 He spent a year travelling as a tutor to Lord Acton's son and in 1886 joined the teaching staff of Repton School where he stayed until he retired in 1923, becoming the Classical Sixth Form master.He stocked, almost from scratch, the school library there, making it one of the best in the country, and the Repton library building is still known as the Burd Library.Burd remained an active historical scholar throughout his teaching career.