Colonel Wainwright Montgomery Burns (or Colonel Burns) was the father of Clifford Burns. Clifford's own son (and Wainwright's grandson), Charles Montgomery Burns, it appears, Wainwright forcibly adopted Charles Montgomery Burns (and moving him one generation backwards) and is responsible for transforming him from a carefree boy into the miserly old man he is now so often perceived as. Many of Charles Montgomery's coldhearted characteristics are noticeable in Wainwright as well.
Biography
Wainwright Montgomery Burns was born in the 1810s to the wealthy Burns family. Due to his wealthy and upper-class upbringing, Wainwright grew to be a racist and villainous man. His unnamed assistant, who was shown in his manor house, is possibly an ancestor to Waylon Smithers. As of 1860, he owned a large plantation and also held a slave named Virgil who is directly related to Homer Simpson and his family. However, when Virgil was freed by the abolitionist Simpson family, Wainwright (known at the time as Colonel Burns) tracked him down to Hiram Simpson's cottage. He bribed Hiram with a pair of new shoes, and found Virgil in the tulip shed. However, Virgil was protected by Mabel Simpson. He was then threatened at gunpoint that if Colonel Burns ever crossed their ranch again, she would shoot him. A shaken Burns walked away the scene. [1]
Later on (possibly in 1895), Wainwright would forcibly adopt his grandson, Charles Burns, to be a greedy, heartless man like himself. [2]
In 1909, he took young Charles on a tour to his atom mill in Springfield.[3]
It is heavily hinted in "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble" that the reason for Wainwright to have specifically chosen Charles as his heir was due to him being left as the oldest of the Burns children, since his 10 older siblings had all died, the family fortune, according to Charles, "ended up smiling on him", leaving Clifford and Daphne with only their youngest son, George Burns.
Appearances
Episode – "Rosebud" (non-speaking role)(as a shadow)- Episode – "Last Exit to Springfield"
- Episode – "The Color Yellow"
- Book – The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album
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