Bartholomew Purdon

Bartholomew Purdon (c. 1675–1737) was a County Cork landowner and a long-serving member of the Irish House of Commons.

He was born at Ballyclogh, County Cork, the son of Caption Bartholomew Purdon senior and his wife Alicia Jephson, daughter of Major-General William Jephson of Mallow Castle, County Cork and Alicia Dynham of Boarstall Tower, Buckinghamshire.

They were distant cousins, Anne being descended from Margaret Purdon, who married Thomas Jones, Archbishop of Dublin.

[1] The marriage provided a useful connection to the leading statesman Henry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon, who married Anne's sister Catherine.

[1] The inscription on Bartholomew's tomb, commissioned by his wife,[2] described him as a man who in his thirty-nine years of public service "strictly observed justice, faithfully served his King and was a patriot to his country".