Education
Burnford was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge.
Burnford was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge.
Later in the year he partnered Cree in the coxless pair representing Great Britain at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, but was unplaced. Burnford became a doctor and in 1944 was serving as a surgeon lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy. He remarried after her death to Sharon Roark.
In 1936 he was a member of the winning Cambridge boat in the Boat Race.