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About Frederick Gustavus Burnaby
Colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby was a British Army intelligence officer. Burnaby's adventurous spirit, pioneering achievements, and swashbuckling courage earned an affection in the minds of Victorian imperial idealists. As well as travelling across Europe and Central Asia, he mastered ballooning, spoke a number of foreign languages fluently, stood for parliament twice, published several books, and was admired and feted by the women of London high society. His popularity was legendary, appearing in a number of stories and tales of empire and having a song dedicated to him after death.
Everything about Frederick Gustavus Burnaby →- Occupation
- writer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- March 3, 1842, 1842
- Died
- January 17, 1885, 1885