Burdett', Sir

FRANCIS, BART., a celebrated English politician, B. 1770. He sat in the British parliament for 40 years, as a Liberal of the most ultra type; was one of the earliest advocates of parliamentary reform, and suffered bitter persecutions at the hands of the Tory government of those times. He was twice imprisoned in the Tower of London for his out-spoken Liberalism, fined $5,000, and condemned to three months' further imprisonment in the King's Bench. Died in 1841. Burdett-Coutts, Barone ANGELA GEORGIANA, born in 1813, daughter of Sir Francis Burdett. Inherited from her grandfather, Coutts, the banker, an enormous fortune, which she devoted largely to works of phil an trophy. Burdett, (bur- det ',) in New York , a village of Tomp kins co., on Seneca Lake, 180 m. W. by S. of Albany. -A post-village of Schuyler co., about 3 m. from Watkins Glen. Burdick ville, in Michigan, a P. O. of Leelenaw co. Bur'dock, n. ( Bot.) See LAPPA.