Robert Burn (classicist)

Robert Burn (22 October 1829 – 30 April 1904) was an English classical scholar and archaeologist and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

For many years he lectured on classical subjects; from 1862 to 1872 he was a tutor of Trinity, and discharged the duties of that office with conspicuous success.

[3] Burn, who frequently visited Rome and its neighbourhood during his vacations, was one of the first Englishmen to study the archaeology of the city and the Campagna.

He was a distinguished athlete in his youth and a good tennis player up to middle age; but for the last twenty years of his life, though his intellectual interests were unabated, he was an invalid confined to a bath-chair.

[1] Burn published several important works dealing with archaeology in Rome and the Campagna: Attribution