Career
The Castle Eden Vase (or Beaker) was found on his estate in about 1775, by a labourer working on a hedge. The glass vase was a 6th-century Anglo-Saxon "claw beaker" which had been buried beside the skull of human body. lieutenant 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).
He is mentioned in “Sunderland Bridge”, a poem which appears as "anonymous" in The Bishoprick Garland of 1834 by Sir Cuthbert Sharp.