Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

Royal Geog. Soc. xxxiii_, 124 (1864). BURCHETT, RICHARD. _b._ Brighton 30 Jany. 1815; entered school of design at Somerset House about 1841, assistant master 1845, head master 1851 to death; exhibited 5 historical pictures at Royal Academy 1847–73; assisted in decoration of dome of Great Exhibition 1862; author of _Practical geometry_ 1855; _Linear perspective_ 1856. _d._ Dublin 27 May 1875. _Graphic xi_, 606, 621 (1875), _portrait_. BURDEN, HENRY. _b._ Dunblane, Scotland 1791; went to America 1819; maker of agricultural implements; invented the first cultivator 1820; invented a machine for making hook-headed spikes 1840, which are used on every railroad in United States; devised a machine for making horseshoes June 1857 which is self-acting, and produces 60 shoes per minute from iron bars. _d._ Woodside Troy, New York 19 Jany. 1871. BURDER, REV. GEORGE BERNARD (_son of Rev. George Burder 1752–1832, editor of Evangelical magazine_). ed. at Magd. coll. Ox.; C. of Ruardean, Gloucs.; received into Church of Rome at Oscott college 24 Jany. 1846; ordained priest; joined the Cistercians at Mount St. Bernard’s abbey, Leics. where he filled offices of sub-prior, prior, and abbot; author of the following translations from the French _The souls in purgatory by Bouguets_ 1873; _The consoler by Lambilotte_ 1873; _St. Bernard and his work by Caussette_ 1874; _Confidence in the mercy of God by Languet de Villeneuve de Gergy_ 1876; _The Christian life and virtues considered in the religious state by C. Gay_ 1878. _d._ 26 Sep. 1881. BURDER, REV. HENRY FORSTER (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Coventry 27 Nov. 1783; ed. at Hoxton academy and Glasgow Univ.; assistant minister at Independent chapel St. Thomas sq. Hackney 31 Oct. 1811, minister 2 March 1814 to 1852; professor of philosophy and mathematics at Hoxton college 1810–30; chairman of Congregational union of England and Wales 1844; author of _Mental discipline or hints on the cultivation of intellectual and moral habits_ 1822; _A collection of psalms and hymns_ 1826, _3 ed._ 1845 and other books. _d._ Hatcham park, Surrey 29 Dec. 1864. _Evangelical Mag. March 1865 pp._ 129–34. BURDER, WILLIAM CORBETT (_son of Rev. John Burder_). _b._ Stroud, Gloucs. 30 Oct. 1822; connected as a meteorologist with Glaisher’s corps of observers; discovered 2 new comets 28 March 1854 and 30 June 1861; author of _A motto or apophthegm for every day in the year selected by W.C.B._ 1859; _The meteorology of Clifton_ 1863; published with J. Hine and W. Godwin _The architectural antiquities of Bristol and its neighbourhood_ 1851. _d._ Clifton 16 Oct. 1865. BURDETT, SIR ROBERT, 2 Baronet. _b._ Piccadilly 26 April 1796; major 10th hussars 11 Oct. 1827 to 8 March 1831, when placed on h.p.; retired from army 1846; succeeded 23 Jany. 1844; sheriff of Derbyshire 1848. _d._ G. 2 Albany, Piccadilly, London 7 June 1880. Personalty sworn under £300,000 4 Sep. 1880. BURFORD, ROBERT. _b._ 1791; exhibited 4 landscapes at Royal Academy 1812–16; exhibited panoramas with H. A. Barker on site of present Strand theatre to 1827 when he moved to Leicester square, where he exhibited a succession of panoramas of chief places of interest in Europe. _d._ 35 Camden road villas, London 30 Jany. 1861. _T. Taylor’s Leicester Square_ (1874) 467–71. BURGES, REV. GEORGE. