The only allusion to him I have ever seen in print is contained in a letter on _Lavengro_ contributed by Thomas Burcham to _The Britannia_ newspaper of June 26, 1851:--'With your criticism on _Lavengro_ I cordially agree, and if you were disappointed in the long promised work, what must I have been?
A schoolfellow of Borrow, who, in the autobiography, expected to find much interesting matter, not only relating to himself, but also to schoolfellows and friends--the associates of his youth, who, in after-life, gained no slight notoriety--amongst them may be named Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak; poor Stoddard, who was murdered at Bokhara, and who, as a boy, displayed that noble bearing and high sensitiveness of honour which partly induced that fatal result; and Thomas King, one of Borrow's early friends, who, the son of a carpenter at Norwich, the landlord of Lavengro's father, after working in his father's shop till nearly sixteen, went to Paris, entered himself as a student at one of the hospitals, and through his energy and intellect became internal surgeon of L'Hotel Dieu and private physician to Prince Talleyrand.' Thomas Borrow Burcham was Magistrate of Southwark Police Court from 1856 till his death in 1869.

He was the son of Maria Perfrement, Borrow's aunt..