Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/DNB Epitome 07

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 * ✅Charles Brown
 * ✅Charles Armitage Brown
 * ✅Charles Philip Brown
 * ✅David Brown
 * David Brown
 * ✅Ford Madox Brown
 * ✅✅George Brown (Benedictine)
 * ✅George Brown
 * ✅Sir George Brown
 * ✅George Brown

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 * ✅George Hilary Brown
 * Gilbert Brown (Cistercian)
 * ✅Hugh Stowell Brown
 * Ignatius Brown
 * James Brown (orientalist)
 * ✅James Brown
 * James Baldwin Brown the elder
 * ✅James Baldwin Brown
 * John Brown (painter)
 * John Brown of Wamphray

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 * ✅John Brown (Covenanter)
 * ✅John Browne (chemist)
 * ✅John Brown (essayist)
 * ✅John Brown (theologian)
 * ✅John Brown (doctor)
 * ✅John Brown (historian)
 * John Brown (1754-1832)
 * John Brown (1778-1848)
 * ✅John Brown (minister)
 * John Brown (geologist)

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 * ✅John Brown (geographer)
 * ✅John Brown (physician)
 * ✅John Brown (industrialist)
 * ✅John Crawford Brown
 * John Wright Brown
 * Joseph Brown (physician)
 * ✅Lancelot Brown
 * Levinius Brown
 * ✅Oliver Madox Brown
 * Peter Brown (journalist)

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 * Philip Brown (botanist)
 * ✅Rawdon Lubbock Brown
 * ✅Richard Brown
 * Robert Brown (painter) - ODNB states (1672–1753)
 * ✅Robert Brown
 * ✅Robert Brown (agriculturalist)
 * Robert Brown (divine) - ODNB states (c. 1792–1846)
 * ✅Robert Brown
 * ✅Robert Brown
 * ✅Samuel Brown

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 * ✅Samuel Brown (Royal Navy officer)
 * ✅Samuel Morison Brown
 * Samuel Brown (statist)
 * Stephen Brown (theologian)
 * Thomas Brown (officer of the Exchequer)
 * ✅Thomas Brown
 * Thomas Brown (translator)
 * ✅Thomas Brown (satirist)
 * ✅Thomas Brown (philosopher)
 * ✅Thomas Edward Brown
 * ✅Thomas Joseph Brown
 * ✅Ulysses Maximilian von Brown
 * ✅William Brown
 * ✅William Brown (clergyman)
 * ✅William Brown (admiral)
 * ✅Sir William Brown
 * ✅William Laurence Brown
 * Thomas Robson Brownbill
 * Alexander Browne (painter) - ODNB states d. 1706
 * ✅Anthony Browne (died 1548)
 * ✅Anthony Browne (justice)
 * ✅Anthony Browne
 * ✅Arthur Browne
 * David Browne (writer)
 * ✅Edward Browne (physician)
 * Edward Browne (Quaker)
 * ✅Edward Harold Browne
 * ✅Felicia Dorothea Browne
 * ✅George Browne (archbishop of Dublin)
 * George, Count de Browne
 * Hablot Knight Browne
 * Henry Browne
 * ✅Isaac Hawkins Browne (poet)
 * ✅Isaac Hawkins Browne (coalowner)
 * ✅James Browne (theologian)
 * ✅James Browne (writer)
 * ✅John Browne (anatomist)
 * ✅John Browne (artist)
 * John Browne (historian)
 * John Browne (physician)
 * Joseph Browne
 * ✅Lancelot Browne
 * ✅Lyde Browne (antiquary)
 * ✅Lyde Browne (officer)
 * Moses Browne
 * Patrick Browne
 * Peter Browne
 * ✅Sir Richard Browne
 * ✅Sir Richard Browne
 * Richard Browne (physician)
 * ✅Robert Browne
 * Samuel Browne (divine)
 * Samuel Browne (judge)
 * Simon Browne
 * Theophilus Browne
 * Thomas Browne (headmaster)
 * Thomas Browne (clergyman)
 * ✅Thomas Browne
 * Thomas Browne (physician)
 * ✅Thomas Browne (officer of arms)
 * Thomas Gore Browne
 * ✅William Browne (poet)
 * William Browne (botanist)
 * ✅William Browne (physician)
 * William Browne (engraver)
 * ✅William George Browne
 * Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 * John Browning (fl. 1684)
 * John Browning (fl. 1634)
 * ✅Robert Browning Robert Browning (1812–1889), poet; son of Robert Browning, a clerk in the Bank of England; educated at a school at Peckham, and by a private tutor; studied Greek at University College, London, 1829-30; displayed in early years some power of musical composition and wrote settings for a number of sough; published Pauline 1832; first visited Italy, 1834: produced (1855) Paracelsus which attracted the friendly notice of Carlyle, Leigh Hunt, Wordsworth, Dickens, and other men of letters; published a tragedy, Strafford which was played at Co vent Garden by Macready and Helen Faucit, 18:57; published Bordello 1840;Bells and Pomegranates (comprising Pippa Passes 1841,A Blot in theScutcheon performed at Drury Lane, 1843, by Phelps and Helen Faucit, Luria andA Soul's Tragedy 1846, and other pieces, eight in all), 1841-6; made acquaintance, 1845, of Elizabeth Barrett Moulton Barrett see BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT, whom he married, 1846; lived at Pisa, 1846-; and at Florence, 