# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cecil-burney
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:49:02.033Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cecil-burney"
name: "Cecil Burney"
slug: "cecil-burney"
description: "Admiral of the Fleet Sir Cecil Burney, 1st Baronet, was a Royal Navy officer. After seeing action as a junior office in naval brigades during both the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Mahdist War, he commanded a cruiser in operational service during the Second Boer War. As a flag officer he commanded the Plymouth Division of the Home Fleet, the 5th Cruiser Squadron, the Atlantic Fleet and then the 3rd Battle Squadron."
tagline: "Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (1858-1929)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vice_Admiral_Cecil_Burney_(7307714298).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1858-05-15"
deathDate: "1929-06-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.13
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.475198666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "سیسیل برنی"
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    title: "Cecil Burney"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Burney"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Burney"
    title: "Cecil Burney"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5055980"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump