Excerpt from A Sketch of the Career of Richard F. Burton: Collected From "Men of Eminence;" From Sir Richard and Lady Burton's Own Works; From the Press; From Personal Knowledge, and Various Other Reliable Sources Richard Burton's grandfather was the Rev. Edward Burton, Rector of Tuam in Galway (who with his brother, Bishop Burton, of Tuam, were the first of this branch to settle in Ireland). They were two of the Burtons of Barker Hill, near Shap, Westmoreland, who own'a common ancestor with the Burtons of Yorkshire, of Carlow, and Northamptonshire. Richard Burton's grandfather married Maria Margaretta Campbell, daugh ter, by a Lejeune, of Dr. John Campbell, LL.D., Vicar General of Tuam. Their son was Richard Burton's father, lieut.-colonel Joseph N etterville Burton, of the 36th Regiment, who married a Miss (beckwith) Baker, of Nottinghamshire, a descendant, on her mother's side. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.