William Burdon (MP)

William Wharton Burdon (1803–1870) was an English Whig Member of Parliament who represented Weymouth and Melcombe Regis from 1835 to 1837.

[1][2][3][4][5][6] He was the son of William Burdon, and matriculated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1817.

[7] He resided at Hartford Hall, just outside Bedlington, a mansion built for his father by the architect William Stokoe.

[8] Burdon did not marry, and his estate went to Augustus Edward de Butts, a second cousin, who took the surname Burdon.

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