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James Burney (13 June 1750 – 17 November 1821) was an English rear-admiral, who accompanied Captain Cook on his last two voyages. He later wrote two books on naval voyages and a third on the game of whist. FamilyBurney was born in London, although he moved to King's Lynn as a small child.[1] He was the son of the composer and music scholar Charles Burney and his wife Esther Sleepe (c. 1725–1762). He was the brother of Charles Burney and of the novelist and diarist Fanny Burney, and half-brother of the novelist Sarah Burney, who kept house for him from 1798 to 1803.[2] VoyagesBurney's father obtained him a berth as a midshipman on Cook's Resolution, which sailed for the South Seas in June 1772. Back in England in 1774, he acted as interpreter for Omai, the first Tahitian to visit Britain. He witnessed Cook's killing in Hawaii in 1779. He was belatedly promoted, but in June 1782 commissioned captain of the 50-gun Bristol on a 12-ship convoy to Madras. He saw action as part of Sir Edward Hughes' squadron in the final engagement with the French fleet off Cuddalore on 20 June 1783. RetiredAt the end of 1784 Burney fell seriously ill and departed for England. This was the end of his active naval career. Repeated petitions for a new command were rebuffed, in part because of his openly republican political views. However, he became a prolific naval author, who enjoyed the friendship of Charles Lamb, Henry Crabb Robinson and other literary figures. Burney married Sarah Payne (1759–1832) on 6 September 1785, by whom he had three children, Catherine (1786–1793), Martin Charles (1788–1852), later a solicitor, and Sarah (1796 – post 1868).[3] However, he was separated from his wife and living with his half-sister from 1798 to 1803. He was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1809. In July 1821, aged 71, Burney was promoted to rear-admiral on the retired list after a personal intervention by the Duke of Clarence (later William IV), Admiral of the Fleet. He died on 17 November 1821 and was buried at St. Margaret's, Westminster.[4] A great whist player, he left a pamphlet on the subject. When he died, Lamb wrote to William Wordsworth: "There's Captain Burney gone! — What fun has whist now?"[5] Bibliography
Sources1. ^History of the Burney family in King’s Lynn - Lynn News Retrieved 2016-11-01. 2. ^ODNB entry: Retrieved 28 August 2011. Subscription required. 3. ^Joyce Hemlow etc., ed.: The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (London: OUP, 1972), Volume I, p. lxx. 4. ^The Royal Society{{dead link |date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. 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; The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, esp. Volume 4 (1973). Other information: ODNB entry. 5. ^Quoted in ODNB entry. 6. ^Bibliographical information taken from the British Library Integrated Catalogue: Retrieved 28 August 2011. External links
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