1847-51, and returned to England, 1851; in Paris, 1851-2; lived in Italy, staying chietly at Florence, from 1852 till 1856; returned (1866) to Italy, living for the most part at Home and Florence, where Mrs. Browning died, 1861; in 1861 Browning settled in London, but frequently revisited Italy in later life; publishedDramatis Persons 1864; honorary M.A. Oxford, 1868; made acquaintance, 1868, of George Smith, who became his publisher and intimate friend; published, in four successive installments, 1868-9,The Ring and the Book the rewriting of which had occupied him since 1862; published Balaustion's Adventure andPrince Hohenstiel-Schwangau 1871. Fifine at the Fair 1872, Red Cotton Nightcap Country 1873, The Inn Album 1875, Pacchiarotto 1876; translation of Agamemnon 1877,La Saisiaz andTwo Poets of Oroisic(one volume), 1878, and Dramatic Idylls first series, 1879, and second series, 1880; honorary LL.D. Edinburgh, 1884; foreign correspondent to Royal Academy, 1886; died at Venice, 16 Dec. 1889; buried in Westminster Abbey; hia last volume of poems, Asolando appeared on the day of his death. Portraits of him by Field, Talfourd, Mr. G. F. Watts, R.A., and Mr. Rudolf Lehmann, are in the National Portrait Gallery. His poems were collected in two volumes, 1896; several volumes of his correspondence with Mrs. Browning have been published. Browning was at his best in psychological monologue; his poems everywhere attest unflinching optimism.
 * Richard Brownlow
 * ✅Ralph Brownrig
 * Elizabeth Brownrigg
 * Sir Robert Brownrigg
 * William Brownrigg
 * Charles Edward Brown-Séquard
 * John Brownswerd
 * Noel Broxholme
 * Alexander Bruce
 * Alexander Balmain Bruce
 * Archibald Bruce
 * ✅David Bruce
 * ✅David Bruce (physician)
 * ✅Edward Bruce
 * ✅Edward Bruce
 * Sir Frederick William Adolphus Bruce
 * George Wyndham Hamilton Knight-Bruce
 * Henry Austin Bruce
 * James Bruce (minister)
 * ✅James Bruce
 * James Bruce (essayist)
 * James Bruce (author)
 * ✅James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
 * Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce
 * ✅John Bruce (historiographer)
 * ✅John Bruce (antiquary)
 * John Collingwood Bruce
 * ✅ Sir John Hope Bruce
 * ✅Michael Bruce (minister, born 1635)
 * Michael Bruce (1686–1735)
 * ✅Michael Bruce (poet)
 * Peter Henry Bruce
 * Robert I de Bruce (NB modern scholarship casts doubt on what the DNB says here.)
 * Robert II de Bruce
 * Robert III de Bruce
 * Robert IV de Bruce
 * Robert V de Bruce
 * Robert VI de Bruce
 * Robert VII de Bruce
 * Robert VIII de Bruce Robert VIII de Bruce (1274–1329), king and liberator of Scotland; son of Robert de Bruce VII; Earl of Carrick on his mother's death, 1292; paid homage to Edward I, as king of Scotland, 24 Aug. 1296; refused, with other Scottish nobles, to accompany Edward I to Flanders, 1297, and ravaged the lands of Edward's adherents; was still in arms against Edward in 1298; coregent of Scotland, 1299; during Edward's invasion of Scotland, 1302-4, apparently favoured Edward, but was really in treaty with the patriotic party; murdered John Comyn, at Dumfries, 10 Feb. 1306; crowned king at Scone, 27 March; defeated at Methven, 19 June; wandered in the central and western highlands, and sought shelter on the island of Rachrine, on north coast of Antrim; excommunicated and outlawed; returned to Arran, and thence to Carrick; won the battle of Loudon Hill, 10 May 1307, but had to fall back for a time; harried the lands of his chief opponents, Buchan and Lome, 1308; recognised as king by the Scottish clergy, 1310; the Hebrides eded to him by the king of Norway, 1312; raided the north of England, 1312, 1313; defeated Edward II at Bannockburn, 24 June 1314; subdued the Hebrides, 1316: joined his brother, Edward Bruce (d. 1318), in a campaign in Ireland, 1317; took Berwick, 1318; initiated legislation for the defence and administration of the kingdom: conspiracy of Sir William Soulis against him detected, 1320; baffled an invasion by Edward II, and ravaged Yorkshire, 1322; recognised by the pope as king of Scotland, 1323; settled the succession, 1326; concluded peace with Edward III, April 1328; died of leprosy; his body buried at Dunfermline, his heart (which had been destined for Jerusalem) at Melrose. He married, first, Isabella, daughter of Donald, earl of Mar, and had by her a daughter, Marjory, through whom tl:- crovii ilr-ivnd.tl to the Stuarts; secondly, KluaU'th iU- Unroll, daughter of the Karl of Ulster, by whom he had a son, David Bruce, his successor.
