Major General David Leslie Burden, CB, CVO, CBE (born 14 July 1943) is a former British Army officer who served as Military Secretary from 1997 to 1999, and Receiver General of Westminster Abbey.
Burden was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps in 1964.
[1] In the mid to late 1970s Burden twice served in the Ministry of Defence and undertook two tours with the Allied Command Mobile Force Land, one in the headquarters and one in command of a logistic company.
[1] In 1985 he was made Deputy Chief of Staff at Headquarters British Forces Hong Kong and in 1989 he became Assistant Chief of Staff at Headquarters British Army of the Rhine.
[1] On retirement from the Army Burden served as Receiver General of Westminster Abbey from 1998 until 2008.