Personal Life
Burn was a noted antiquarian. He collaborated with Joseph Nicolson to compile The History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland, published in 1777. The two-volume work relates information concerning the families, customs, architecture, and political and religious history of the two counties, and continues to be of great interest to family and local historians.
Burn married first in 1736 Eleanor Nelson (d. 1739) and second in 1740 Anne Kitchen. He and his wife Anne had one son, John, born in 1744.
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