 * Robert Bruce (spy)
 * ✅Robert Bruce (moderator)
 * ✅Robert Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury
 * ✅Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury
 * ✅Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin
 * ✅Sir William Bruce, 1st Baronet, of Balcaskie
 * William Bruce (publisher)
 * ✅✅William Bruce (minister)
 * William Bruce (Irish presbyterian)
 * John Bruckner
 * James Thomas Brudenell
 * ✅Robert Brudenell (Chief Justice)
 * John Bruen
 * Richard Bruerne
 * Thomas Brugis
 * ✅John Maurice, Count of Brühl
 * ✅George Bryan Brummell
 * Thomas Brunaeus
 * John Jelliand Brundish
 * ✅Isambard Kingdom Brunel
 * Marc Isambard Brunel
 * Anthony Bruning
 * George Bruning
 * Sir James Brunlees
 * Robert de Brunne
 * Benjamin Brunning
 * Alexander Brunton
 * Elizabeth Brunton
 * George Brunton
 * Louisa Brunton
 * Mary Brunton
 * William Brunton
 * William Brunyard
 * Anthony Bruodine
 * Nicholas Brutton
 * Bedo Brwynllys
 * Augustine Bryan
 * Francis Bryan
 * John Bryan (logician)
 * John Bryan (nonconformist)
 * Margaret Bryan
 * Matthew Bryan
 * Michael Bryan
 * Henry Bryant
 * Jacob Bryant
 * Sir Alexander Bryce
 * David Bryce
 * James Bryce (divine)
 * James Bryce
 * John Brydall
 * Edmund Brydges
 * ✅George Brydges
 * ✅Giles Brydges
 * ✅Grey Brydges
 * Sir Harford Jones Brydges
 * James Brydges
 * Sir John Brydges
 * Sir Richard Brydges
 * Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
 * ✅✅Sir Thomas Brydges
 * William Brydon
 * Patrick Brydone
 * Thomas Brydson
 * Henry Bryer
 * Edward Bryerwood
 * Thomas Bryghtwell
 * Albertus Bryne
 * Thomas Brynknell
 * Lodowick Bryskett
 * ✅Alexander Bryson (surgeon)
 * James Bryson
 * William Bryson (Presbyterian)
 * ✅George Buc
 * Dukes of Buccleuch
 * ✅Martin Bucer
 * Earls of Buchan
 * Alexander Peter Buchan
 * Andrew of Buchan
 * Elspeth Buchan
 * Peter Buchan
 * Thomas Buchan
 * William Buchan
 * Andrew Buchanan
 * Sir Andrew Buchanan
 * Claudius Buchanan
 * David Buchanan (historian)
 * David Buchanan (the elder)
 * David Buchanan (the younger)
 * Dugald Buchanan
 * Francis Hamilton Buchanan
 * ✅George Buchanan George Buchanan (1506–1582), historian and scholar: studied at Paris, 1520-2; served at the siege of Werk, 1523; studied at St. Andrew's under John Major, lf.2l; 15. A., 1625; went to Paris, 1526; graduated M.A. in the Scots college, Paris, March 1528; taught grammar in the college of St. Barbe; tutor to Gilbert, earl of ;it Paris, 1529-34; returned to Scotland, 1536; tutor to a natural son of James V, 1536-8; urged by the king to satirise the morals of the clergy, and so provoked Cardinal Beaton; escaped from prison at St. Andrews, and fled to London, 1539; taught Latin at Bordeaux, 1540-3; taught in the college of Cardinal le Moiue at Paris, 1544-7; invited to teach in the college at Ooimbra, 1547, and imprisoned there by the inquisition, 1549-51; came to England, 1552; returned to Paris, and taught in the college of Boncourt, 1563; tutor to Timoleon de Cosse, cointe de Brissae (killed in action, 1569), 1554-9, in France and Italy; returned to Scotland and professed himself a protestant before 1563; lay member of the general assembly, 1663-8, and moderator, 1567; principal of St. Leonard's College, St. Andrews, 1566-70; assigned a pension out of the revenues of Crossraguel Abbey; lived in England, October 1568, to January 1569, as secretary of Regent Moray's commissioners, and vouched that the casket letters were in Queen Mary's handwriting; published, in Scottish dialect (1570), pamphlets attacking the Hamiltons on account of Moray's assassination, and ridiculing Maitland of Lethiugtou, the queen's advocate; resided at Stirling as tutor to James VI, 1570-8; keeper of the privy seal, 1570-8; publishedDetectio Marite Reginte a venomous attack on Queen Mary, 1571, in Latin and, 1572, in French and Scottish; wrote Latin poems. His De Jure Regni apud Scotos 1579, was long a textbook of the opponents of absolutism. His Rerum Scoticarum historia 1582, was the chief source from which foreigners derived their knowledge of Scotland.
