Buffard, Grace Lizzie, d 1984, nurse
Buffard trained at The Queen's Hospital for Children, Hackney, 1908-1911, and King's College Hospital, 1911-1914, and obtained General Nursing Council registration in 1922. She joined the Territorial Army Nursing Service, serving in Malta, and France and Germany during World War One. After the war, she returned to work at King's College Hospital. She died on 14 Nov 1984.
Bullough, Geoffrey, 1901-1982, Professor of English
Geoffrey Bullough born 27 January 1901, educated at Stand Grammar School, Whitefield and Manchester University, BA first class honours in English, 1922; MA English, 1923; teaching diploma, 1923; awarded Gissing Prize, 1921; Withers Prize in Education, 1923; John Bright Fellowship in English Literature, 1923-1924; master of Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth in Tamworth, 1924-1926; assistant lecturer in English Literature at Manchester University, 1926-1929; lecturer in English Literature at Edinburgh University, 1929-1933, Professor of English Literature at University of Sheffield, 1933-1946; Professor of English Language and Literature, King's College London, 1946-1968; Governor of Chelsea College of Science and Technology, 1952-1968; Fellow of King's College, 1964; honorary Doctor of Literature, Manchester, 1969. Died 1982.
Publications include: Narrative and dramatic sources of Shakespeare (Columbia U.P, 1957 and later editions), Philosophical poems of Henry More comprising Psychozoia and minor poems (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1931); Shakespeare the Elizabethan , (London, 1963); The trend of modern poetry (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1934) and The Oxford book of seventeenth century verse chosen by H.J.C. Grierson and G. Bullough (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1951).
Burch, Frederick Whitmore, 1893-1977, Major General
Born 1893; educated at Framlingham College; mobilised with York Troop, East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry, 1914; commissioned into the East Yorkshire Regiment, 1914; served World War One, 1914- 1918 on Western Front, Egypt and India; service with 12 (Service) Bn (3 Hull), East Yorkshire Regiment, 1914-1917; Lt, 1916; awarded MC, 1916; transferred to Indian Army, 1917; served with 7 Gurkha Rifles and 18 Royal Garwhal Rifles, 1917-1943; acting Capt, 1918; Third Afghan War, 1919; Capt, 1919; Brevet Maj, 1930; Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, General Staff, India, 1936; Brevet Lt Col, 1938; Assistant Military Secretary to Commander-in-Chief, India, 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Brig, 1941; Maj Gen, 1942; Director of Staff Duties, General Staff, India, 1942-1943; Head of Indian Army Liaison Mission to the Middle East, 1944-1945; awarded CIE, 1944; organiser of India's Victory Celebrations, New Delhi, 1946; Chief of Staff and Commander-in-Chief, Baroda State Forces, India, 1946; awarded CSI, 1946; retired 1949; Area Controller, Civil Defence, North East Essex, 1950-1964; raised and commanded North East Sector, Essex Home Guard (5 Bns), 1951; Chairman, Lexden and Winstree Rural District Council, 1959-1963; died 1977.
Burge, Ronald Edgar, b 1932, Professor of Physics
Born 1932; student at King's College London, 1950-1957; Assistant lecturer and later lecturer in Physics, King's College London, 1954-1962; Reader in Biophysics, 1962-1963; Head of Department of Physics, Queen Elizabeth College, 1963-1984; Head of Department of Physics, King's College London, 1984-1992; Vice-Principal, King's College London, 1988-1992.
Burgess, Frederick Josiah, fl 1831-1838, surgeon
Frederick Josiah Burgess was apprenticed to Mr H Sterry, Surgeon for the parish of St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey before becoming a pupil at Guy's Hospital for three years from 1831-1834. He acted as dresser to Mr Bransby Cooper, and then became private surgeon to CRM Talbot. He joined the army of Don Carlos in Spain, and became attached to the staff of the Commander in Chief for about 2 years. On his return to England he became assistant to Robert Smith, surgeon in Bishop's Waltham, and took on the practice as surgeon in 1838.
Burgon, Thomas, 1767-1837, merchant, antiquities collector and numismatist
Born in London 1787; merchant based in Smyrna, Turkey; member of the court of assistants for the Levant Company; married Catherine Marguerite de Cramer, daughter of the Austrian consul at Smyrna; returned to London, 1814; merchant and trading business failed, 1841; declared bankrupt, 1842; forced to sell collection of Greek antiquities to the British Museum to pay part of his debts, 1842; employed in Coin Room, Antiquities Department, British Museum; died, 1857.
Publications: An inquiry into the motive which influenced the ancients in their choice of the various representations which we find stamped on their money (London: J Wertheimer, 1836); ‘On a mode of ascertaining the places to which ancient British coins belong,’ Numismatic Chronicle v.1, Royal Numismatic Society, 1838; Prefatory Remarks, and Index, to the first and second portions of the Greek, Roman, and mediæval Coins and Medals [in the collection of T Thomas], 1844; ‘On two newly discovered silver tetradrachms of Amyntas, King of Galatia: with some remarks on the diminution in weight of the Attic drachma,’ The Numismatic Chronicle, and Journal of the Numismatic Society, v. 8, 1845-1846; ‘An attempt to point out the vases of Greece proper which belong to the heroic and Homeric ages,’ Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, 1847