Charles Burney (schoolmaster)

Charles Burney
Portrait of Charles Burney, 1821
Born(1757-12-04)4 December 1757
King's Lynn, England
Died28 December 1817(1817-12-28) (aged 60)
London, England
Occupations
  • Writer
  • scholar

Charles Burney FRS (4 December 1757 – 28 December 1817) was an English writer and scholar. He was best known for his works on Greek literature. He was well-known for his Appendix to the Graeco-Latin lexicon (1789) and Remarks on the Greek Verses of Milton (1790). He was also a schoolmaster, clergyman, and chaplain to King George III. He kept a school for boys in Hammersmith and later Greenwich.