• Name: Burney, Captain James
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date: 13  June  1750
• Death Date: 17  November  1821
• Occupation: naval officer
• Occupation: writer

Burney was a sailor and he travelled with Captain James Cook on his second voyage of discovery in 1772. He later published A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean , 5 vols. (1803–17) and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1810. He was a friend of Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt and Henry Crabb Robinson.

Godwin recorded his death.

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