Burn, Richard
BURN, RICHARD: Legal writer; b. at Winton
(37 m. s.e. of Carlisle), Westmoreland, 1709; d. at
Orton, Westmoreland (10 m. w. of Winton), Nov.
12, 1785. He studied at Queen's College, Oxford
(B.A., 1734); became vicar of Orton 1736, and
was justice of the peace for Westmoreland and
Cumberland; chancellor of Carlisle 1765. His
works include two standard treatises, The Justice
of the Peace and Parish Officer, comprehending all
the law to the present time (2 vols., London, 1755;
29th edition, enlarged, edited by Chitty and Bere,
6 vols., 1845; 30th ed., 1869); and Ecclesiastical
Law (2 vols., 1763; 9th edition, with additions,
by Phillimore, 4 vols., 1842).