(1911–63), British Foreign Office official and spy; full name Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess. Acting as a Soviet agent from the 1930s, he worked for MI5 while ostensibly employed by the BBC. After the war he worked at the British Embassy in Washington, under Kim Philby; charged with espionage in 1951, he fled to the USSR with Donald Maclean.
Definition of Burgess, Guy in US English:
Burgess, Guy
proper nounˈbərjəsˈbərdʒəs
(1911–63), British foreign office official and spy; full name Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess. Acting as a Soviet agent from the 1930s, he was charged with espionage in 1951 and fled to the former Soviet Union with Donald Maclean.