Personal Life
Burns lived in Lisburn, in Northern Ireland, up to the age of five, and returned from London, where his father had worked as the editor of Hansard. He was educated at Dulwich College, a boys' independent school in South London, then at 13, attended Campbell College, a grammar school in Belfast.
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