Sir Owen Tudor Burne, (1837–1909) was a British major-general known for his contributed volume ''Clyde and Strathnairn'' for the

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published in 1891. 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. Burne was commissioned into the 20th (The East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot in 1855 at the age of 18. He served in the

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(1854–1856), and took part in 15 actions during the suppression of the

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(1857–1859), including the siege and capture of

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. In 1861 he became Military Secretary to

Sir Hugh Rose Field Marshal Hugh Henry Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn, (6 April 1801 – 16 October 1885) was a senior British Army officer. He served as a military adviser to the Ottoman Army who were seeking to secure the expulsion of the forces of Mehemet Al ...

(later Lord Strathnairn), Commander-in-Chief India, and from 1868 to 1872 was Private Secretary to Earl Mayo,

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. From 1876 to 1877, he was Private Sectretary to another Viceroy of India, Lord Lytton.C.E. Buckland, ''Dictionary of Indian Biography''. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1906, p. 62 Burne was a member of the

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from 1887 to 1897. He was promoted major-general in 1889, and in 1896 was made Knight Grand Commander of the

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(GCIE). Burne died after a long illness at his house in Sutherland Avenue,

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, on 3 February 1909. He was buried with military honours at Christchurch Priory, Hampshire.

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