Charles Burney (schoolmaster)

A native of London, he was the son of Charles Burney, a music historian, and his first wife, Esther Sleepe.

Burney was educated at Charterhouse School, London and at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.

Many eminent naval and military officers were educated there, but he seems to have been such a disciplinarian that he provoked a rebellion of about 50 boys at some time in the early years of the 19th century.

He advanced rapidly in the Church of England, becoming rector of the rich living of Cliffe, Kent, and of St Paul's, Deptford.

There are memorials to Burney in Westminster Abbey, by Sebastian Gahagan,[2] and St Paul's, Deptford, by Lewis Alexander Goblet.