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