBN 978-0-786464-96-8 Adams, D. Jr., Charles F., Wessagusset and Weymouth, Nabu Press, pp. 24–26, ISBN 978-1-248636-92-3...
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    perpetual Fellow 5 April 1847: Dean of Chichester Cathedral. The Rev. Charles Fox Burney – Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture from 1914...
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    in Birmingham on 8 February 1880, the eldest son of Henry Hobbiss, a schoolmaster and later a lecturer in a teaching college, and his wife, Alice.[citation...
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    Schoolmaster ... Detected, 1788, 8vo. Shebbeare died on 1 Aug. 1788 in Eaton Street, Pimlico. He married young and unhappily. He was quoted by Burney...
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    located at Belfast Harlequins on the Malone Road. The boys' 1st XI were the Burney Cup winners in 1999 with the cup being presented to the team by Ulster Branch...
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    Theodosia and Harriett Abrams were listed as main female singers in Charles Burney's An Account of the Musical Performances in Commemoration of Handel....
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    punishment". This may have owed something to the example of an earlier Belfast schoolmaster whose portrait was to hang in the new institution, David Manson. As recounted...
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  • Group Commander Algernon Yelverton, 6th Viscount Avonmore, Irish nobleman Burney's Academy Eastman’s Royal Naval Academy Notes Even possessing a single sanatorium...
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