Marshall Burdekin, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian barrister and politician
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About Marshall Burdekin
- Marshall Burdekin (11 April 1837 – 10 November 1886) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sydney to merchant Thomas Burdekin and Mary Ann Bossley.
- Educated at Darlinghurst, he received a Master of Arts from the University of Sydney in 1859 and was called to the bar later that year.
- He had inherited a large fortune from his father in 1844.
- In 1863 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Liverpool Plains, transferring to Williams in 1864.
- In 1866 he was appointed Colonial Treasurer, but he was defeated at the ministerial by-election and thus held office for less than a month.
- He returned to the Assembly in 1867 for East Sydney, but he did not re-contest in 1869.
- Subsequently he lived mainly overseas, falling seriously ill in America in 1877 and suffering from ill health continuously until his death in England in 1886.
- His brother Sydney was also a colonial politician.
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