Burnes, Sir Alexander, born at Montrose, his father a cousin of Robert Burns; was an officer in the Indian army; distinguished for the services he rendered to the Indian Government through his knowledge of the native languages; appointed Resident at Cabul; was murdered, along with his brother and others, by an Afghan mob during an Insurrection (1805‒1841).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward * Burnet, Gilbert