George Burns

Major General Sir Walter Arthur George Burns, (29 January 1911 – 5 May 1997) was a British Army officer and native of Hertfordshire. Early life Burns was born on 29 January 1911 to art collector Walter Spencer Morgan Burns (1872–1929), and Ruth Evelyn Cavendish-Bentinck (1883–1978), who married in 1907. His sister was Cynthia Mary Burns, the first wife of Sir John Carew Pole, 12th Baronet. His father was a nephew of the prominent American banker J. P. Morgan and a grandson of Junius Spencer Morgan. His maternal grandparents were American heiress Elizabeth Livingston Cavendish-Bentinck (a daughter of Maturin Livingston Jr.) and William George Cavendish-Bentinck MP (a son of George Cavendish-Bentinck MP). Through his sister, he was an uncle to Sir Richard Carew Pole, 13th Baronet. Burns was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.