Returning to England in March 1875, he formulated his plans for a journey on horseback to the Khanate of Khiva through Russian Asia, which had just been closed to travellers. In the summer of 1874 he accompanied the Carlist forces in Spain as correspondent for The Times, but before the end of the war he was transferred to Africa to report on Gordon's expedition to the Sudan. Finding no chance for active service, his spirit of adventure sought outlets in balloon ascents and in travels through Spain and Russia with his firm friend, George Radford. He entered the Royal Horse Guards in 1859. Lionised by the press for his outlandish expeditious adventures across Central Asia, Burnaby at 6 ft 4 ins tall with broad shoulders was a giant amongst men, symbolic of a Victorian celebrity, feted in London society. His outsize personality and strength became the literary legend of imperial might. Burnaby was a huge man for his times: 6 ft 4in tall and 20 stone when fully grown. Legend has it he could carry two boys under both arms up the stairs of school house. Fred was educated at Bedford School, Harrow, Oswestry School, where he was a contemporary of William Archibald Spooner, and in Germany. He was a first cousin of Edwyn Burnaby and of Louisa Cavendish-Bentinck. His sister Mary married John Manners-Sutton. 15 July 1872), by Harriet, sister of Henry Villebois of Marham House, Norfolk (d. Gustavus Andrew Burnaby of Somerby Hall, Leicestershire, and canon of Middleham in Yorkshire (d. Frederick Burnaby was born in Bedford, the son of the Rev.
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