Michael Burke, 10th Earl of Clanricarde explained

Honorific Prefix:	The Right Honourable
The Earl of Clanricarde
Honorific Suffix:	PC (Ire)
Native Name:	Mícheál de Búrca
Native Name Lang:	Irish
Order1:	Governor and Custos Rotulorum of County Galway
Term Start1:	1712
Term End1:	1714
Predecessor1:	John Eyre
Successor1:	John Ussher
Order2:	Member of the Irish House of Lords
Term Label2:	Hereditary Peerage
Term Start2:	1722
Term End2:	28 November 1726
Predecessor2:	John Burke
Successor2:	John Smith de Burgh
Birth Name:	Michael Burke
Death Date:	^[1]
Nationality:	Irish

Michael Burke, 10th Earl of Clanricarde PC (Ire.) (; ; 1686–28 November 1726), styled Lord Dunkellin (;) until 1722, was an Irish peer who was Governor of Galway (1712–14) and a Privy Counsellor in Ireland (1726).

Career

Burke was the son of John Burke, 9th Earl of Clanricarde and educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He was summoned to the Irish House of Lords to sit, during his father's lifetime, under the subsidiary and courtesy title of Lord Dunkellin. He was appointed Governor of Galway in 1712 and invested as a Privy Counsellor in Ireland on 15 July 1726.^[2] On his death, on 28 November 1726, he was buried in Christchurch, Dublin.^[3]

Family

He married, on 19 September 1714, to Anne Smith (d.1743), daughter of the House of Commons Speaker John Smith and the widow of Hugh Parker of Honington, warwickshire, who after her death in 1732 was buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey. They had 2 sons and 2 daughters:

• John Smith de Burgh, 11th Earl of Clanricarde
• Lady Anne de Burgh (died 1794) who married Denis Daly
• Lady Mary Bourke who married George Jennings
• Hon. John Bourke (died 1719)

Honours and Arms

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.^[4] ^[5]

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 . 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.
  • Book: MacMahon, Michael . Portumna Castle and its Lords . Shannon Books . Portumna . 1983 . 0-9538667-0-X . en.
• Web site: A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage . 15 December 2023 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage . 15 December 2023 .
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 . en.
3. Book: MacMahon, Michael . Portumna Castle and its Lords . Shannon Books . Portumna . 1983 . 0-9538667-0-X . en.
4. 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.
5. 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.