Background
Burton was born in 1793 at Rhodes Hall, Middleton, Lancashire, the seat of his father Daniel Burton, a cotton manufacturer, of whom he was the youngest son.
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Charles Burton
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He was educated at the University of Glasgow and Street John"s College, Cambridge, where he graduated Bachelor of Laws in 1822.
Career
In 1829 he was incorporated Bachelor of Civil Law at Magdalen College, Oxford, on 14 October, and received the degree of Doctorate.C.L. on the following day. The church of All Saints, Manchester was built by him at a cost of £18,000 and consecrated in 1820, when he became rector, after serving for a short time as curate of Street James"s in the same town. Most of the church was destroyed by fire on 6 February 1850.
Burton was a botanist, and his discovery in Anglesey of a plant new to science led to his election as Fellow of the Linnean Society.
While on a visit at Western Lodge, Durham, he was attacked by typhus fever, and died after three weeks" illness on 6 September 1866.
