Bartholomew Purdon (–1737) was a County Cork landowner and a long-serving member of the Irish House of Commons. He was also a

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and served as Deputy Lord Lieutenant of County Cork for many years. He was High Sheriff of County Cork in 1708–9. He was born at Ballyclogh, County Cork, the son of Caption Bartholomew Purdon senior and his wife Alicia Jephson, daughter of Major-General William Jephson of Mallow Castle, County Cork and Alicia Dynham of

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.''Burke's Peerage'' p.893 He had at least one sister Alicia, who married Colonel Thomas Phayre of Mountpleasant, a younger son of the regicide Colonel

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. His paternal grandfather Sir Nicholas Purdon (died 1678) founded the Ballyclogh branch of the prominent Purdon family of County Clare, who were of English origin, and who settled in Ireland in the sixteenth century. He sat in the Irish House of Commons as MP for

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1651-6. Sir Nicholas's wife was Alice or Ellis Stephens, daughter of Henry Stephens of County Cork. The barrister and politician

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(died 1737), only son of Adam Purdon, was Bartholomew's first cousin.White p.139Ballyclogh Tower House, the family home, was burnt in the 1690s, and not rebuilt till much later. Bartholomew's father fought on the Williamite side during the Williamite War in Ireland:King pp.357-8he was captured by Government forces at Loughrea in late 1688, and imprisoned at Galway. He had surrendered on promise of mercy, and though sentenced to death for treason he was reprieved.King pp.357-8He died soon afterwards, still under confinement at Galway. Bartholomew junior was MP for Mallow 1703–1713; for

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1713–14; and for Castlemartyr from 1715 to 1727, and again from 1727 until his death in 1737. He married in 1699 Anne Coote, daughter of Colonel Chidley Coote and his wife Catherine Sandys. They were distant cousins, Anne being descended from Margaret Purdon, who married Thomas Jones,

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. The marriage provided a useful connection to the leading statesman Henry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon, who married Anne's sister Catherine. They had one daughter Anne, who married firstly in 1730 her cousin, Robert Coote (died 1745), son of the Reverend Chidley Coote and Jane Evans, (and brother of General Sir

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), by whom she had six children. The best known of their children was their second son, the banker Bartholomew Coote-Purdon (1736–1780), who took his maternal grandfather's surname.Alden pp.33-4Anne married secondly William Cole, sometime after 1745. The inscription on Bartholomew's tomb, commissioned by his wife, described him as a man who in his thirty-nine years of public service "strictly observed justice, faithfully served his King and was a patriot to his country".

Sources

*Alden, John Richard ''Stephen Sayre: American Revolutionary Adventurer'': Louisiana State University Press 1983 pp. 33–4 *''Burke's Peerage'' 2003 Edition Vol.1 p. 893 *''Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society'' 1896 p.180 *

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'' The State of the Protestants of Ireland under the late King James's Government'' 1692 *White, James Grove ed. (1901) ''Historical and Topographical notes etc. on Buttevant, Castletownroche, Doneraile, Mallow and places in their vicinity'': Guy and Co, Cork

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Purdon, Bartholomew 1670s births 1737 deaths People from County Cork Irish MPs 1703–1713 Irish MPs 1713–1714 Irish MPs 1715–1727 Irish MPs 1727–1760 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Cork constituencies