Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Burgess, William (1755?-1813)

by Gordon Goodwin

BURGESS, WILLIAM (1755?–1813), engraver, in conjunction with his son, Hilkiah, published a set of prints of the Lincolnshire churches, and of Lincoln and Ely cathedrals. To the profession of an artist he united that of a baptist minister, and presided over a congregation of that sect at Fleet in Lincolnshire for twenty years. He was also the author of a controversial pamphlet on the works of Dr. Adam Clarke. He died suddenly at Fleet on 11 Dec. 1813, in his fifty-ninth year (Gent. Mag. lxxxiii. ii. 701).

[Redgrave's Dictionary of Artists (1878), p. 62.]

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