Charles Burney was an English composer and writer on music. He was born in 1726 and died in 1814. He studied under Dr. Arne, and soon obtained a reputation for his musical pieces. While organist at Lynn Regis he commenced his General History of Music. He wrote also several other valuable works. His second daughter, Frances Burney (Madame d'Arblay), published a memoir of her father. Research Charles Burney
Madame D'Arblay (born Frances Burney) was an English writer. She was born in 1752 at Lynn-Regis in Norfolk and died in 1840. She was the second daughter of Dr Burney, author of the History of Music. In 1786 she was appointed one of the keepers of the robes to Queen Charlotte; in 1793 married the Count D'Arblay, a French emigrant artillery officer, with whom she afterwards went to France, and who, on the restoration of the Bourbons, attained the rank of general. She gained considerable celebrity by her literary productions. These were mostly novels, of which she produced four: Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla, and the Wanderer. She published the memoirs of her father, which appeared in 1832, and her Diary, edited by her niece, was also published. Research Madame D'Arblay
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