Born Shrewsbury. Music historian. Father of Fanny Burney. In 1783 he was appointed organist at Chelsea College where he lived for the rest of his life, dying there in 1814.
See Caroline's Miscellany for his memorial in St Paul's Deptford.
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Dr. Charles Burney
plaque inside building at top of stairway directly facing entrance
The Rhymers' Club is not specifically mentioned on the plaque but Ye Olde Che...
Historian, statesman and a founder of the National Portrait Gallery.
Exists to remember, record and propagate among the wider British public the c...
The Voltaire Foundation is a research department in the University of Oxford,...
