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A native of London, he was the son of Charles Burney, the music historian, and his first wife, Esther Sleepe.
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A native of London, he was the son of Charles Burney, the music historian, and his first wife, Esther Sleepe.
Burney was educated at Charterhouse School, London, and then at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He obtained an Doctor of Laws degree from King"s College, Aberdeen in 1781.
He was a brother of the novelist and diarist Fanny Burney and of the explorer James Burney, and a half-brother of the novelist Sarah Burney. However, he was accused of stealing books from the university library, probably to pay debts, and sent down in 1778. Ironically, Burney later amassed legally a collection of 13,000 rare books and manuscripts, which was ultimately bought by the nation for the British Museum in 1817 for the sum of £13,500.
Today, the Burney Collection belongs to the British Library.
In 1782, Burney became a master at a private school in Chiswick run by William Rose. When Rose died in 1786, Burney took over the school, moving it to nearby Hammersmith and thence to Greenwich in 1793.
Many eminent naval and military officers were educated there, but he seems to have been such a strong disciplinarian that he provoked a rebellion of about 50 boys at some time in the early years of the 19th century. One boy described it in an undated letter to his mother.
The boys took food, chessboards, cards and weapons, and barricaded themselves in: "Then Burney came and told them to open the door but they said it was not shut to be opened.
He then got a ladder & got at the top of the door where he could see them all.. till at last as the door was going to be cut open they unfastened it, when Burney rushed in. At first they hit him with their sticks but he knocked them about till at last they were quiet & Burney very generously gave them the choice of being expelled or forgiven. Above 40 were forgiven and 2 expelled." Burney gained a strong reputation as a Greek scholar with several publications to his name.
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1802.
He made his peace with Cambridge University, which awarded him an Master of Arts in 1808 on his ordination as an Anglican priest. He died of apoplexy, aged sixty.
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