 * ✅George Buchanan (engineer born 1790)
 * ✅Sir George Buchanan (physician)
 * ✅George Buchanan (surgeon)
 * James Buchanan
 * John Lanne Buchanan
 * Robert Buchanan (Socialist)
 * ✅Robert Buchanan (playwright)
 * Robert Buchanan (minister)
 * Robertson Buchanan
 * William Buchanan
 * Adam Buck
 * ✅✅Charles Buck (minister)
 * George Buck
 * John William Buck
 * Samuel Buck
 * Zachariah Buck
 * Charles Bucke
 * Robert Buckenham
 * ✅John Buckeridge
 * Baron Buckhurst
 * Dukes of Buckingham
 * Marquis of Buckingham
 * Earl of Buckingham
 * Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos
 * James Silk Buckingham
 * Leicester Silk Buckingham
 * ✅Osbern Buckingham
 * ✅Duke of Buckinghamshire
 * Earls of Buckinghamshire
 * ✅Francis Trevelyan Buckland
 * Ralph Buckland (priest)
 * William Buckland
 * Sir Claude Henry Mason Buckle
 * Henry Thomas Buckle
 * Benjamin Buckler
 * John Buckler
 * William Buckler
 * Cecil William Buckley
 * ✅John Buckley
 * Olivia Buckley
 * Robert Buckley (Sigebert)
 * Theodore William Alois Buckley
 * William Buckley (mathematician)
 * William Buckley
 * James Buckman
 * Thomas Buckmaster
 * ✅✅William Buckmaster
 * Sir John Charles Bucknill
 * Joseph Buckshorn
 * John Baldwin Buckstone
 * George Budd (painter)
 * ✅✅George Budd
 * Henry Budd (theologian)
 * Richard Budd
 * William Budd
 * John Budden
 * Adam Buddle
 * John Buddle
 * Edward Budge
 * Eustace Budgell
 * Samuel Budgett
 * Joseph Budworth
 * William Budworth
 * Eleanor Bufton
 * Francis Bugg
 * Bugga
 * Paul Buissiere
 * ✅✅George Buist (journalist)
 * Buite
 * ✅Arthur Bulkeley

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 * ✅Launcelot Bulkeley
 * ✅Richard Bulkeley (d. 1621)
 * Richard Bulkeley (general)
 * ✅Sir Richard Bulkeley
 * Sophia Bulkeley
 * Charles Bulkley
 * ✅Peter Bulkley
 * Daniel Bull
 * ✅George Bull
 * Henry Bull (theologian)

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 * ✅John Bull (composer)
 * ✅✅John Bull (prophet)
 * William Bull (minister)
 * ✅Thomas Bullaker
 * Richard Bullein
 * William Bullein
 * Charles Bullen
 * George Bullen (librarian)
 * Charles Buller
 * Francis Buller
 * George Buller
 * John Bullingham
 * Nicholas Bullingham
 * Richard Bullingham
 * John Bulloch
 * Christopher Bullock
 * George Bullock (professor)
 * Henry Bullock
 * William Bullock
 * William Bullock
 * William Thomas Bullock
 * John Bullokar
 * William Bullokar
 * Agnes Bulmer
 * William Bulmer (printer)
 * Edward Bulstrode
 * Richard Bulstrode
 * Whitelocke Bulstrode
 * Henry Bellenden Bulteel
 * John Bulteel
 * Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer
 * John Bulwer
 * Rosina Boyle Bulwer
 * William Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer
 * William Maclardie Bunting
 * Henry Edward Bunbury
 * Henry William Bunbury
 * Richard Bundy (priest)
 * Thomas Bungay
 * Alfred Bunn
 * Margaret Agnes Bunn
 * James Bunstone Bunning
 * ✅Edmund Bunny
 * Francis Bunny
 * Frances Bunsen
 * Edward Bunting
 * Jabez Bunting
 * ✅John Bunyan John Bunyan (1028–1688), author of 'Pilgrim's Progress; son of Thomas Bunyan (rf. 1676), tinsmith, of Klstow, near Bedford; learned reading and writing; was early set to his father's trade; lost his mother, June 1644; enlisted that year, in anger at his father's re- marriage, possibly in the parliamentary forces (stationed at Newport Pagnel, 1644-6); deeply moved by the death of a comrade, shot while serving in his place; profited by two devotional books belonging to his wife; gave up amusements and a bad habit of swearing: read the bible narratives; attended church services; overheard a religious conversation of certain poor women in Bedford, and in 1653 joined their society, which then met in St. John's Church, under Mr. Gifford (d. c. 1656), an ex-royalist officer; removed from Klstow to Bedford, 1655; chosen deacon in his church: began to preach; lost his wife, c. 1656, and was left with four young children, one of them blind; his first publicationsSome Gospel Truths opened 1656, andA Vindicationof it, 1657, both directed against the quakers; being set apart as a preacher, 1657, preached throughout the district, still working at his craft; indicted at the assizes in consequence of the opposition of the settled presbyterian clergy, 1658; married, c. 1659, his second wife. Elizabeth (d, 1691); arrested for preaching, 12 Nov. 1660, and imprisoned, the laws against unlicensed preaching being rigorously enforced; allowed out of prison, pending trial, to preach at his meeting-house; sentenced to a short term of imprisonment at the Bedford assizes, January 1661, but, refusing to discontinue public preaching, was kept in prison (with an interval of a few weeks in 1666) till the spring of 1672, when he was released by Charles II's Declaration of Indulgence; allowed much freedom in prison, making tagged laces for a living, preaching to the prisoners, and writing numerous pieces, prose and verse. He is supposed to have undergone a short imprisonment in 1675, and to have then written his Pilgrim's Progress published in 1678. Otherwise he was unmolested, and from 1672 till death preached in many places, especially in London, and wrote largely. He was buried in Bunhill Fields, London. His collected works were published in 1736.
