Definition of Sir Richard Burton

1. Noun. English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika (1821-1890).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Sir Richard Burton

Sir Leslie Stephen
Sir Martin Frobisher
Sir Matthew Flinders
Sir Mortimer Wheeler
Sir Noel Pierce Coward
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge
Sir Oliver Lodge
Sir Patrick Manson
Sir Paul Gavrilovich Vinogradoff
Sir Peter Brian Medawar
Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Ustinov
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Ralph David Richardson
Sir Rex Harrison
Sir Richard Burton (current term)
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Sir Richard Owen
Sir Richrd Steele
Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler
Sir Robert Peel
Sir Robert Robinson
Sir Robert Walpole
Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister
Sir Ronald Ross
Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Sir Seretse Khama
Sir Stephen Harold Spender
Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan
Sir Thomas Gresham

Literary usage of Sir Richard Burton

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"SIR RICHARD F. BURTON (1821-1890) *T HAS sometimes been said that the roving propensities of Sir Richard Burton are attributable to a slight infusion of ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"... taught astrology to Sir Richard Burton the traveller and to the first Lord Lytton. With his pupils he was very popular, helping them in all ways, ..."

3. Contemporary Portraits by Frank Harris (1915)
"Sir Richard Burton RALEIGH, Sir Walter of that ilk, has always seemed to me the best representative of Elizabethan England; for he could speak and act with ..."

4. Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving by Bram Stoker (1907)
"XL Sir Richard Burton WHEN in the early morning of August 13, 1878, Irving arrived at Dublin, ... Sir Richard Burton."

5. Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving by Bram Stoker (1906)
"XL Sir Richard Burton A Face o] steel—Some pleasant suppers—Lord Houghton — Searching for Patriarchs — Edmund Henry Palmer — Desert law— The " Arabian ..."

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