Charles Burdett, Esq.
(1819-1880)
8 September 1862

Volume 9, page 147, sitting number 11,584.

Identified as 'Charles Burdett, Esq.' in the Silvy daybooks, this is probably Charles Sedley Burdett, who appears on the 1861 census living at Shrubhurst, Oxted, twenty miles from London in Surrey. A 41-year-old 'Landed Propietor and Fundholder,' he was married and, at the time of the census, had five daughters and two sons. The census also lists nine live-in servants, including a governess, a lady's maid, a nurse, a butler and a groom.  

Born on 17 December 1819, he was the third son of William Jones Burdett of Copt Hall, Twickenham. He joined the Army as a Second Lieutenant in the 60th (the King's Royal Rifle Corps) Regiment of Foot. He was promoted First Lieutenant in 1841and transferred to the Coldstream Guards the following year. He eventually retired with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and subsequently became Major in charge of the 17th Surrey Rifle Volunteer, resigning from that post in 1867. 

Charles Sedley Burdett, 'late of Shrubhurst Oxted in the County of Surrey a Lieutenant Colonel formerly in the Coldstream Guards,' died on 12 December 1880 at Shrubhurst. He left an estate valued at £8000. 

According to his brief obituary in the Pall Mall Gazette (16 December 1880): 'Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Sedley Burdett, of Shrubhurst, near Godstone, Surrey, died on Sunday last, at the age of sixty-one. He was brother of Sir Francis Burdett, of Ramsbury, Wilts, and Foremark, Derbyshire, and cousin of Lady Burdett-Coutts. He entered the army in 1836, and served with the Coldstream Guards in the Crimea. He was a magistrate for Surrey.'