20 Burdon Terrace, home of Thomas Burt

HER Number

13292

District

Newcastle

Site Name

20 Burdon Terrace, home of Thomas Burt

Place

Jesmond

Map Sheet

NZ26NE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

House

Site Type: Specific

House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

20 Burdon Terrace. Thomas Burt 1837 - 1922. Northumberland Miners' leader 1865 - 1913, M.P. for Morpeth 1874 - 1918, the first working class M.P. lived in this house from 1892 to his death.

Easting

425080

Northing

565800

Grid Reference

NZ425080565800

Sources

Ben Smith, 2010, Newcastle Commemorative Plaques (unpublished Word document); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Burt; Thomas Burt, 1924, An Autobiography; Satre, Lowell J, 1999, Thomas Burt, Miners' M.P. The Great Conciliator