Charles Burney (schoolmaster)
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Portrait of Charles Burney, 1821 | |
| Born | 4 December 1757 King's Lynn, England |
| Died | 28 December 1817 (aged 60) London, England |
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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.