The second son of Francis Burdett and brother of Sir Francis Burdett who drowned attempting to swim the falls of the Rhine in Switzerland.

REFERENCES TO Charles Sedley Burdett:

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 16 August 1828 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)