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-Sir George Burns (1795–1890), shipowner
-Born on 10 December in Glasgow, the youngest of four sons of the Revd Dr John Burns (1744–1839) and his wife, Elizabeth, née Stevenson.
-Unlike their brothers George and his brother [[James Burns|James]] gave their attention to trade.
-they set up as general merchants in Glasgow
-they associated with Hugh Mathie of Liverpool to establish a small shipping line of six sailing vessels trading between Glasgow and Liverpool.
-Steamers soon replaced the sailings ships
-the firm [[G. and J. Burns]] in Glasgow joined with two Liverpool-based Scots, [[David MacIver|David]] and [[Charles MacIver]] to form the [[Glasgow Steam Packet Co]] to develop steamer services between Glasgow, Liverpool, Belfast and Londonderry.
 [[David MacIver]], who supervised the Liverpool branch of the [[British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Co]], died. His brother, [[Charles MacIver]], took over.<ref>The Engineer 1901/02/15</ref>