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{{Infobox writer
| name = Henry Burney
| pseudonym =
| image = Henry Burney.jpg
| birth_place = English
| birth_date = {{birth date|1792|2|27|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], [[India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1845|3|4|1792|2|27|df=y}}
| birth_name = Hunter ({{lang-en|Hunter}})
| spouse = Janet Bannerman
| children = 13
| occupation = diplomat
| nationality = English
| language = English
}}

'''Henry Burney''' (27 February 1792 – 4 March 1845)<ref>Holmes and Co. (Calcutta), [https://books.google.com/books?id=T-HwSiLns14C&pg=PA209 ''The Bengal Obituary''], London: 1851, W. Thacker, p. 209</ref> or '''Hantri Barani''' ({{lang-th|หันตรีบารนี}}) in Thai, was a [[Great Britain|British]] commercial traveller and [[diplomat]] for the [[British East India Company]]. His parents were [[Richard Thomas Burney]] (1768–1808), headmaster of the Orphan School at [[Kidderpore]], and Jane Burney (1772–1842),<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=T-HwSiLns14C&pg=PA208 ibid.], p. 208</ref> and he was a nephew of the English writer [[Frances Burney]] (1752–1840). On 30 June 1818 at St. George's Church in [[George Town, Penang]], [[British Malaya|Malaya]], he married Janet Bannerman (1799–1865),<ref name="gene">[https://www.mit.edu/~dfm/genealogy/bannerman.html "Descendants of James Bannerman"] — genealogy</ref> with whom he had 13 children, eight of whom were still living at the time of his death.<ref name="b209">[https://books.google.com/books?id=T-HwSiLns14C&pg=PA209 ''The Bengal Obituary''], p. 209</ref> She was the niece of [[John Alexander Bannerman]], who was governor of [[Penang]] in Malaya.<ref name="gene" />

Henry Burney died at sea in 1845 and was buried in Mission Burial Ground on Park Street in [[Kolkata|Calcutta]].<ref name="b209" />

==Career==
In 1807 Burney joined the East India Company. In 1818, the year of his marriage to Janet Bannerman, he was appointed [[lieutenant]] and [[adjutant]] of the 20th Regiment of [[Bengal Native Infantry]], [[Penang]]'s acting town-major and military secretary to Governor [[John Alexander Bannerman|Bannerman]].<ref name="gene" /> Later he worked as an agent of the East India Company, collecting material about [[Burma]] and [[Siam]], which he made available to England, while participating in the [[First Anglo–Burmese War]] (1823–1826). After his 1825 appointment as political emissary to Siam<ref name="gene" /> he met King [[Jessadabodindra|Rama III]] there the following year, concluding the [[Burney Treaty]] and a commercial contract to stimulate development of regional trade between Siam and Europe. Having negotiated a mutually agreed border between Siam and British-occupied [[Burma]], only the exact course of the border at [[Three Pagodas Pass]] in [[Kanchanaburi province|Kanchanaburi]] remained in dispute. From 1829 Burney was the British resident envoy to King [[Bagyidaw]]'s court at [[Inwa|Ava]] in Burma where he successfully negotiated the return of the [[Kabaw Valley]] from [[Manipur]] to Burma.<ref name="Hall">Hall, D. G. E. (1950) "Chapter XIII: The First Residency and the Annexation of Pegu (1826–1855)" [http://mission.itu.ch/MISSIONS/Myanmar/Burma/bur_history.pdf ''Burma''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050519230755/http://mission.itu.ch/MISSIONS/Myanmar/Burma/bur_history.pdf |date=19 May 2005 }} Hutchinson University Library, London, p. 108, {{OCLC|513262}}</ref> By 1834 he had risen to the rank of [[Lieutenant Colonel]]<ref name="gene" /> in the Bengal army.<ref>D.G.E. Hall, ''Henry Burney: A Political Biography'', Oxford Univ. Press, 1974</ref>

==Notes==
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==See also==
*Henry Burney. ''The journal of Henry Burney in the capital of Burma, 1830-1832,'' Univ. of Auckland, 1995, 121 pp. ({{ISBN|0908689500}})
*[[D.G.E. Hall]], ''Henry Burney: A Political Biography'', Oxford Univ. Press, 1974, 330 pp. ({{ISBN|0197135838}})
*[[D.G.E. Hall]], ''Burney's Comments on the Court of Ava'', London, 1957, 314 pp.
*Holmes and Co. (Calcutta), ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=T-HwSiLns14C&pg=PA209 The Bengal Obituary]: Or, a Record to Perpetuate the Memory of Departed Worth: Being a Compilation of Tablets and Monumental Inscriptions from Various Parts of the Bengal and Agra Presidencies, to which is added Biographical Sketches and Memoirs of Such as have Pre-Eminently Distinguished Themselves in the History of British India, Since the Formation of the European Settlement to the Present Time'', London: 1851, W. Thacker, pp. 208–9

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