Marshall Burdekin

{{Short description|Australian politician}}

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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.{{Australian Dictionary of Biography |title=Burdekin, Marshall (1837–1886) and Burdekin, Sydney (1839–1899) |id2=burdekin-marshall-3113 |first=Shirley |last=Humphries |volume=3 |year=1969 |accessdate=6 September 2020}}

He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Liverpool Plains at the 1863 by-election,{{cite NSW election |title=1863 Liverpool Plains by-election |year=1860 |district=LiverpoolPlains_1 |accessdate=6 September 2020}} transferring to The Williams at the 1864–65 election.{{cite NSW election |title=1864-5 The Williams |year=1864-5 |district=WilliamsThe |accessdate=6 September 2020}} In 1866 he was appointed Colonial Treasurer, but he was defeated at the ministerial by-election,{{cite NSW election |title=1866 The Williams by-election |year=1864-5 |district=WilliamsThe_1 |accessdate=6 September 2020}} and thus held office for less than a month. He returned to the Assembly at the 1867 by-election for East Sydney,{{cite NSW election |title=1867 East Sydney by-election |year=1864-5 |district=EastSydney_3 |accessdate=6 September 2020}} but he did not re-contest in 1869.{{cite NSW Parliament |title=Mr Marshall Burdekin (1837-1886) |id=715 |former=Yes |accessdate=16 June 2019 }}

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.{{Cite NSW Parliament |name=Mr Sydney Burdekin (1839-1899) |former=Yes |accessdate=5 May 2019 |id=743}}