- Francis Burdett (1743)
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name = Francis Burdett
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caption = byJoseph Wright of Derby
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birth_date = 1743
birth_place = bapt.Foremark ,Derbyshire
death_date =3 February 1794
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residence =Foremarke Hall
nationality =English
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spouse = Eleanor Jones
children = Sir Francis Burdett and William Jones Burdett
parents =Sir Robert Burdett, 4th Baronet
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footnotes =Francis Burdett (1743-1794) was a member of the noble Burdett Family of Bramcote which had a lineage of
Baronetcy . He failed to inherit thehereditary baronetcy as he died; in 1794; before his father did; in 1797, thus he was only the son and father of two BramcoteBurdett Baronets . He is the subject of two notable paintings.Biography
Burdett was born in 1743A View of the Present State of Derbyshire, James Pilkington, 1789, accessed
14 June 2008 ] and baptised atForemark , a hamlet near his families ancestral home ofForemarke Hall . He was the son ofSir Robert Burdett, 4th Baronet and his first wife. His mother Elizabeth died when he was young on24 August 1747 and his father married again. When Burdett came of age his father was having the ancestral home of Foremarke Hall remodelled.Burdett was the brother in law of Francis Mundy and a member of the private "Markeaton Hunt". In 1762–3 Mundy commissioned a set of six portraits. Each of the subjects was in the distinctive dress of the Markeaton Hunt, consisting of a blue coat over a scarlet waistcoat and yellow breeches. These paintings hung at Mundy's ancestral home,
Markeaton Hall . [ [http://www.sothebys.com/liveauctions/sneak/archive/la_markeaton_0705.html Markeaton Portrait] , David Moore-Gwyn, Sothebys.com, accessed7 June 2008 ] Only a year or so leter there was another portrait byFrancis Cotes .Burdett married Eleanor Jones on
30 December 1766 . His children were Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Bt. on25 January 1770 and William Jones Burdett who was born in c 1772, William died on2 October 1840 after fathering the 6th Baronet. [ [http://www.thepeerage.com/p1669.htm Peerage.com] ]ee Also
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Burdett Baronets
*Foremarke Hall References
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