A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler, Burton played in half a dozen first-class cricket matches, but was mostly associated with Hertfordshire in minor counties cricket.
The son of first-class cricketer George Burton, he was born at Islington, Middlesex, and died at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.
[1] He resumed his minor counties career with Hertfordshire following the conclusion of the war.
He made his debut in first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1921, playing two matches at Lord's against Cambridge University and Oxford University.
[2] He appeared in first-class cricket for the MCC the following season against Cambridge University, while in 1924 he was selected to represent a combined Minor Counties cricket team against HDG Leveson-Gower's XI.