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Born at Yorkshire, England in 1857, William A. Burman was persuaded to immigrate to Canada at the age of 18. After his arrival in Manitoba, he attended St. John’s College where he studied natural sciences and theology. In 1879 he was ordained deacon and was sent to the Sioux Reserve near Griswold (now the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation) to establish a mission. He worked there for ten years, became fluent in the Sioux language and very knowledgeable in the Indian work of the Church.
In 1886 he was appointed the first rural dean of Brandon, Manitoba. He organized and was the first head of the Rupert’s Land Industrial School at Middlechurch. He also helped build St. Peter’s mission in Winnipeg. Failing health forced him to give up parish work, and in 1903 he was appointed steward and bursar at St. John’s College, where he had been lecturing in botany and Biblical literature.
As an avid nature lover, he had a wide reputation as a botanist and became an examiner in botany for the University of Manitoba. He was also the founder of the Forestry and Horticultural Association of Manitoba which still promotes horticulture on the prairies. He served as the Manitoba Historical Society president from 1899 to 1901.
Burman died in Winnipeg on January 30, 1909.

Philip Burnett, of Montreal, was founder of the first dermatological clinic at the Royal Victoria Hospital in 1904. After attending Clifton College, Bristol, he graduated in medicine from McGill University in 1900 and continued postgraduate training in England, France, Germany and Austria before and after World War I. In 1901 he received the diplomas of L.R.C.P. and M.R.C.S. In 1914 he took an active part in the formation of the No. 6 Field Ambulance Corps and in the following year went overseas with the rank of major. While serving in France he was named consultant dermatologist to the Second Canadian Army. He was promoted to the rank of colonel during the war and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He was a charter member and the first president of the Montreal Dermatological Society, in 1930-31. In 1942 he retired as dermatologist at the Royal Victoria Hospital and also a professor of clinical dermatology at McGill University, an appointment he had held for many years. (Canadian Medical Association Journal v. 72, pg. 711, 1955 or v. 73, pg. 73, 1955)

The Centre is dedicated to the publication of complete, definitive scholarly editions of the journals and letters of Frances Burney (1752-1840) and the letters and memoirs of her father, the music historian Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814). The Burney Centre was founded in 1960, as the Burney Papers Project, by the late Joyce Hemlow. Dr. Hemlow, the author of The History of Fanny Burney (Clarendon Press, 1958), taught at McGill University from 1948 and served as Director of the Centre until her retirement in 1984. She was succeeded by Lars Troide, who in turn was succeeded in 2003 by the present Director, Peter Sabor.

The Centre works closely with the Burney Society of North America and the United Kingdom, and produces the Society's Burney Journal and Burney Letter.

From its inception, the Burney Centre has been supported by funding from McGill University. In addition, the Centre currently receives generous grants from, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Canada Research Chairs programme, and the Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture.

Charles Burney was an organist and music historian born on April 7, 1726, in Shrewsbury, England. He studied music and was first apprenticed as an assistant to his half-brother James, who worked at St. Mary's Church, Shrewsury, as an organist. In 1744, Charles became apprenticed to composer Thomas Arne and in 1746 was employed as a musician by Fulke Greville until his marriage to Esther Sleepe (approximately 1725-1762) in 1749. After his marriage, Burney worked as an organist and music instructor. Esther Burney died in 1762 and Charles Burney married Elizabeth Allen (1728-1796) in 1767, with whom he had two children. Burney recieved a DMus from Oxford University in 1769 after which he left on a musical tour of the European continent. As a music historian, he published numerous volumes throughout the 1770s and 1780s on European music. He suffered from ill health beginning in the 1790s and experienced a stroke that paralysed one hand in 1807. He died in 1814 in Chelsea.