Talk:Robert Burton

Death
I removed the erroneous claim that Burton hung himself. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography's entry for Burton discounts this unsubstantianted rumor.
 * Sorry, didn't see this note until I'd added a reference to the passage in Aubrey. Delete if appropriate.--Shtove (talk) 13:15, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Requested move 8 February 2021

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The result of the move request was: Pages moved. – wbm1058 (talk) 22:06, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

– The scholar Robert Burton (1577-1640) is clearly the primary topic for "Robert Burton". A cursory Google search shows that this Burton is the only one with a Wikipedia page that shows up in the first 5 pages of results. Tenpop421 (talk) 23:38, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Robert Burton → Robert Burton (disambiguation)
 * Robert Burton (scholar) → Robert Burton

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 * Support. Normally I would hesitate for a name shared by this many subjects, but authorship of The Anatomy of Melancholy alone puts this one several levels above any other challenger. BD2412  T 06:05, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
 * |Robert_Burton_(scholar)|Robert_Burton_(American_politician)|Robert_Burton_(cricketer,_born_1943)|Robert_Burton_(academic)|Robert_Burton_(MP)|Robert_Burton_(athlete)|Robert_A._Burton|Robert_T._Burton|Rob_Burton Page views confirms PT. – wbm1058 (talk) 22:00, 2 March 2021 (UTC)