Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, was a British geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat; born on March 19, 1821 in Torquay, Devon, England; died on October 20, 1890 in Trieste, Austria-Hungary; a captain in the army of the East India Company; led an expedition to Lake Tanganyika for the Royal Geographical Society; attended Trinity College, Oxford, but did not graduate. Source: LCNAF.