connected with Mount Radford and of his removal_ 1828.
BURROWES, JOHN FRECKLETON. _b._ London 23 April 1787; pupil of
William Horsley, organist; organist of St. James’s church,
Piccadilly, London about 1815 to death; an original member of
Philharmonic Society 1813; author of _The pianoforte primer
containing the rudiments of music_ 1818, _48 ed._ 1862; _Thorough
bass primer_ 1819, _37 ed._ 1871; _A companion to the thorough
bass primer_ 1832. _d._ 13 Nottingham place, New road, London 31
March 1852.
BURROWES, ROBERT. _b._ Dublin 19 March 1810; sheriff of Cavan 1838;
M.P. for co. Cavan 13 April 1855 to 21 March 1857. _d._ Stradone
house, Cavan 30 Nov. 1881.
BURROWS. Sir John Cordy (_eld. son of Robert Burrows of Ipswich,
silversmith_). _b._ Ipswich 5 Aug. 1813; M.R.C.S. 1836, F.R.C.S.
1852; practised at Brighton 1839 to death; projected Royal
literary and scientific institution 1841, secretary 1841–57; mayor
of Brighton 1857–9 and 1871–2; knighted at Osborne 5 Feb. 1873; a
very great benefactor to town of Brighton. _d._ 62 Old Steyne,
Brighton 25 March 1876. Statue of him in grounds of Royal Pavilion
unveiled 14 Feb. 1878. _Lancet i_, 515, 548 (1876); _I.L.N. lxii_,
191 (1873), _portrait, lxviii_, 335 (1876), _lxxii_, 173 (1878).
BURSLEM, CHARLES. _b._ Manchester; a journalist; assistant editor of
the _North Eastern Daily Gazette_ some years; author of several
serial tales in provincial journals; author of several successful
pantomimes and of a farce entitled _Third floor lodgers_ produced
at Gaiety theatre West Hartlepool. _d._ Manchester Jany. 1886 aged
28.
BURSTAL, EDWARD. _b._ Devonport 1 Feb. 1818; entered navy Dec. 1832;
commander 29 Sep. 1855; assisted in laying down first submarine
telegraph cable between Dover and Calais 1852; laid cable from
Orfordness to the Hague; secretary to conservators of river Thames
1857 to death; a member of Thames Embankment and other royal
commissions; retired captain 29 Sep. 1870; F.R.G.S. 1857. _d._
Ramsgate 13 July 1886.
BURT, SIR ARCHIBALD PAUL (_2 son of George Henry Burt, speaker of
house of assembly St. Christopher, West Indies_). _b._ St.
Christopher 1810; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; attorney general of
St. Christopher 1849–60, member of legislative and executive
councils, speaker of house of assembly; comr. of civil court in
Western Australia July 1860, chief justice there 1861 to death;
knighted at Windsor Castle 12 Dec. 1873. _d._ Strawberry hill,
Perth, Western Australia 21 Nov. 1879.
BURTON, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM DESART. _b._ 1827; ensign 82 foot 8 Aug.
1845; major 7 dragoon guards 17 Sep. 1857 to 1863; C.B. 5 July