Archibald Burns (other)
Archibald Burns may refer to: * Archibald Burns (photographer) (1831–1880), Scottish photographer * Archibald Burns (politician) (1867–1950), member of the New Zealand Legislative Council See also *Archibaldo Burns Archibaldo Burns Luján (7 April 1914 - 24 January 2011) was a Mexican writer and film director. He was born in Mexico City in 1914. His original name was Archibaldo Luján Zuloaga Moreno; the assumed surname Burns came from a Scottish ancestor ...

Archibald Burns (photographer)
Archibald Burns (1831–1880) was a Scottish photographer based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and active from 1858 to 1880. He documented the city through various publications and recorded the historic buildings in a section of the city that was cleared for improvements in the 1860s. Life and career Burns became active in photography as an amateur in the 1850s. He became a member of the Photographic Society of Scotland in 1858 and was one of the first members of the Edinburgh Photographic Society in 1861. He pursued primarily landscape and architectural photography and capitalized on new tourist markets for illustrated books and views in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Burns first professional photography studio was located at 22 Calton Stairs from 1861 to 1871, at which point he established his business at the Rock House until 1880. Through parts of 1870 and 1871, Burns shared the Rock House, which had earlier been the studio of important Scottish calotypists Hill & Adams ...
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Archibald Burns (politician)
The Hon. Archibald Burns (1867 – 22 December 1950) was a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council from 1934 to 1941. Thames Burns was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1867, to parents who had "arrived in the sixties". He started his own family by married Sophia McLaren in Melbourne in 1893. They'd go on to have four children: three daughters and a son. He moved to Thames, where he had a grocery store on Albert Street in the early 1900s. He was a member of the Thames Borough Council for many years, and was Mayor of Thames from 1905 to 1909. During his mayoralty, he became a justice of the peace. He was chairman of the Thames Hospital Trustees, a member of the Thames Hospital Board, a member of the Thames Harbour Board, and a board member of Thames High School. For 15 years, he was responsible for fire prevention in Thames. Auckland Afterwards, he was very involved with education issues in Auckland. He was chairman of the Auckland Education Board, a board member of ...
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