 * ✅James Burbage
 * ✅Richard Burbage
 * Edward Burch
 * Saint Burchard
 * William John Burchell
 * Josiah Burchett
 * Richard Burchett
 * John Lewis Burckhardt
 * ✅George Burder
 * Henry Forster Burder
 * Samuel Burder
 * Sir Francis Burdett
 * William Burdon
 * Samuel Burdy
 * John Burell
 * Earl of Burford
 * Robert Burford
 * Thomas Burford
 * Cornelius Burges
 * George Burges
 * Sir James Bland Burges
 * John Burges
 * Mary Anne Burges
 * William Burges
 * Anthony Burgess (minister)
 * Daniel Burgess
 * Daniel Burgess (administrator)
 * Henry Burgess
 * ✅John Burgess
 * John Burgess (nonconformist)
 * John Bagnold Burgess
 * John Cart Burgess
 * Joseph Tom Burgess
 * Richard Burgess
 * Thomas Burgess
 * Thomas Burgess
 * ✅Thomas Burgess (bishop)
 * Thomas Burgess
 * William Burgess
 * William Burgess (engraver)
 * William Oakley Burgess
 * Benedict Burgh
 * Hubert de Burgh
 * James Burgh
 * ✅Sir John Burgh (officer)
 * Richard de Burgh
 * Richard de Burgh
 * ✅Ulick de Burgh
 * Sir Ulysses Bagenal Burgh
 * Walter de Burgh
 * Walter Hussey Burgh
 * William de Burgh
 * William de Burgh
 * William Burgh (controversialist)
 * Edward Burghall
 * Michael Burghers
 * Baron Burghersh
 * Bartholomew Burghersh
 * Bartholomew Burghersh
 * Henry Burghersh
 * Barons Burghley
 * Edward Burgis
 * Dr Burgo
 * ✅John William Burgon
 * Thomas Burgon
 * Hugh Talbot Burgoyne
 * Sir John Burgoyne
 * John Burgoyne
 * Sir John Fox Burgoyne
 * Montagu Burgoyne
 * Sir Montagu Roger Burgoyne, 8th Baronet
 * Walter de Burgsted
 * Duchess of Burgundy

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 * ✅Robert Burhill
 * ✅Burhred
 * ✅Edmund Burke Edmund Burke (1729–1797), statesman; second son of Richard Burke, attorney, of Dublin; brought up as a protestant by his father; entered Trinity College, Dublin, 1743; B.A., 1748; entered the Middle Temple, London, 1750; troubled by weak health: travelled in the west of England and in France; punished for neglect of his legal studies by discontinuance of the allowance from his father, 1755; first published works, Vindication of Natural Society andOn the Sublime and Beautiful 1756; married a catholic, who afterwards turned protestant, Jane Nugent, daughter of his physician, 1756, and was for some time dependent on his father-in-law; unsuccessfully applied for the consulship at Madrid, 1759; started theAnnual Register 1759, and contributed to it till 1788; private secretary to William Gerard Hamilton, 1759-64, accompanying him to Ireland, 1761-2, and again 1763-4; resigned a pension which Hamilton had obtained for him, 17G1; private secretary to tlia Marquis of Ttocktngham, July 17G5, who from time to time helped him I iy advances of money and destroyed his bond- at his death; inherited a small Irih estate inim a brother, 17G5, which he sold in 17to; el.-etcd M.P. for Wendovcr, 1705-74, through the intiueneeotKalph.Mvond earl Yrney; tin-t spoke in parliameiit, 27 Jan. 1700, on the A-mericunrnttcstttm; ackuuwl.-di.-vu.i. an. orator of the HSrcla, lint out of touch with the house; visited Ireland, ently attacked the administration of Chatham and Grafton, especially in regard to their dealing sith Ka-t Indian. 1 7M, and American questions, 1767; partieipated in the stockjobbing operations of a brother, a kinsman, and Lord Vemey; was partly involved in their ruin, 17C'J, and remainud lor the rest of his life in continuous financial difficulties; bought his estate at Beaconsfield, 17U8, before the crash came; vigorously j attacked the foreign and domes tic policy of the tory govern; rni; issued Thoughts on the Present Discontents 23 April 1770, accusing the government of strangling public opinion; carried the day in favour of giving publicity to proceedings in parliament, 1771; agent for New "  province!771j_jdoleutly assailed*" By pamphleteers the"~IHTpression that he was author of the * Letters of Junius 1772; voted for removal of disabilities of proU-stam di~-i nters and advocated taxing absentee Irish landlords, 1773; visited Paris, February-March 1773, and returned with a pronounced aversion to French democracy; joined by Charles James Fox in his violent attacks on North's conduct of atl'airs, 1774-5; M.P. for Bristol, 1774-80, on the invttattoit-ef the citizens, who afterwards took offence at his championship of Irish trade and catholic emancipation; strongly advocated peace with  America, 1775-6; ilplivftivd his    employing Indians uPllie Amencauwar, February 1778; helped Admiral Keppel in his successful de'fence before a court-martial, 1779; advocated economical reform in the public service and