Royal Naval Biography/Burney, James
JAMES BURNEY, Esq.
[Commander.]
A son of the late Dr. Burney, of Gosport, co. Hants, who had the credit of having educated more naval and military officers, during the wars occasioned by the French revolution, than any other teacher in the kingdom.
This officer was made a lieutenant by the Board of Admiralty, on their visit to Portsmouth, in company with the allied monarchs, in the summer of 1814; appointed to the preventive service in the island of Sheppy, in Dec. 1821; advanced to the rank of commander on the 24th Dec. 1829; appointed to the Wasp sloop, July 19th, 1833; and removed to the Arachne sloop, on the West India station, in the month of December following. He married, Jan. 24th, 1822, at Weymouth, Mary, only daughter of P. L. Burnett, Esq.