BURN, RICHARD English legal writer, was born at Winton, Westmorland, and died at Orton on Nov. 12, 1785. Educated at Queen's College, Oxford, he entered the Church, became (1736) vicar of Orton in Westmorland, and chancellor of the diocese of Carlisle (1765) . Burn's Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer has passed through innumerable editions. His Ecclesiastical Law (176o), was the basis of many modern commentaries on ecclesiastical law. The best edition is that by R. Phillimore (1842). Burn also wrote Digest of the Militia Laws (1760 and A New Law Dictionary (1792).