The story
Named by its discoverer in 1909, after the place where it was found. It was found in or near the Burgess Pass, next to or on Mount Burgess, Yoho National Park, in the Canadian Rockies, by Charles Doolittle Walcott. As for which person with surname Burgess the pass and the mountain were named for, and the etymology of the surname Burgess itself, see Mount Burgess § History and see Burgess.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.