 Burton endowed chairs in industrial relations in the University of Leeds and Cardiff in 1929 and Cambridge in 1930.He also endowed chairs of international relations in Jerusalem (1929), and at Oxford University (1930), the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (1936) and The University of Edinburgh (1948).He is commemorated in the Montague Burton Residences, which are student flats at the University of Leeds.