Sir Thomas Burdett, 1st Baronet
(14
September 1668 – 14 April 1727)[1]
was an Irish politician
and baronet.
Born at Garrahill in County
Carlow, he was the son of Thomas Burdett and his
wife Catherine Kennedy, daughter of Sir Robert Kennedy,
1st Baronet.[2] Burdett
was educated at Kilkenny
College and Trinity
College, Dublin and served as High
Sheriff of Carlow in 1701.[2]
Burdett entered the Irish
House of Commons in 1704, sitting for Carlow
County to 1713.[3] Subsequently
he was Member
of Parliament (MP) for Carlow
Borough until 1715 and then again for Carlow County
until his death in 1727.[3] On
11 July 1723, Burdett was created a baronet, of
Dunmore, in the County of Carlow, with a special remainder to the heirs
of his sister Anne, wife of Walter Weldon, who sat also in
the Parliament
of Ireland.[4] In
1725, he was appointed Governor of County Carlow, a post he held for the
next two years.[2]
He married firstly the twice-widowed Honora
Boyle, daughter of Michael
Boyle, Lord Chancellor of Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh and his
second wife Mary O'Brien, in 1700.[2] She
died ten years later and Burdett remarried Martha Vigors, daughter of Bartholomew
Vigors, Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin and Martha Neale, in 1715.[2] He
died, aged 58 and was succeeded by his only son, William, by his second
wife.[5]
References[edit]
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^ "Leigh
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May 2008. Retrieved 26
October 2009.
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a b Johnston-Liik,
Edith Mary (2006). MPs in Dublin: Companion
to History of the Irish Parliament 1692–1800. Ulster
Historical Foundation. p. 74. ISBN 1-903688-60-4.
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^ Beatson,
Robert (1806). A Political Index to the
Histories of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. III. London:
Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. p. 283.
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^ Burke,
John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic
History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire.
Vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley.
p. 179.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Burdett,_1st_Baronet,_of_Dunmore