John Smith de Burgh, 11th Earl of Clanricarde explained

Honorific Prefix:	The Right Honourable
The Earl of Clanricarde
Native Name:	Seaán de Búrca
Native Name Lang:	Irish
Order:	Member of the Irish House of Lords
Term Label:	Hereditary Peerage
Term Start:	28 November 1726
Term End:	21 April 1782
Predecessor:	Michael Burke
Successor:	Henry de Burgh
Birth Name:	John Smith Burke
Birth Date:	11 November 1720
Birth Place:	Galway, Ireland
Death Place:	Portumna Castle, Galway, Ireland
Resting Place:	Athenry, Galway
Nationality:	Irish
Alma Mater:	Winchester College

John Smith de Burgh, 11th Earl of Clanricarde (; ; 11 November 1720 – 21 April 1782), styled Lord Dunkellin until 1726, was an Irish peer.

Background

The Honourable John Smith Burke was born to Michael Burke, 10th Earl of Clanricarde and his wife Anne Smith in 1720. He was the couple's fourth and last child, and the heir to the earldom, having two older sisters. An older brother had died in infancy. He succeeded his father on the latter's death in 1726, at the age of six.^[1]

Career

Lord Clanricarde was educated at Winchester College. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1753. He was a Privy Counsellor of Ireland for eight days in 1761, being struck off the list of the Council on 16 July. He died on 21 April 1782 at Portumna Castle, County Galway and was buried in the Dominican friary, Athenry.^[2]

Marriage and issue

In 1740, he married Hester Amelia Vincent (d.1804), daughter of Sir Henry Vincent, 6th Baronet of Stoke d'Abernon. By Royal Licence on 13 May 1752, he and his uncles assumed the surname de Burgh which had been the family's surname in previous centuries: de Burgh was gaelicised in Irish as de Búrca which over the centuries became Búrc then Burke.^{[3] [4] [5]}

The couple had four children:

• Lady Hester Amelia de Burgh, who married William Trenchard
• Lady Margaret Augusta de Burgh, wife of Luke Dillon (d.1825) of Hall Place, Warnford, Hampshire.^[6] The couple's funeral hatchment survives in the Church of Our Lady, Warnford.^[7]
• Henry de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde
• General John Thomas de Burgh, 13th Earl of Clanricarde.

Honours and arms

Honours

Country	Date	Appointment	Ribbon	Post-nominals
	1753	Fellow of the Royal Society		FRS
	1753			FSA
	1761			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.^[8] ^[9]

See also

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

References

Bibliography

• Book: Bourke, Eamonn . Burke: People and Places . Ballinakilla Press and de Búrca Rare Books . Whitegate and Castlebar . 1995 . 0-946130-10-8 . en.
• 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.
• 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.
• Book: Cokayne . George Edward . George Edward Cokayne . The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom . The Complete Peerage . Gibbs . Vicary . . 1910 . 2nd . London . en.
  • Book: MacMahon, Michael . Portumna Castle and its Lords . Shannon Books . Portumna . 1983 . 0-9538667-0-X . en.
• Book: Woulfe, Patrick . Irish Names and Surnames . M. H. Gill & Sons Ltd . 1923 . Dublin . en, ga.

Notes and References

1. Book: MacMahon, Michael . Portumna Castle and its Lords . Shannon Books . Portumna . 1983 . 0-9538667-0-X . en.
2. Book: MacMahon, Michael . Portumna Castle and its Lords . Shannon Books . Portumna . 1983 . 0-9538667-0-X . 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 . en.
4. Book: Cokayne . George Edward . George Edward Cokayne . The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom . The Complete Peerage . Gibbs . Vicary . George Bell and Sons . 1910 . 3 . 2nd . London . 235 . en.
5. Book: Woulfe, Patrick . Irish Names and Surnames . M. H. Gill & Sons Ltd . 1923 . Dublin . en, ga.
6. Cary's Itinerary, Hampshire 1815, pp.85-6https://oldhampshiremapped.org.uk/hantsmap/cary1/c085txt.htm
7. See image [File:Gifts for sale within Our Lady, Warnford - geograph.org.uk - 1582284.jpg]
8. 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.
9. 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.