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……Lieutenant R. Burns Begg, of Kitchener's Horse, who has been appointed assistant officer (Intelligence Department) to General Maxwell, Military Governor of Pretoria, is a Fifeshire man [incorrect - he was from Kinross-shire], and was called to the Scottish Bar in 1895. He settled in Bulawayo two years ago, practising as a barrister before the High Court of Rhodesia. Last year he visited this country, and on his return to Cape Town found the railway to Rhodesia in the hands of the Boers. He then volunteered for active service, and obtained a commission in Kitchener's Horse.
Dundee Courier, Thursday 2nd August 1900
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……Lieutenant R. Burns Begg, who is now on the staff of General Maxwell, the Military Governor of Pretoria, is a grand-nephew of our national poet. Robert Burns Begg, sen., son of Mr John Begg and Isabella Burns, the poet's youngest sister, was for half a century schoolmaster of Kinross. His son, Robert Burns Begg, is Sheriff Clerk of Kinross-shire, whose elder son, Burns Begg, is now, as state above, on the staff of General Maxwell.
Evening Telegraph [Dundee], Friday 10th August 1900
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……At Pietersburg, on the 17th January, the trial by general court-martial of Lieutenants H. H. Morant, P. J. Hancock, Picton, and Wilton, all of the Bushveld Carbineers, was begun. The court was composed of Lieutenant-colonel Denny (president) and five other officers. Major Copland was Judge Advocate and Captain Burns-Begg Public Prosecutor
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Manchester Courier, Thursday 17th April 1902
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AMATEUR DRAMA AT KIRRIEMUIR.
……A successful repetition of Mr H. J. Byron's diverting comedy, "Our Boys," which was produced in Alyth last week by a distinguished party of amateurs, was given on Monday in the Public Hall, Kirriemuir. The performance, as on the former occasion, was arranged by the Bamff family in aid of the funds of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Families Association...…….Captain Burns Begg appeared to advantage as Kempster, a man servant.
Dundee Courier, Monday 30th April 1902
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……Captain Burns Begg, late of Kinross, who acted as prosecutor in the recent trial of the rebels in South Africa, is home at present on leave previous to taking up his new appointment as junior counsel in the High Court of Pretoria, which opens next month. The gallant Captain has been frequently in action at the front. A nephew of the Rev. Dr Begg, the greatly esteemed parish minister of Abbotshall, he was in Kirkcaldy on Thursday on a visit to his friends.
Evening Telegraph [Dundee], Saturday 3rd May 1902
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……A LEADING WITNESS AGAINST COLONEL LYNCH. - Captain Robert Burns-Begg, one of the chief Government witnesses in the case of "Colonel" Lynch, it may interest readers to know, is a grand-nephew of the Scottish national bard.
adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lynch-arthur-alfred-7270
Edinburgh Evening News, Friday 25th July 1902
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RESIDENT COMMISSIONER IN RHODESIA.
……We understand that the office of Resident Commissioner in Rhodesia has been offered to, and accepted by, Colonel R. Burns Begg, K.C., lately Commissioner of Police in the Transvaal. The appointment rests with the Imperial Government, and is held for two years.
Aberdeen Journal, Friday 24th February 1911
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COLONEL R. BURNS BEGG.
……The death has occurred at 9 Rothesay Place, Edinburgh, as the result of illness contracted in France, of Colonel R. Burns Begg, graded as Assistant Adjutant-General on the Staff. He was a member of the Faculty of Advocates, to which he was admitted in 1895, but he practised law in South Africa, and was a King's Counsel in the Transvaal. Before the outbreak of war he was Resident Commissioner of Southern and Northern Rhodesia, and resided at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Aberdeen Journal, Thursday 10th January 1918
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