Charles Burney FRS 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.
- Occupation
- etcher, classical scholar, classical philologist, bibliophile
- Born
- December 4, 1757, 1757
- Died
- December 28, 1817, 1817
