Obituary notices of fellows deceased

Mr. Burbury was born at Kenilworth in May, 1831, and was educated at Shrewsbury School, where he gained the highest prizes for his studies. He subsequently entered at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1854 as fifteenth Wrangler and second Classic, having previously gained the Craven Scholarship (for Classics) as well as the Porson Prize. About five years later he was called to the Bar, and it was not till about twenty years later that he commenced to specialise in mathematical science. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1890.