Early Life
Burnham was born Old Roan, Aintree, Lancashire, the son of a telephone engineer father and a receptionist mother, and brought up in Culcheth, near Warrington where his family moved to when his father was promoted to a job in Manchester. He was educated at St. Lewis' Primary School and St Aelred's Roman Catholic High School in Newton-le-Willows before attending Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he read English Literature.
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