Obituary notices of fellows deceased

Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson was connected on both his father’s and his mother’s side with men of great distinction. His father, Richard Burdon-Sanderson, of West Jesmond and Otterburn Dene, was the son of Sir Thomas Burdon, several times Mayor of Newcastle. His grandmother was a sister of John Scott, famous afterwards as Lord Eldon, and of William Scott, who became Lord Stowell. Richard Burdon went to Oxford for his University education, where he took first-class honours, obtained the Newdigate, and became a Fellow of Oriel College. He married the only daughter of Sir James Sanderson, Bart., M. P., who had been Lord Mayor of London; on his marriage he took the name of Sanderson. There were five children, two sons and three daughters; the eldest son, Richard Burdon-Sanderson, died from the effect of injuries received in the Abbott’s Ripton railway accident of 1876; one of the daughters married Robert Haldane, of Cloanden, and two of her sons, the Right Hon. Richard Burdon Haldane, M. P., and Dr. John Scott Haldane, F. R. S., are well known, the former for his great public services, the latter for his contributions to science. John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, the fourth child, was born at North Jesmond, Northumberland, on December 21, 1828; the old Manor House had become unsafe owing to the undermining of the adjacent collieries, and the new house at West Jesmond was being erected for the future residence of the family.