SIR GEORGE BURNS, BART.,
... i Boais 1795. c __ I ?? One of the few remainin, human links connect- ing us with the eighteenth century is Sir George I Burns of Wemyss Bay, who so long occupied a conspicuous place in the foremost rank of the pioneers of steam navigation. It is now upwards t of thirty years since his retirement from active I business life, and the achievements of his earlier years are apt to be forgotten in ...