Frederick Burnaby

Colonel Frederick Burnaby was a soldier, writer, covert intelligence officer, hot air balloonist, practical joker, and hero to a generation of Victorian England. He stood for parliament twice. He died at the Battle of Abu Klea in 1885. Poetry was written about it.

Colonel Frederick Burnaby was a soldier, writer, covert intelligence officer, hot air balloonist, practical joker, and hero to a generation of Victorian England. He stood for parliament twice. He died at the Battle of Abu Klea in 1885. Poetry was written about it. See less