Born 25 January 1759, Alloway, Ayrshire
[Died] July 21, 1796. Dumfries. Scottish poet. Born into a poor farming family, he established his reputation as a lyric and satirical poet with Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786). He also helped J. Johnson collect, edit, and revise Scottish songs for his Museum of Scottish Music (5 vols., 87-97), and contributed many of his own compositions to Thomson's Anthology of Early Scottish Music (4 vols., 93-1805). While he made full use of the rough, earthy dialect, he also frequently used elegant verse forms such as heroic couplets and Spenserian stanzas. His major works include To a Mouse (85), Auld Lang Syne (88), Tam o'Shanter (90), The Banks of Doon (91), and A Red, Red Rose (96). Burns
Burns, Arthur Frank Born: April 27, 1904 in Stanislau, Austria
Died June 26, 1987. Baltimore, Maryland. Austrian-born American economist. He moved to the United States as a boy, and after graduating from Columbia University, he served as professor of economics at both Rutgers and Columbia. He was chairman of the White House Economic Advisory Committee under the Eisenhower administration from 1953 to 1956, and director of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) from 1957 to 1967. He became an advisor to President Nixon in 1969, and served as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board from 1970 to 1977, and was involved in drafting the suspension of gold-dollar convertibility in August 1971. He was deeply interested in policy issues such as economic fluctuations and inflation. His major works include Prosperity without Inflation (1957), The Management of Prosperity (66), and The Business Cycle in a Changing World (69). Burns
Byrnes, James Francis Born May 2, 1879 in Charleston, South Carolina.
Died April 10, 1972, Columbia, South Carolina. American politician. Self-educated in 1903, he entered the legal profession, served as a member of the House of Representatives (Democrat) from 1910 to 1925, a senator from 1931, and a Supreme Court justice in 1941. During World War II, he served as Director of the Bureau of Economic Stabilization and Director of the Bureau of War Mobilization. In 1945, he was in charge of foreign affairs as Secretary of State under President H. Truman, and attended many important international conferences, including the Potsdam Conference. At first, he was a supporter of cooperation with the Soviet Union due to his peaceful diplomacy policy, but through foreign negotiations he became a hard-line supporter of the Soviet Union, promising Western European countries that American troops would be stationed in Europe as long as the Soviet military threat continued. He was Governor of South Carolina from 1951 to 1955. Burns
Burnes, Sir Alexander Born 16 May 1805 at Montrose, Forfarshire
[Died] November 2, 1841. Kabul. British explorer and administrator. In 1821 he was a standard-bearer in the Bengal army. From 1823 to 1829 he was on a political mission in Kutch, and in 1831 he was dispatched to the upper reaches of the Indus River. The following year he traveled disguised through Peshawar and Kabul, to Bukhara, Mashhad, the Caspian Sea region, Tehran, and the Persian Gulf. In 1836 he was dispatched on a political mission to Dost Muhammad, King of Afghanistan. In 1839 he was recalled to Kabul and posted there, but was killed in a riot in 1841. His main work was "Map of Central Asia and Travels into Bokhara" (1834). Burns
Barnes, William Born 22 February 1801, Bagbar, Dorsetshire
[Died] October 7, 1886. Winterborn Keim English poet, linguist, and clergyman. He studied at Cambridge University and became the parish priest of Keim. He published Poems of Rural Life (3 volumes, 1844, 59, 63) in the Dorset dialect in an attempt to purify English from Latin vocabulary, and influenced Hardy and GM Hopkins. His other works include An Outline of English Speech-Craft (78). Burns
Barnes, Thomas Born: September 16, 1785, London
[Died] May 7, 1841. London. British journalist. After graduating from Cambridge University, he became acquainted with G. Hunt, C. Lamb, and W. Hazlitt, and contributed literary and theatrical critiques to the Reflector and the Examiner, while also contributing political commentary to the London Times. In 1817, he became editor of the London Times, and helped turn it into a high-quality paper that had a strong influence on shaping public opinion. Politically, he was quite radical, and represented the demands of the middle class in the electoral reform movement and other activities. Burns
Barnes, Sir Kenneth Born: September 11, 1878. Hebitori
[Died] October 16, 1957.
British theatre actor. Full name: Sir Kenneth Ralph Barnes. Brother of actresses Violet Vanbrugh and Eileen Vanbrugh. Principal of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London from 1909 to 1955, he trained many young actors. In 1952, he founded the Vanbrugh Theatre. He has written an autobiography, Welcome, Good Friends! (1958). Burns
Barnes, Barnabe [Born] Around 1569
[Died] 1609
English poet and playwright. Studied at Oxford University. Influenced by P. Sidney, he wrote sonnets such as Parthenophil and Parthenophe (1593) and the tragedy The Devil's Charter (1607). Burns
Burns, Anthony Born May 31, 1834 in Stafford, Virginia
Died: July 27, 1862, St. Catharines, Canada. A fugitive slave who escaped from slavery in Virginia before the American Civil War and finally achieved freedom. In 1854, he escaped and was captured in Boston, but later bought his freedom with money and became a Baptist minister in Canada. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia About Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Information |
