Charles Burney ( 1757 - 1817 )

Birth: King's Lynn, Norfolk, England (04 December 1757) Death: 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 Membership: Fellow Election Date: 25/02/1802.