Andrew Burnaby

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Andrew Burnaby (1732 – March 9, 1812) was a clergyman and traveler.

Born in Ashfordby, Leicestershire, England, he was the eldest son and namesake of Reverend Andrew Burnaby, a well-to-do clergyman of the Church of England. The younger Burnaby attended Westminster School in 1748, and then Queens' College, Cambridge, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1754 and his Master's degree in 1757.

He spent 1759 and 1760 traveling though the American colonies. [Needs citation of his "Travels through the Middle Settlements".] Sometime afterward he was ordained, and from 1762 to 1767 he served as chaplain to the British factory in Leghorn, Italy. In 1769, soon after his return to England, he became vicar of Greenwich, and in 1786 archdeacon of Leicester. Upon his father's death in 1767 he inherited large estates in Huntingdonshire.

In 1770 Burnaby married Anna Edwyn. In 1775 he published a record of his travels through the American colonies, and in 1804 an account of his travels through Corsica.

Burnaby died in Blackheath, England.