BURGES, GEORGE English classical scholar, was born in India. He had a great reputation as a Greek scholar, and was a somewhat acrimonious critic of rival scholars, especially Bishop Blomfield. He was a man of great learning and industry, but too fond of introducing arbitrary emendations into the text of classical authors. His chief works are : Euripides' Troades and Phoenissae ; Aeschylus' Supplices (1821), Eumenides (1822) and Prometheus (1831) ; Sophocles' Philoc tetes (1833); E. F. Poppo's Prolegomena to Thucydides an abridged translation with critical remarks; Hermesianactis Fragmenta (1839) . He also edited some of the dialogues of Plato with English notes, and translated nearly the whole of that author and the Greek anthology for Bohn's Classical library. He was a frequent contributor to the Classical Journal and other period icals, and dedicated to Byron a play called The Son of Erin or The Cause of the Greeks (1823).