About John Burnaby
Lived 1891 – 1978 (aged 86). John Burnaby was a priest, director of studies and tutor.
John Burnaby (28 July 1891 – 6 March 1978) was an Anglican priest and Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.
Burnaby was educated at Haileybury College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in classics and won the Chancellor's Classical Medal in 1914. He was married to Dorothy Helen Burnaby, née Lock, the sister of Robert Heath Lock. He is buried with his wife in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge.
At one point Burnaby was appointed as one of Ludwig Wittgenstein's literary executors but he was later replaced.
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British priest
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John Burnaby was born on 28 July 1891.
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John Burnaby died on 6 March 1978.
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John Burnaby was a priest, director of studies and tutor.
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