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 County Carlow to 1713.[3] Subsequently, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Carlow until 1715 and then again for County Carlow 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
- ^ "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 26 October 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b c d e "ThePeerage - Captain Sir Thomas Burdett, 1st Bt". Retrieved 22 March 2009.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Beatson, Robert (1806). A Political Index to the Histories of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. III. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. p. 283.
- ^ 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.
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