restrictions on the slave-trade, 1780; became M.P. for Malton, Yorkshire, 1781-94, through Lord Kockingham's influence; again advocated economical reform, and, by his attacks -ou-tlie-eeuduetofthe American war, fureeil "North to resign, 1781-2; kept out of the cabinet by the whips on their coming into office, i but.made paymaster of the forces, March-July 1782; grged UUUUUniteal ll'fnnn i Ux_par tial success, and the conferring of self-government on Ireland, 1782; retired from the ministry with Fox, July 1782; acquiesced in the coalition government of Fox and North under the Duke of Portland, and accepted paymastership of the forces, 1783; active member of the committee which investigated the affairs of the East India Company, wrote the Ninth Report on the trade of Bengal and the system pursued by Warren Hastings, and the Eleventh Report on the system of presents, and drafted the government's East India bill, 1783; lord rector of Glasgow University, 1784 and 1785; personally unpopular in the House of Commons; continued his attack on Warren Hastings, 1785; travelled in Scotland, 1785; joined by Philip Francis in urging the impeachment of Hastings, 1786, which was accomplished, 10 May 1787; opened the case for the impeachment in Westminster Hall, February 1788; again pushed over by Fox in forming a cabinet, 1788; joined Fox in upholding right of Prince of Wales to regency, 1788; supported Wilberforce in advocating abolition of the slave-trade, 1788-9; spoke in parliament against the French democracy, February 1790, and issued his Reflections on the French Revolution November 1790; estranged in consequence from Fox and Sheridan; prevailed on the new parliament to continue the impeachment of Hastings, 1790: LL.D. Dublin, 1791; finally quarrelled with Fox and the whigs, 1791; voted against removal of disabilities from Unitarians, and against parliamentary reform, advised his friends to support Pitt and the tories, pleaded for war with France, and openly joined the ministerial party, 1792; continued his quarrel with Fox and Sheridan, 1794; delivered his nine-daysspeech for the jmrnMbnant of Hastings in reply to the defence, 171)4; retired from parliament, July;.pensioned by the ministry, 1794; encouraged the foundation of Maynooth College, 1795; present at the acquittal of Hastings, 179*; established a school for sons of French refugees at Penn, Buckinghamshire, and wrote Letters on a Regicide Peace 1796. His collected works were, published, 17J2-1827.
 * Edmund Plunkett Burke
 * John Burke
 * ✅Sir John Bernard Burke
 * Peter Burke (legal writer)
 * ✅Robert O'Hara Burke
 * ✅Thomas Burke (bishop)
 * Thomas Burke

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 * Thomas Henry Burke
 * Thomas Nicholas Burke
 * Ulick Ralph Burke
 * William Burke (MP)
 * ✅William Burke
 * Henry Burkhead
 * William Burkitt
 * Barons of Burleigh
 * John Burley
 * John Burley
 * Simon Burley
 * Walter Burley
 * William Burley
 * Earls of Burlington
 * Henry Burlowe
 * John Burly
 * Thomas Burman
 * Edward Burn
 * John Burn (magistrate)
 * John Southerden Burn
 * Richard Burn
 * William Burn
 * Andrew Burnaby
 * Charles Burnaby
 * Frederick Gustavus Burnaby
 * Nevill Northey Burnard
 * Nicol Burne
 * Robert Burne
 * Edward Coley Burne-Jones
 * Arthur Coke Burnell
 * Edward Burnell
 * Henry Burnell
 * ✅Robert Burnell
 * Sir Alexander Burnes
 * James Burnes
 * Simon Burneston
 * Alexander Burnet
 * Elizabeth Burnet
 * ✅Gilbert Burnet Gilbert Burnet (1643–1715), bishop of Salisbury; of an Aberdeenshire family; son of a well-to-do Edinburgh lawyer, three times exiled for refusing the covenant; his mother a strict presby terian; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen; M.A.; studied law; afterwards studied divinity and history; probationer of the Scottish church, 1661; practised extemporary preaching; thought ill of the oppressive policy of the Scottish bishops, 1663; visited Cambridge, Oxford, and London, and refused the parish of Saltoun, Haddmgtonshire, 1663; studied Hebrew at Amsterdam, visited Paris and the court at London, 1664; F.R.S., 1664; minister of Saltoun, 1665-9; wrote against the Scottish bishops and in favour of Lauderdale's milder policy, 1666; clerk of Haddington presbytery, 1667; sounded as to a proposal to divorce Charles IPs queen for barrenness; in Lauderdale's confidence, 1667; employed by Archbishop Leighton to negotiate with the presbyterians, 1669; employed by the Duchess of Hamilton to obtain the king's sanction for placing presbyterian ministers in certain parishes; professor of divinity at Glasgow, 1669; advised