Henry Burney, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British soldier, diplomat and commercial traveller
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About Henry Burney
- Henry Burney (27 February 1792 – 4 March 1845) or Hantri Barani (Thai: ???????????) in Thai, was a British commercial traveller and diplomat for the British East India Company.
- His parents were Richard Thomas Burney (1768–1808), headmaster of the Orphan School at Kidderpore, and Jane Burney (1772–1842), and he was a nephew of the English writer Frances Burney (1752–1840).
- On 30 June 1818 at St.
- George's Church in George Town, Penang, Malaya, he married Janet Bannerman (1799–1865), with whom he had 13 children, eight of whom were still living at the time of his death.
- She was the niece of John Alexander Bannerman, who was governor of Penang in Malaya.Henry Burney died at sea in 1845 and was buried in Mission Burial Ground on Park Street in Calcutta.
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