Richard Burgess

(1796-1881)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Burgess, Richard, 1796-1881 NRA: Burgess Richard (1796-1881) Prebendary of St Paul's Architectural Historian DNB: Burgess, Richard (1796–1881), Church of England clergyman LBT ID: RiBurge1881 VIAF ID: 71750967 LOC ID: n88256097	B/BAP: 1796-12-04 DIED: 1881-04-12
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English clergyman educated at St John's College, Cambridge, and author of The Topography and Antiquities of Rome, 2 vols (1831). He was probably the friend who sent Thomas Medwin the account of Shelley's interment.
REFERENCES TO Richard Burgess: Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Burial in Rome Found 1: ¶ 1