Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase
1822. _d._ Churchfield house, Fulham 23 March 1863. _Journal of
1084 words | Chapter 197
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_
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