Thomas Burns (minister, born 1853)

Reverend Thomas Burns CBE TD FRSE FSA (1853–1938) was a Scottish minister and strong campaigner for the blind.

As Chair of the Royal Blind School in Edinburgh he was the creator of the Thomas Burns Home which was named after him.

[1] He was licensed as a Church of Scotland minister by the Presbytery of Glasgow in 1876 and ordained into Melville parish, near Montrose, Aberdeenshire in 1877.

From there in 1882 he moved to the Lady Glenorchy's Church on Roxburgh Street in Edinburgh's Southside, where he served for most of his life.

In 1929, under his chairmanship of the Royal Blind School, he created a new residential element, the Thomas Burns Home, on Alfred Place.