the privy council to send a commission into the west to inquire into the growing discontent; employed by Leighton to urge the moderate presbyterians to accept the offers of the court, 1670, and by the Duchess of Hamilton to arrange her family papers (published Memoirs of the Dukes of Hamilton 1676); persuaded the Duke of Hamilton to accept the court measures, 1671; summoned to London to advise Lauderdale, and offered the bishopric of Edinburgh, 1671; married his first wife, 1671; joined the Duke of Hamilton in reprobating Lauderdale's new policy of violence, 1672; wrote in favour of obedience to episcopacy, and against popery, 1673; visited London; as king's chaplain remonstrated with Charles II on his profligacy, 1673; incurred the hatred of Lauderdale, 1673; went to London, June 1674; dismissed by the king from his chaplaincy; preached in London churches; chaplain of the Kolls Chapel and lecturer of St. Clement's, 1675-84; witness against Lauderdale before the House of Commons, 1675; offered the see of Chichester, 1678; deprecated persecution of Roman catholics during the popish plot, 1678-80, incurring the dislike both of the court and of the extreme anti-popery party; published his History of the Reformation in England vol. i. 1679 vol. ii. 1681, vol. iii. 1714; remonstrated with Charles II on his evil   life, 1680; attended the deathbed of the Karl of Rochester, 1680; intimate with William, lord Russell, 1681; asked, but was refused, the mastership of the Temple; obtained places in England for dispossessed Scottish clergy, 1682; wrote against popery; attended Lord Russell on the scaffold; withdrew to 1'aris, lts;{; returned to England; ejected from his chaplaincy at the Kolls and his lectureship by Charles II, 1684; visited Paris, Rome, Geneva, Strasburg, Frankfort, Heidelberg, and Utrecht, 1685-6 publishing a narrative of his tour, 1687; visited the Hague on invitation of the Prince of Orange, 1686; outlawed by James II, 1687; married his second wife, Mary Scott (rf. 1698), 1687; obtained from Mary, consort of the Prince of Orange, a promise to place power in William's hands; advised Sophia of Hanover of the intended invasion of England; drafted William's declaration; accompanied William to Torbay and London, 1688; bishop of Salisbury, 1689: advocated toleration in the House of Lords; preached the coronation sermon; carried the bill to attaint Sir John Fenwick, 1697; appointed to attend Peter the Great, 1698; married his third wife see BURNET, ELIZABETH; published Exposition of the xxxix Articles 1699 (censured by the lower house of convocation, 1701); had charge of the succession bill, 1701; attended William on his deathbed, 1702; opposed the occasional conformity bill, 1703; obtained first-fruite and tenths for church purposes Queen Anne's Bounty, 1704; spoke against Sacheverell, 1710; remonstrated with Anne for countenancing the Pretender, James Edward; lived latterly in Clerkenwell; wrote a History of his own Times (published, 1723-34), sermons, controversial treatises, and political pamphlets.

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 * Gilbert Burnet (pamphleteer) sub
 * James Burnet
 * John Burnet
 * Margaret Burnet
 * Thomas Burnet (phycisian)
 * ✅Thomas Burnet
 * Thomas Burnet (theologian)
 * Thomas Burnet (judge)
 * ✅William Burnet (administrator) sub
 * ✅✅George Burnett (writer)

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 * ✅George Burnett (officer of arms)
 * ✅Gilbert Thomas Burnett
 * ✅James Burnett
 * ✅John Burnett (merchant)
 * ✅John Burnett (advocate)
 * ✅Sir William Burnett
 * ✅ ✅Charles Burney
 * ✅Charles Burney (scholar)
 * ✅Frances Burney
 * ✅James Burney
 * ✅✅Sarah Harriet Burney
 * ✅✅John Burneyeat
 * ✅✅Richard Burnham (clergyman)
 * ✅✅Richard Burnham (baptist)
 * ✅Allan Burns (physician)
 * ✅Sir Sir George Burns, 1st Baronet
 * ✅✅Islay Burns
 * ✅✅Jabez Burns
 * ✅✅James Burns (merchant)
 * ✅✅James Burns (Scottish shipowner)
 * ✅✅James Drummond Burns
 * ✅✅John Burns (surgeon)
