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Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet (25 January 1770 – 23 January 1844) was a British politician and Member of Parliament who gained notoriety as a proponent (in advance of the Chartists) of universal male suffrage, equal electoral districts, vote by ballot, and annual parliaments.
Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet was an English politician and a zealous and courageous advocate of reform who more than once endured imprisonment for his radical views; he later lost interest in uprooting abuses and allied himself with the Conservative Party.
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Burdett, Sir Francis (1770–1844). A wealthy, patrician landowner, Burdett was an outstanding example of gentry or Tory-radical leadership of popular radical movements. For 30 years (1807–37) he was MP for the radical borough of Westminster, championing the cause of parliamentary reform and speaking out against corruption and patronage.
SIR FRANCIS BURDETT AND BURDETTITE RADICALISM J. R. DINWIDDY Royal Holloway College, University of London Nearly 50 years have elapsed since two book-length studies of Sir Francis Burdett were published, one of them a rather diffuse two-volume biogra phy which contained some valuable material from the Burdett family pap
Francis Burdett (1743–1794) was a member of the Burdett family of Bramcote which had a lineage of baronetcy. He failed to inherit the hereditary baronetcy, as he died in 1794, before his father's death in 1797.
Francis – named for his godfather, the English radical Sir Francis Burdett – was less politically extreme, but his devotion to overthrowing Spanish imperialism in South America was in the family tradition.
Burdett was one of the few members of the House of Commons who supported the idea of parliamentary reform at that time and became one of the leaders of the opposition to Liverpool's ministry in the 18-teens. Radicals in London approached Burdett and asked him to stand as their candidate for Middlesex.
