Bartholomew Purdon (c.1675-1737) was a County Cork landowner and a long-serving member of the Irish House of Commons. He was also a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of County Cork for many years. He was High Sheriff of County Cork in 1708-9. He was MP for Mallow 1703-1713; MP for Doneraile 1713-14; and for Castlemartyr from 1715 to 1727, and again from 1727 until his death in 1737. The inscription on Bartholomew's tomb described him as a man who in his thirty-nine years of public service "strictly observed justice, faithfully served his King and was a patriot to his country".