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BURGES, JOHN, son of James Burges (qv); bapt. St. Paul, Covent Garden 14 Aug 1743; at school under Markham (Munk’s Roll of the Royal College of Physicians, 1878, ii, 306); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 14 Mar 1761, aged 17, Canoneer Student 23 Dec 1761 - 24 Jun 1775 (void); BA 1764; MA 1767; MB 1770; MD 1774; Physician to St. George’s Hospital, 8 Apr 1774 - 23 Feb 1787; FRCP 30 Sep 1775, Censor 1776, 1780, 1785, 1790, 1794, 1797, an Elect 26 Jun 1797; his health did not allow him to undertake general practice; bequeathed his collection of materia medica to his old pupil Everard Augustus Brande (qv), by whom it was presented to the College of Physicians in 1809; d. 2 Apr 1807. DNB.

Burges-Bayly, Archibald Robert, son of the Rev. Robert Burges-Bayly, Rector of Bosbury, near Ledbury, co. Hereford, by Emma, daughter of Edward Whistler, of Clapham Park, Surrey; b. March 31, 1874; adm. Jan. 18, 1888 (H); left Dec. 1890; Clare Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1893; ordained deacon 1887, priest 1889; held several curacies; Vicar of Sundon and Streatley, Beds. 1907-8; curate in charge of the Holy Cross Mission, Raynes Park, 1908-10; was received into the Roman Catholic Church 1910; engaged in social work in Liverpool; Lieut. 1st Batt. Herefordshire Regt. (T. F.) July 1, 1917; m. Nov. 16, 1899, Susannah, second daughter of the Rev. Edward James Talbot Laughlin, Rector of Willingham, Cambs.

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BURGESS, DANIEL, son of Rev. Daniel Burgess, Rector of Collingbourne Ducis, Wilts.; b.; adm. 1654 (Williams, Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Atterbury, 1864, i, 64, note); Magdalen Hall, Oxford, matr. 21 Feb 1661/2, aged 15, but did not graduate as he refused to conform; in Ireland 1667-74; Master of Charleville School, co. Cork; ordained priest by the Dublin presbytery; imprisoned in Marlborough Gaol 1674, for preaching in the neighbourhood; came up to London in 1685; minister to a large nonconformist congregation, which met successively in Brydges Street, Covent Garden, Russell Court, Drury Lane, and at a meeting-house built for him in New Court, Carey Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields; this building was gutted by the Sacheverell mob 1 Mar 1710, and subsequently repaired by the government; of great fame as a preacher, his quaintness and vivacity being new in a London pulpit; alluded to in nos. 62 and 228 of The Tatler; author, sermons and devotional books; m. Mrs Briscoe; d. 26 Jan 1713. DNB.

Burgess, Oliver Ireland, son of George Douglas Burgess, C.S.I., of Mandalay, Burma, by Agnes, daughter of Col. James Robert Sale Henderson, of Rangoon, Burma; b. April 22, 1893; adm. as K.S. Sept. 26, 1907; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies) July 1912, matric. Michaelmas 1912; exhibitioner (Mathematics) 1912; B.A. 1915; M.A. 1919; served in France May 1916 - Dec. 1917, and in Italy Jan. 1918 - Jan. 1919; Lieut. R.E. Field Survey Co. July 1, 1917; mentioned in despatches L. G. Jan. 6, 1919; asst. master Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk, Sept. 1919 -July 1920, and Marlborough College, Sept. 1920; killed in a motor accident March 19, 1930.

BURGH, THOMAS, son of Thomas Burgh DM, Coventry, medical practitioner; b.; at school under Markham; a contemporary at the School of Jeremy Bentham (qv) and of Edward Leigh, 2nd Baron Leigh (qv) (T. L. S. Sprigge, ed., Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, i, 12); Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. Oct 1760, aged 18.

BURGOYNE, ---; b.; in school list 1795.

BURGOYNE, JOHN, second son of Capt. John Burgoyne, Sherborne, Warwicks., and Anna Maria, dau. of Charles Burneston, Hackney, Middlesex; b. 4 Feb 1722/3; in school lists 1733, 1735-8; an intimate friend of James Smith Stanley, Lord Strange (qv); Cornet, 1st Royal Dragoons, 14 Jul 1743; Lieut., 22 Feb 1745; Capt., 1 Jul 1745; sold out 31 Oct 1751, on account of his debts, and resided for some years in France and Italy; re-entered Army as Capt., 11th Dragoons, 14 Jun 1756; Capt. -Lieut. and Lieut. -Col., 2nd Foot Guards, 10 May 1758; served in expeditions to Cherbourg and St. Malo 1758-9; raised 16th Dragoons and gazetted as Lieut. -Col. commandant, 4 Aug 1759; served in Portugal as Brig. -Gen., 1762; Brevet Col., 8 Oct 1762; Col. 16th Dragoons, 18 Mar 1763 - Oct 1779; Governor of Fort William 1769-79; Maj. -Gen., 25 May 1772; served in America 1775; present at battle of Bunker Hill; second in command under Sir Guy Carleton in Canada, 1776, in supreme command 1777; Lieut. -Gen., 29 Aug 1777; surrendered to Gates at Saratoga, 17 Oct 1777; allowed by Washington to return to England on parole, where he resigned his regiment and governorship; on the return of his political friends to power in 1782 became Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, 7 Jun 1782, holding post to 1784; Col., 4th Foot, from 7 Jun 1782; MP Midhurst 1761-8, Preston from 29 Nov 1768; proposed in 1772 that the East India Company should be controlled by the government; made a violent attack on Clive in May 1773, and was a manager of the impeachment of Warren Hastings, 1787; Privy Councillor (I) 4 May 1782; member, Society of Dilettanti, 1772; contributed to the Rolliad and Probationary Odes; author, The Heiress, 1786, and other plays; m. 1743 Lady Charlotte Stanley, sister of James Smith Stanley, Lord Strange (qv); d. 4 Aug 1792; buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

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