Background
Born at Garrahill in County Carlow, he was the son of Thomas Burdett and his wife Catherine Kennedy, daughter of Sir Robert Kennedy, 1st Baronet.
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Thomas Thomas Burdett
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Education
Burdett was educated at Kilkenny College and Trinity College, Dublin and served as High Sheriff of Carlow in 1701.
Career
Burdett entered the Irish House of Commons in 1704, sitting for Carlow County to 1713. In 1725, he was appointed Governor of County Carlow, a post he held for the next two years. TG He married firstly Honora Boyle, daughter of Michael Boyle, Lord Chancellor of Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh in 1700.
She died ten years later and Burdett remarried Martha Vigors, daughter of Bartholomew Vigors, Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, in 1715.
Membership
Subsequently he was Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Carlow Borough until 1715 and then again for Carlow County until his death in 1727.
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Nationality
Irish