Burney, Charles, musical composer and organist, born at Shrewsbury; a friend of Johnson's; author of “The History of Music,” and the father of Madame d'Arblay; settled in London as a teacher of music (1726‒1814).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Burnett, Frances Hodgson * Burney, Charles