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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thomas Ferrier Burns (21 April 1906 - 8 December 1995), publisher and magazine editor, was an important figure in mid-20th-century Catholic publishing in Britain.He was born in Chile, to a Scottish father and a Chilean mother, but was brought up in England and educated at Jesuit schools, first at Wimbledon College and then at Stonyhurst College. His first job, in 1926, was on the staff of the newly founded publishing firm Sheed & Ward. In 1935 he moved to Longman's. At Longman's he backed Graham Greene's project to write about the persecution of the Catholic Church in Mexico, which led directly to The Lawless Roads (1939) (US title Another Mexico), and indirectly to The Power and the Glory (1940).From 1940 to 1944 he was press attache to Sir Samuel Hoare, British ambassador to Spain. In 1944 he married a Spanish bride, Mabel Maranon, daughter of Gregorio Maranon. The couple had three sons and a daughter.

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