Sir Robert Burdett, 3rd Baronet

Sir Robert Burdett, 3rd Baronet DL (11 January 1640 – 18 January 1716) He was oldest son of Sir Francis Burdett, 2nd Baronet and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Walter, some time a Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. In 1659, he went to Queen's College, Oxford and then was called to the bar by Gray's Inn in 1662. In Parliament he spoke unsuccessfully against the attainder of Sir John Fenwick, 3rd Baronet, who was beheaded shortly afterwards.

Family

Burdett married firstly Mary, only daughter of Gervase Pigot in 1666 and had by her a son and a daughter. After her death two years later, he married again Magdalen Aston, daughter of Sir Thomas Aston, 1st Baronet and granddaughter of Sir Henry Willoughby, 1st Baronet, in 1676. His third wife was Mary, daughter of Thomas Brome. Elizabeth, Robert's wife, however was pregnant at the time of his death and when her son Robert, named after his father, was born in May 1716, he succeeded to the baronetcy.