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John Southerden Burn
John Southerden Burn (3 July 1798 – 15 June 1870) was an English solicitor and antiquary.
Life.
Burn was the son of Captain John Southerden Burn of the Royal Marines and his wife Ann Ralph, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Ralph. He was born in Chatham on 7 July 1798 and baptised at Week Street Independent Chapel, Maidstone, on 21 July. He qualified as a solicitor in 1819, when he began to practise at 11 Staple Inn, Holborn in London. In 1820
this was later commuted to life imprisonment. She spent the rest of her life in at the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, dying there in 1907.
Poisoning spree.
Christiana Edmunds was born in Margate, Kent, and was the eldest child of William Edmunds, an architect who designed the local Holy Trinity Church and the Margate Lighthouse. Her mother was Ann Christiana Burn, the sister of John Southerden Burn and daughter of a Royal Marines captain. Edmunds had a privileged upbringing and was privately educated, but was diagnosed with