 * ✅Robert Burns Robert Burns (1759–1796), poet ; son of a cottar (d. "1784); born at Alloway; educated by his father; worked as a farm-labourer, 1772; read theSpectator Pope's Homer Allan Ramsay, and pedlar's slip-songs; composed his first verses, 1776; learnt surveying, 1777, and associated with tippling smugglers at Kirkoswald; wrote Death of Poor Mailie John Barleycorn and occasional poems; read Thomson, Shenstone, Sterne, and Ossian; member of convivial, debating, and masonic clubs at Tarbolton, 1780-1; courted Ellison Begbie Mary Morison of the song), who rejected him; worked in a flaxdresser's shop at Irvine, June-December 1781; began a common-place book, 1783; farmed 118 acres in partnership with his brother Gilbert at Mossgiel, 1784-8; wrote some of his best workCottar's Saturday Night The Twa Dogs Halloween The Jolly Beggars the addressesTo a MouseandTo a Mountain Daisynud some of his sharpest satiresDeath and Dr. Hornbook (against a village grocer-druggist) andHoly Willie's Prayer(against a Mauchline elder) in 1786 and 1786; conceived the idea of sending to a magazine his Epistle to Da vie(Sillar), 1786; discovered that The Twa Herds a satire against two Culvinists, had a lively circulation in manuscript; gave Jean Armour, daughter of a Mauchline mason, a written declaration of marriage, which her father destroyed, April 1786, preferring his daughter's loss of reputation to the proposed match; obtained the poet of overseer on a Jamaica plantation, 1786, and, to provide passage-money, arranged with John Wilson, printer, Kilmarnock, for an edition of his poems; trysted with Mary Campbell, a sailor's daughter from Argyllshire, to go with him as his wife, 1786; composed after her death, in memory of her, Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary ? To Mary in H.iiven 1 (October 1789), andHighland Mary(November 17U2); liN poems f;ivourahly mentioned in Edinburgh reviews and praised personally to liurns; gained access to the literary circles by his reputation asa heavfii-taiiirht ploughman and by liis convivial power- to tin 1 iiiaMinir and drinking clubs of the capital; the second (17*7) edition of his poems undertaken by William Creech, who about 178H completed his payment of 5oo., Hums parting with the copyright; met James Johnson, projector of theScots Musical Museum to the six volumes (1787-1803) of which he contributed songs; trectul a memorial-stone to the poet Fergussou, February 1787; travelled through the border counties and Argyllshire, 1787; spent July at Mossgiel, renewing his relations with Jean Armour; returned to Kdinbnrgh in August 1787; travelled through the central highlands and the eastern counties in September, and Stirling, Clackmannan, and Kinnvs in October; began in Edinburgh a tender cor respom lence with Margaret Chalmers Peggy, and also with Agnes M'Lehose Clarinda), whose husband was abroad; decided to marry Jean Armour, an intention effected in August 1788; gave up his share in the farm at Mossgiel, lending his brother Gilbert ISO, to carry it on, and engaged Ellisland, a farm six miles from Dumfries, March 1788; lived at Ellisland, June 1788 to Decemberl79l. his wife Jean (to whom he addressed 0athe airts the wind can blaw) living for the time at Mauchline; turned his holding into a dairy-farm, to be managed by his wife, while he took an exciseman's place, about August 1789, at a salary of 40Z.; wrote * Auld Lang Syne and Tarn o Shanter c. 1789; gave up Ellisland and settled in Dumfries, December 1791, as exciseman on a salary of 701.; suspected by the government on account of the Jacobite stirnent of his songs and his freeman's sympathy with the French democracy, coming within an ace of dismissal, December 1 792; gladly accepted an invitation by George Thomson, then projecting a new collection of Scottish songs, to supply words for old melodies, 1792,Scots wha hae1793) being written for this purpose; his reputation prejudiced and health shattered by his association with the hard-drinking gentry of the district; fell asleep by the roadside after a carouse, a mischance followed by rheumatic fever; died at Dumfries. A subscription and a memorial edition of his works (1800), edited by James Carrie, provided for the immediate wants of his family. His children shared their father's independent spirit, his wife resigning a pension of 50*. as soon as they were able to support her (1818).
 * ✅✅Robert Burns (theologian)
 * ✅✅William Chalmers Burns
 * ✅✅Robert Burnside
 * ✅✅Robert Burrant
 * ✅✅Sir Harry Burrard, 1st Baronet of Lymington
 * ✅✅John Burrell
 * ✅✅Litellus Burrell
 * ✅✅Sophia Burrell
 * ✅✅Sir William Burrell
 * ✅Christopher Burrough
 * ✅✅Edward Burrough
 * Sir James Burrough (architect)
 * ✅Sir James Burrough (judge)
 * ✅Stephen Burrough
 * ✅William Borough (William Burrough)
 * ✅Jeremiah Burroughes
 * ✅Sir John Borough (John Burroughs)
 * ✅Joseph Burroughs
 * ✅✅Edward John Burrow
 * ✅✅Sir James Burrow
 * ✅✅Reuben Burrow
 * ✅✅John Freckleton Burrowes
 * ✅✅Peter Burrowes
 * ✅Sir George Burrows, 1st Baronet
 * ✅✅George Man Burrows
 * ✅Sir John Cordy Burrows
 * ✅Robert Burscough
 * ✅✅Albin R. Burt
 * ✅Edward Burt
 * ✅William Burt (writer)
 * ✅Richard Burthogge