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1787; V. of Halvergate, Norfolk 1812 to death; V. of Moulton, Norfolk 1813 to death; author of _An address to the people of Great Britain_ 1798; _Remarks on the leading arguments in favour of Catholic emancipation 1812_, _2 ed._ 1813; _Reflections on the nature and tendency of the present spirit of the times in a letter to the freeholders of Norfolk_ 1819, _2 ed._ 1820. _d._ Whittlesea 24 Jany. 1853 aged 89. NOTE.—In Watt’s Bibliotheca Britannica the classical publications of George Burges, M.A., of Trin. coll. Cam., who _d._ 11 Jany. 1864, are erroneously added to those of the Rev. George Burges. BURGES, GEORGE. _b._ Bengal about 1786; ed. at Charter house and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar 1803, B.A. 1807; M.A. 1810; started two coaches which plied up and down the New Road London; constructed a machine for aerial conveyance of passengers from Dover to Calais; maker of a new kind of stays called ‘corsets à la Vénus’; gave a series of public lectures upon ancient and modern literature; kept a lodging house at Ramsgate 1856 to death; granted civil list pension of £100 per annum 7 June 1841; author of a play in 5 acts called _The son of Erin or the cause of the Greeks by an Asiatic liberal_ 1823; published the _Troades of Euripides_ 1807 and the _Phœnissæ_ 1809; the _Supplices and Prometheus of Æschylus_ 1831 and other classical works. _d._ Ramsgate 11 Jany. 1864 aged 78. BURGES, WILLIAM (_son of Wm. Burges of London, civil engineer_). _b._ 2 Dec. 1827; ed. at King’s coll. London 1839–44; pupil of Edward Blore, architect 1844–9; gained first award in international competition for Lille cathedral 1856; Cantor lecturer at Society of Arts 1862; designed cathedral at Brisbane, Queensland 1859, cathedral at Cork 1862; rebuilt Cardiff Castle 1865; prepared designs for new law courts in Strand, London; F.R.I.B.A. 1860, A.R.A. 28 Jany. 1881; author of _Art applied to industry, a series of lectures_ 1865; _Architectural drawings with descriptive letterpress_ 1870. _d._ 9 Melbury road, Kensington, London 20 April 1881. _Trans. of Royal Instit. of British Architects_ (1882) 17–30, 183–95; _I.L.N. lxxviii_, 429 (1881), _portrait_; _Graphic xxiii_, 456 (1881), _portrait_. BURGESS, REV. HENRY. _b._ 1808; ed. at Stepney college; LLD. Glasgow 1851; Ph.D. Gottingen 1852; P.C. of Clifton Reynes, Bucks. 1854–61; V. of St. Andrew, Whittlesea, Cambs. 1861 to death; edited _Journal of sacred literature_ 1848; _Clerical journal_ 1854–68; author of _Poems_ 1850; _Select metrical hymns and homilies of Ephraem translated_ 1853; _The festal epistles of St. Athanasius translated from the Syriac_ 1852. _d._ 10 Feb. 1886. BURGESS, JOHN CART. _b._ 1798; painter of flowers and fruit in water colours; exhibited 31 pictures at the R.A., 7 at the B.I., and 15 at Suffolk st. gallery 1812–37; taught painting in London; author of _A practical essay on the art of flower painting_ 1811; _An easy introduction to perspective_, _6 ed._ 1835. _d._ Leamington 20 Feb. 1863. BURGESS, JOSEPH TOM. _b._ Cheshunt, Herts. 1828; reporter on _Leicester Journal_ 1844; edited _Clare Journal_ at Ennis; edited _Bury Guardian_ 7 years; _Leamington Spa Courier_ 1865–78; _Barrow’s Worcester Journal_ 5 years; F.S.A. 1 June 1876; author of _Life scenes and social sketches_ 1862; _Old English wild flowers_ 1868; _Harry Hope’s holidays_ 1871; _Historic Warwickshire_ 1876; _A handbook to the cathedral of Worcester_