James Cecil Delisle Burns (1879 - 1942)

Born 26 Jan 1879 in St Kitts, West Indies

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret Alice (Hannay) Burns — married 21 Dec 1912 in St Mary the Virgin, Primrose Hill, Camden, London

Died 21 Jan 1942 at age 62 in Edgehill, Deepdene Park Road, Dorking, Surrey, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Cecil was born in 1879. He grew up on St Kitts and attended St Kitts and Antigua Grammar Schools. He then entered St Edmunds College in Ware, Hertfordshire with his brother Robert in 1895. In 1897 he went to Cambridge University to train to be a Catholic priest graduating with a first class BA in 1901. From 1901-1905, he completed his training as a priest in the Collegio Inglese, Via Monserrato in Rome. The 1911 UK census finds him listed as a University Lecturer living in Chelsea, London.

Cecil married Margaret Hannay in 1912. He was declared unfit for service during the 1914-18 war due to TB and worked in the censorship department of the War Office until 1917. From 1924 onwards, he became a lecturer and writer in logic and philosophy at Birbeck College, London School of Economics and the Chair of Citizenship at Glasgow University.

He died in January 1942 of tuberculosis. Probate was granted for his estate on 02 June 1942.

Sources

• "Saint Kitts and Nevis, Civil Registration, 1859-1932", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6CTL-W979 : 29 September 2021), Jas Cecil Burns, 1879.
• "England and Wales Census, 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XW25-DZB : 16 May 2019), Cecil Delisle Burns in household of John Ross, Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom; from "1911 England and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 14, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
• Free BMD database online. Marriages Dec 1912. Burns Cecil D. Hanney Hampstead 1a 1497. https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=dGYDbpvEQg90caT0KYBLrg&scan=1. Accessed 27 February 2023.
• 1939 UK Register, database online. Dorking, Surrey, England. Street address: Edgehill, Deepdene Park Road. Registration District: 34/5. ED DMFG, Schedule Number 91, sub-schedule 1. Accessed online through Ancestry.co.uk on 07 March 2020
• Free BMD database online. Deaths Mar 1942. Burns Cecil J. P. D. 62 Surrey S.E. 2a 1240. https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=E5HKQT5X4VYLq6%2FAW4RWvw&scan=1. Accessed 27 Feb 2023.

See Also

• Holmes a Court, Polly. Holmes a Court family database online; http://www.holmesacourt.org/hac/3/7460.htm. Accessed 29 November 2018
• Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia. "Cecil Delisle Burns"; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Delisle_Burns. Accessed 29 November 2018