Career
An amateur right-handed batsman who sometimes opened the innings, Burrough played fairly regular first-class cricket for Somerset in the early 1930s, making useful runs and fielding athletically. He was, said his obituary in Wisden, "notably enthusiastic". He had been at Cambridge University, but appeared there in only one trial match for "seniors", and never made the first-class cricket side.
In 1931, he played cricket regularly for Somerset, though his highest score was only 55 and he averaged just 16 runs per innings.
The following year, 1932, he hit centuries against Northamptonshire and Warwickshire, the former – 135 in 180 minutes at Kettering – remaining the highest score of his career, and his average rose to 27. In 1933, though there were no further centuries, Burrough reached 1000 runs in a season for the only time in his career, finishing with 1007.
This was his last season for full-time cricket, although he continued to play fairly regularly until 1939, with two further centuries in 1935 and 1937. After the Second World War, he played just three first-class matches, without success.
Like his county captains Reggie Ingle and Bunty Longrigg, Burrough was a solicitor in Bath.
He also played for Bath Cricket Club.