Person
Charles Parr Burney
- Slug
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- Alternative names
- Rev. Dr.
- Gender
- Assigned male at birth
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Ethnicity
- White
- Languages
- English
- Occupations
- Reverend
Charles Parr Burney was born in 1786, the son of Charles Burney the schoolmaster, and grandson of Charles Burney the music historian. He went to university at Merton, was the headmaster at his father’s school between 1813 and 1833. He was the incumbent at several Essex parishes, as well as the Archdeacon of first St Albans and then Colchester. He attended the inaugural meeting of the Essex Archaeological Society at Colchester Town Hall in 1852.