Rowland Burdon (Sedgefield MP)

Colonel Rowland Burdon, VD, DL, JP (19 June 1857 – 1 August 1944[1]) was an English landowner and Conservative Party politician from County Durham.

[7] Burdon had been nominated for the contest by Lord Londonderry, who told the selection meeting of the South East Durham Conservative Association that the candidate should be "well-known, popular, and living in the constituency".

[10] Standing as a Coalition Unionist (a supporter of the coalition government led by David Lloyd George), he won the newly created seat in a three-way contest, with a majority of 826 votes over the second-placed candidate, Labour Party candidate John Herriotts.

[12] In October 1947 his daughter Mrs Sclater-Booth presented the Castle Eden Vase to the British Museum, in his memory.

[13] The glass vase was a 6th-century Anglo-Saxon "claw beaker"[14] which had been found by a labourer working on a hedge on the Castle Eden estate in about 1775, in the time of his great-grandfather Rowland Burdon MP.