Rowland Burdon (died 1838)

Rowland Burdon (c. 1757 – 17 September 1838)[1] was an English landowner and Tory politician from Castle Eden in County Durham.

The Castle Eden Vase (or Beaker) was found on his estate in about 1775, by a labourer working on a hedge.

[6] It was presented to the British Museum in October 1947 by his great-great-granddaughter Mrs Sclater-Booth, in memory of her father Rowland Burdon (1857–1944).

[7][8] Burdon is mentioned in "Sunderland Bridge", a poem which appears as "anonymous" in The Bishoprick Garland of 1834[9] by Sir Cuthbert Sharp.

(The poem also appears under the authorship of "M W of North Shields" in Rhymes of Northern Bards by John Bell (junior).