Henry de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde
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Governor and Custos Rotulorum of County Galway | |||||||||||||||||||||
In office 1792–1797 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Denis Daly | ||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | The Earl of Clanricarde | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Henry de Burgh 8 January 1742 Kensington, London | ||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 8 December 1797 | (aged 55)||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Irish | ||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse |
Lady Urania Anne Paulet
(m. 1785) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Relatives | John de Burgh, 13th Earl of Clanricarde (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Eton College | ||||||||||||||||||||
Henry de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde, KP, PC (Ire) (English: /dˈbɜːr/; d’-BER; English: /klænˈrɪkɑːrd/; klan-RIK-ard; 8 January 1742 – 8 December 1797), styled Lord Dunkellin (/dʌnˈkɛlɪn/; dun-KELL-in) until 1782 and The Earl of Clanricarde from 1782 until 1789, was an Irish peer and politician who was MP for County Galway (1768) and Governor and Custos Rotulorum of County Galway (1792–97).
Career
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Henry was the son of John Smith de Burgh, 11th Earl of Clanricarde and from 1753 to 1758 was educated at Eton College. In 1768 he was a Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons representing County Galway. He succeeded his father as Earl of Clanricarde (among other titles) on 21 April 1782, and became one of the founding Knights of the Order of St Patrick on 5 February 1783,[1] and on 6 March of the same year was invested as a member of the Privy Council of Ireland.[2]
From 1792 until his death on 8 December 1797, he was Governor and Custos Rotulorum of County Galway.[3]
Family
[edit]On 17 March 1785, he married Lady Urania Anne Paulet (d.1843), daughter of George Paulet, 12th Marquess of Winchester, but they had no children. His widow subsequently married, on 28 October 1799, to Col. Peter Kingston (d.1807). She married for the third time, on 22 May 1813, to Admiral The Hon. Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke (1768-1831).[4]
Honours and Arms
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1783 – 1797 | Knight of the Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick | ![]() |
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1783 – 1797 | Member of the Privy Council of Ireland | PC (Ire) |
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Ancestry
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See also
[edit]- House of Burgh, an Anglo-Norman and Hiberno-Norman dynasty founded in 1193
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ Cook, Christopher; Stevenson, John, eds. (1980). British Historical Facts, 1760−1830. London and Basingstoke: The Macmillan Press. p. 45.
- ^ Cokayne, G. E. (1889). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. Vol. 2 (1st ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. pp. 260-1.
- ^ Cokayne, G. E. (1889). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. Vol. 2 (1st ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. pp. 260-1.
- ^ Cokayne, G. E. (1889). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. Vol. 2 (1st ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. pp. 260-1.
- ^ Burke, John; Burke, Bernard (1844). Encyclopædia of Heraldry: Or General Armory of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Comprising a Registry of All Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, Including the Late Grants by the College of Arms. H. G. Bohn.
- ^ Burke, Bernard (1884). The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time. University of California Libraries. London: Harrison & Sons.
Bibliography
[edit]- Burke, John; Burke, Bernard (1844). Encyclopædia of Heraldry: Or General Armory of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Comprising a Registry of All Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, Including the Late Grants by the College of Arms. H. G. Bohn.
- Burke, Bernard (1884). The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time. University of California Libraries. London: Harrison & Sons.
- Cook, Christopher; Stevenson, John, eds. (1980). British Historical Facts, 1760−1830. London and Basingstoke: The Macmillan Press.
- Cokayne, G. E. (1889). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant (1st ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
- 1742 births
- 1797 deaths
- Irish MPs 1769–1776
- Knights of St Patrick
- Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Galway constituencies
- Members of the Privy Council of Ireland
- People educated at Eton College
- Politicians from County Galway
- House of Burgh
- Members of the Irish House of Lords
- Marquesses of Clanricarde
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