Andrew Burnaby
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Infobox person Andrew Burnaby (16 August 1732 – 9 March 1812) was an English clergyman and travel writer, mainly about the American colonies and Italy.
Life
He was born in Asfordby, Leicestershire,<ref name=Lee>Template:Cite DNB</ref> on 16 August 1732,<ref>Parish register</ref> the eldest son and namesake of the Reverend Andrew Burnaby, a well-to-do clergyman of the Church of England. The young Burnaby attended Westminster School, and then Queens' College, Cambridge, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1754 and his master's degree in 1757. After taking his BA he was ordained.<ref name=Venn>Template:Acad</ref>
Shortly afterward he toured America, a trip which he later wrote up as a celebrated travelogue, Travels Through the Middle Settlements in North America, In the Years 1759 and 1760, which was published in 1775, and again in an enlarged form in 1798. He wrote about all of the things he saw in the colonies. His book avoids taking sides in the growing political struggles between the colonies and Britain, but he describes the discord among the states, the tensions between the colonists and the Indian tribes, and adverse "climate" in the south that "renders them indolent, inactive, and unenterprising... in every line of their character" as evidence that would prevent America from ever becoming a major power.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
After his return to Europe, he became Chaplain to the British mission at Leghorn in 1762. He was posted there for about five years, rising to become Proconsul (but actually doing the job of Consul), until his eventual resignation and return to England, where he was appointed vicar at Greenwich, Kent, from 1769. He wrote an account of his travels in Corsica and Italy in 1804, but this ran to only a few copies.<ref name=Lee/>
Burnaby was made Doctor of Divinity<ref name=Venn/> and Professor of Sacred Theology<ref name=BLG>P. Townend, ed., 1965, Burke's Landed Gentry, 18th edition, pp. 102–105. Burke's Peerage, London.</ref> at the University of Cambridge in 1776.
He married Anne Edwyn, daughter and heiress of John Edwyn of Baggrave Hall, Leicestershire, on 26 February 1770 at St George's, Hanover Square, London.<ref name=Wagner>A. R. Wagner, 1940, "Some of the Sixty-four Ancestors of Her Majesty the Queen". In: Genealogist's Magazine vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 7–13.</ref> This renewed his Leicestershire connection and he was made Archdeacon of Leicester in 1786. Their grandson, Edwyn Burnaby, was the maternal great-grandfather of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and, therefore, the great-great-great-grandfather of King Charles III.
Burnaby died on 9 March 1812 at Blackheath, Kent, and was buried at Hungarton, Leicestershire.<ref name="MI">Memorial inscription in Hungarton parish church</ref> Anne Edwyn was baptised on 15 October 1735 at Hungarton, Leicestershire,<ref name=Wagner/> and died there a few days after her husband, on 16<ref name=BLG/> or 19 March 1812.<ref name=Lee/><ref name=MI/>