Burney, James
James Burney (13 June 1750 – 17 November 1821) was an English Rear-Admiral who accompanied Captain Cook in his last two voyages.
He was a son of the composer Charles Burney, brother to Charles Burney and the novelist and diarist Fanny Burney, and half-brother to the novelist Sarah Burney, who kept house for him from 1798 to 1803. He was also a friend of Charles Lamb. He was an accomplished scholar and very knowledgeable sailor. He was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1809.[1]
He wrote a number of books including a series of History of Voyages of Discovery.
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- Chronological History of the Voyages and Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean
- Chronological History of North-Eastern Voyages of Discovery and of the Early Eastern Navigations of the Russians
- History of the Buccaneers of America (1816)
- An Essay by Way of Lecture on the Game of Whist (1823)
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- The Royal Society. This also confirms the biographical information here, as does the epitome in the Concise Dictionary of National Biography, 1939 [1903]. For more information on his troubled private life, see The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, ed. Lorna J. Clark (Athens, GA/London: University of Georgia Press, 1997), passim.
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13 June 1750 |
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17 November 1821 |
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