Career
Burdon was ordained to the priesthood by the Bishop of London in December 1852. And resigned in 1896. He opposed Britain"s part in the Anglo-Chinese First and Second Opium Wars.
Burdon was a translator with Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky of the Book of Common Prayer.
She died the following year of cholera, also in Shanghai. The school, named Tong Wen Guan, was officially opened on 11 June 1862 and Burdon was hired as the first English instructor.
He died at Bedford on 5 January 1907, and was buried at Royston. Burdon was married three times: first, to Harriet Anne Forshaw on 30 March 1853, who died at Shanghai on 26 September 1854.
Second, to Burella Hunter Dyer, on 11 November 1857, who died on 16 August
1858. Third, to Phoebe Esther, daughter of East. T. Alder, vicar of Bungay on 14 June 1865. She died on 14 June 1898.
They had three sons.
