Rowland Burdon was an English landowner and Tory politician from Castle Eden

Castle Eden

For the similarly named castle in Aberdeenshire, see Eden Castle.Castle Eden is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated a short distance to the south of Peterlee, Wingate, the A19 and Castle Eden Dene...

 in County Durham

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He was elected at the 1790 general election

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 as one of the two Members of Parliament

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 (MPs) for County Durham

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, and held the seat until the 1806 general election

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, which he did not contest.

The Castle Eden Vase (or Beaker) was found on his estate in about 1775, by a labourer working on a hedge. The glass vase was a 6th century

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 Anglo-Saxon

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 "claw beaker" which had been buried beside the skull of human body.
It was presented to the British Museum

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 in October 1947 his great-great-granddaughter Mrs Sclater-Booth, in memory of her father Rowland Burdon

Rowland Burdon (1857–1944)

Colonel Rowland Burdon DL, JP, VD was an English landownder and Conservative Party politician from County Durham...

(1857–1944).