Sir Roland Clive Wallace Burn was Secretary and Keeper of the Record to the Duchy of Cornwall from 1936 to 1954 and was Solicitor to Duchy of Cornwall from 1940.
11 Facts About Clive Burn
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Clive Burn was educated at Winchester College and then Oriel College, Oxford University.
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Clive Burn was admitted as a solicitor in 1912 and worked for the firm of Burn and Berridge until his appointment to the Duchy of Cornwall.
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Clive Burn played cricket for the Oxford University Cricket Club for four seasons from 1902 to 1905 as a slow left arm bowler.
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Clive Burn toured the United States and Canada with the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1905.
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Clive Burn served during World War I in the Sussex Yeomanry and the Machine Gun Corps as 2nd Lieutenant.
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Clive Burn attained the rank of Captain and served as an acting Major.
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At Gallipoli as a divisional machine gun officer, Clive Burn was ordered to assist in the withdrawal at Gully Beach and was the last person in the regiment to leave the peninsula.
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Clive Burn was wounded in the foot in March 1918 during the Germans' last offensive.
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Clive Burn was married to Phyllis Clive Burn from 1911 until his death in 1955.
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Clive Burn's father-in-law was Allen Stoneham who, with John Robinson Whitley, was instrumental in developing the golf and gambling resort of Le Touquet.