BURTON, REV. CHARLES (_youngest son of Daniel Burton of Rhodes hall,
Middleton, Lancs. cotton manufacturer_). _b._ Rhodes hall 18 Jany.
1793; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow and St. John’s coll. Cam., L.L.B.
Cam. 1822, B.C.L. and D.C.L. Ox. 1829; Wesleyan minister; built
church of All Saints, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Manchester at cost of
£18,000, R. of All Saints 1820 to death, greater part of church
was destroyed by fire 6 Feb. 1850; F.L.S. for discovering in
Anglesea a plant new to science; author of _Horæ, Poeticæ_ 1815;
_The Bardiad, a poem in two cantos_ 1823, _2 ed._ 1823; _Lectures
on the Millenium_ 1841; _Lectures on the world before the flood_
1844; _Lectures on Popery_ 1851 and about 15 other books. _d._
Western lodge, Durham 6 Sep. 1866. _Evans’s Lancashire authors and
orators_ (1850) 47–51.
BURTON, CHARLES EDWARD (_son of Rev. Edward Wm. Burton, B. of
Rathmichael, co. Dublin_). _b._ Barnton, Cheshire 16 Sep. 1846;
assistant in Lord Rosse’s observatory at Parsonstown 1868–9; B.A.
Dublin 1868; joined Sicilian expedition to observe total solar
eclipse of 22 Dec. 1870; photographer to transit of Venus
expedition 1874; worked at observatory of Dunsink near Dublin
1876–8; devised with Howard Grubb the ‘ghost micrometer’ described
before Royal Dublin Society 15 Nov. 1880; F.R.A.S. 8 May 1874;
author of numerous papers in scientific periodicals. _d._ Castle
Knock church 9 July 1882. _Astronomical Register xx_, 173–4
(1883).
BURTON, DECIMUS (_10 son of James Burton of London, builder_). _b._
30 Sep. 1800; architect in London 1821–69; designed the Colosseum
in Regent’s Park 1823; carried out Hyde Park Corner improvements
where he designed the facade and triumphal arch 1825; designed the
Athenæum club 1827; laid out Calverley Park estate at Tunbridge
Wells 1828–50; architect to Royal botanic society 1840–70; F.R.S.
6 Dec. 1832, F.R.I.B.A. _d._ The Cottage, St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 14
Dec. 1881. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiv_, 8–10 (1883); _Builder
xli_, 779–80 (1881); _I.L.N. lxxix_, 650 (1881), _portrait_.
BURTON, EDWARD FREDERICK (_son of James Burton of London, solicitor
who d. 1869_). _b._ 1818; solicitor in London 1843 to death;
member of council of Incorporated law society 1865 to death, vice
pres. 1876–7, pres. 1877–8; member of judicature acts (legal
offices) committee 1877. _d._ Eastbourne 11 July 1879.
BURTON, JAMES RYDER. _b._ 1795; entered navy 12 May 1806; captain 23
Feb. 1824; granted good service pension 4 Nov. 1852; admiral on
half pay 4 Nov. 1863; K.H. 1 Jany. 1837; invented a method for
propelling ships of war during a calm 1819. _d._ 15 Park sq. east,
Regent’s park, London 2 Aug. 1876.
BURTON, JOHN HILL (_2 son of Wm. Kinnimont Burton of Aberdeen who d.
1820_). _b._ the Gallowgate, Aberdeen 22 Aug. 1809; ed. at
Marischal coll. Aberdeen; called to Scottish bar 1831; contributed
articles to _Blackwood’s Mag._ 1842 to death; sec. to general
board of directors of prisons in Scotland 24 July 1854; manager of
Perth prison 4 Jany. 1861 to Jany. 1878; historiographer royal of
Scotland 1867; author of _Law of bankruptcy in Scotland 2 vols._
1845; _Life of D. Hume 2 vols._ 1846; _Lives of Lord Lovat and
Duncan Forbes_ 1847; _Narratives from criminal trials in Scotland
2 vols._ 1852; _History of Scotland 9 vols._ 1853–70, _2 ed. 9
vols._ 1873; _The book hunter_ 1862, _new ed._ 1882; _History of
the reign of Queen Anne 3 vols._ 1880; _The Scot abroad 2 vols._