Marshall Burdekin
Marshall Burdekin 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.
