George Burn

George Burn (1759 – c.1820) was an architect, civil engineer and contractor active in Scotland in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

[2] He encountered financial difficulties connected with his work on the Spey Bridge at Fochabers, which led to his estate being sequestered in 1803.

[2] By 1806 he was living in Wick, Caithness, working mainly as a masonry contractor on a number of bridges designed by Thomas Telford.

[1][2] A spell of ill-health forced him to be absent from some of the work on Telford's bridges, which exacerbated his financial problems, but the projects were nonetheless completed successfully.

Telford recommended Burn to the British Fisheries Society in 1806 to work on the improvement of the fishing station at Pultneytown, where he built the piers and associated breastwork that formed the harbour.