Burdett, Sir Francis, a popular member of Parliament, married Sophia, the youngest daughter of Thomas Coutts, a wealthy London banker, and acquired through her a large fortune; becoming M.P., he resolutely opposed the government measures of the day, and got himself into serious trouble; advocated radical measures of reform, many of which have since been adopted; was prosecuted for a libel; fined £1000 for condemning the Peterloo massacre, and imprisoned three months; joined the Conservative party in 1835, and died a member of it (1770‒1844).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Burder, George * Burdett-Coutts, The Right Honourable Angela Georgina, Baroness