Sir Owen Tudor Burne, (1837–1909) was a British major-general known for his contributed volume ''Clyde and Strathnairn'' for the
Rulers of India series
The ''Rulers of India'' was a biographical book series edited by William Wilson Hunter and published from the Clarendon Press, Oxford. Hunter himself contributed the volumes on Dalhousie (1890) and Mayo (1891) to the series.
Background
William ...
published in 1891.
Born at Plymouth on 12 April 1837, he was eleventh child in a family of nineteen children of the Rev. Henry Thomas Burne (1799–1865), M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, by his wife Knightley Goodman (1805–1878), daughter of Captain Marriott, Royal Horse Guards.
Burne was commissioned into the 20th (The East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot in 1855 at the age of 18. He served in the
Crimean War
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Geopolitical causes of the war included the ...
(1854–1856), and took part in 15 actions during the suppression of the
Indian Mutiny (1857–1859), including the siege and capture of
Lucknow
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.
In 1861 he became Military Secretary to
Sir Hugh Rose (later Lord Strathnairn), Commander-in-Chief India, and from 1868 to 1872 was Private Secretary to Earl Mayo, Viceroy of India. Burne was a member of the
Council of India from 1887 to 1897.
He was promoted major-general in 1889, and in 1896 was made Knight Grand Commander of the
Order of the Indian Empire
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#Knight Grand Commander (GCIE)
#Knight Commander ( KCIE)
#Companion ( CIE)
No appoi ...
(GCIE).
Burne died after a long illness at his house in
Sutherland Avenue,
Maida Vale
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, on 3 February 1909. He was buried with military honours at Christchurch Priory, Hampshire.
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1837 births
1909 deaths
British biographers
Knights Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire
Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India