Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Burnand, Francis Cowley

by Thompson Cooper

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BURNAND, Francis Cowley, born in 1837, and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, was called to the bar in 1862. Mr. Burnand, who is the author of about a hundred dramatic pieces, principally burlesques, is on the Punch "staff," for which periodical his chief work has been the now well-known serial "Happy Thoughts." His burlesque of Douglas Jerrold's nautical drama, "Black-eyed Susan," achieved a "run" of 400 consecutive nights at the Royalty Theatre, Dean Street, Soho. In 1879 he published "The 'A.D.C.'; being Personal Reminiscences of the University Amateur Dramatic Club, Cambridge;" and in July, 1880, he became editor of Punch on the death of Mr. Tom Taylor.