Henry de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde explained

Honorific Prefix:	The Most Honourable
The Marquess of Clanricarde
Honorific Suffix:	KP PC (Ire)
Native Name:	Annraoi de Búrca
Native Name Lang:	Irish
Order1:	Governor and Custos Rotulorum of County Galway
Term Start1:	1792
Term End1:	1797
Predecessor1:	Denis Daly
Successor1:	The Earl of Clanricarde Embed: yes Office2: Member of the Irish House of Lords Term Label2: Hereditary Peerage Term Start2: 21 April 1782 Term End2: 8 December 1797 Predecessor2: John Smith de Burgh Successor2: John de Burgh Office3: Member of Parliament for County Galway Term Start3: 1768 Term End3: 1768 Alongside3: Denis Daly
Birth Name:	Henry de Burgh
Birth Date:	8 January 1742
Birth Place:	Kensington, London
Nationality:	Irish
Alma Mater:	Eton College
Relatives:	John de Burgh, 13th Earl of Clanricarde (brother)

Henry de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde, KP, PC (Ire) (; ; ; ; 8 January 1742 – 8 December 1797), styled Lord Dunkellin (;) 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

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

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

Honours

Country	Date	Appointment	Ribbon	Post-nominals
	17831797			KP
	17831797			PC (Ire)

Arms

Crest:	A Cat-a-Mountain sejant guardant proper, collared and chained Or.
Escutcheon:	Or, a cross gules in the first quarter a lion rampant sable.
Motto:	UNG ROY, UNG FOY, UNG LOY (One king, one faith, one law)
Supporters:	Two Cats-a-Mountain sejant guardant proper, collared and chained Or.^[5] ^[6]

See also

• House of Burgh, an Anglo-Norman and Hiberno-Norman dynasty founded in 1193

References

Bibliography

• Book: Burke . John . John Burke (genealogist) . Burke . Bernard . Bernard Burke . 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 . 1844 . H. G. Bohn . en.
• Book: Burke, Bernard . Bernard Burke . The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time . 1884 . Harrison & Sons . London . University of California Libraries . en.
• Book: Cook . Christopher . Stevenson . John . British Historical Facts, 1760−1830 . The Macmillan Press . London and Basingstoke . 1980 . en.
• Book: Cokayne, G. E. . George Edward Cokayne . The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant . The Complete Peerage . . 1889 . 1st . London . en.

Notes and References

1. Book: Cook . Christopher . Stevenson . John . British Historical Facts, 1760−1830 . The Macmillan Press . London and Basingstoke . 1980 . 45.
2. Book: Cokayne, G. E. . George Edward Cokayne . The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant . The Complete Peerage . . 1889 . 1st . 2 . London . 260-1 . en.
3. Book: Cokayne, G. E. . George Edward Cokayne . The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant . The Complete Peerage . . 1889 . 1st . 2 . London . 260-1 . en.
4. Book: Cokayne, G. E. . George Edward Cokayne . The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant . The Complete Peerage . . 1889 . 1st . 2 . London . 260-1 . en.
5. Book: Burke . John . John Burke (genealogist) . Burke . Bernard . Bernard Burke . 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 . 1844 . H. G. Bohn . en.
6. Book: Burke, Bernard . Bernard Burke . The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time . 1884 . Harrison & Sons . London . University of California Libraries.