Family
Burney was born in London, the son of the composer and music scholar Charles Burney and his wife Esther Sleepe (c. 1725-1762). He was the brother of Charles Burney and the novelist and diarist Fanny Burney, and half-brother to the novelist Sarah Burney, who kept house for him from 1798 to 1803.
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