Francis Burden (1829/30 – 13 January 1882) was a British civil engineer and chess player.
[3] Burden was born in Belfast, Ireland in either 1829 or 1830, and lived in London for many years, where he met and trained Cecil Valentine De Vere in chess.
He visited Venezuela in his capacity as a businessman around 1870, after which he developed a fever and was forced to retire from chess.
[2][4] At the time of his death, he had been retired from chess for twelve or thirteen years.
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