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Colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby (3 March 1842 – 17 January 1885) was a British Army intelligence officer. Burnaby's adventurous spirit, pioneering achievements, and swashbuckling courage earned an affection in the minds of Victorian imperial idealists.
19 de dez. de 2021 · BURNABY, FREDERICK GUSTAVUS (1842–1885), traveller and soldier, was born at Bedford on 3 March 1842, being the son of the Rev. Gustavus Andrew Burnaby of Somersby Hall, Leicestershire, and canon of Middleham in Yorkshire (who died on 15 July 1872), by Harriet, sister of Mr. Henry Villebois of Marham House, Norfolk (who died in 1883).
Colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby (3 March 1842 – 17 January 1885) was a British Army intelligence officer. Burnaby's adventurous spirit, pioneering achievements, and swashbuckling courage earned an affection in the minds of Victorian imperial idealists. As well as travelling across Europe and...
4 de mai. de 2024 · Biography and References. Soldier and traveller; born 3 March 1842, in Bedford. Cornet in Household Cavalry of British Army aged 16, rising to lieutenant 1862, captain 1866, lieutenant-colonel 1880 and command of regiment 1881; visited South America, Spain and Tangier 1868, Russia 1870, Spain 1874, Sudan 1875, Russia and Central Asia ...
Person. Dates. Existence: 3 March 1842 - 17 January 1885. Biography. Frederick Gustavus Burnaby was born in Bedford on 3 March 1842. Frederick who possessed a great sense of adventure, became a British Army intelligence officer and gained celebrity for his adventures across Spain and Russia as well as his balloon ascents.
Burnaby's exploits as a cavalry officer and explorer captured every schoolboy's imagination; over six feet four inches tall, he was reputed to be the strongest man in the British Army; his books about his adventures, including A Ride to Khiva, 1876, and On Horseback through Asia Minor, 1877, were bestsellers; in 1885 he took part in the relief e...
Colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby (3 March 1842 – 17 January 1885): an unreported trip to Russia and unattributed letters from Russia and Turkey. ‘Fred Burnaby, though picturesque and colourful, was a minor figure who missed by a hair’s breadth getting into the main channels of history.’. Louis Blake Duff, Burnaby, 1926.
