Christ's last command: A sermon, in behalf of the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, preached on Ascension Day, 1836, in the Parish ... the Deanery, and published at their request
John Burnet, FBA was a Scottish classicist. He was born in Edinburgh and died in St. Andrews.
Burnet was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, the University of Edinburgh, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he obtained first-class honours in Classical Moderations (Greek and Latin) in 1885 and in Literae Humaniores in 1887.