Bennet Graham Burley (c. 1840 – June 17, 1914[1]) was a Scottish-born pirate, Confederate spy and journalist.

Later in life, he changed his surname to Burleigh and became a celebrated war correspondent for London's The Daily Telegraph.

Burley had convinced a Canadian cousin in Guelph, Adam Robertson, to manufacture munitions for use in that raid.

[4] Burleigh was the first to report the failure of the Gordon relief expedition, which led to the slaughter of the Khartoum garrison.

Burleigh is thought by some to be a model for the correspondent Gilbert Torpenhow in Rudyard Kipling's The Light That Failed.