Owen Tudor Burne

Sir Owen Tudor Burne, GCIE KCSI (1837–1909) was a British major-general known for his contributed volume Clyde and Strathnairn for the Rulers of India series published in 1891.[1]

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[2].

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 (1854-1856), and took part in 15 actions during the suppression of the Indian Mutiny (1857-1859), including the siege and capture of Lucknow[3].

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[3]. He was promoted major-general in 1889, and in 1896 was made Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (GCIE)[3].

Burne died after a long illness at his house in Sutherland Avenue, Maida Vale, on 3 Feb. 1909. He was buried with military honours at Christchurch Priory, Hampshire[2].