| Honorific-Prefix: | Lieutenant-Colonel | ||||||
| Lord Dunkellin | |||||||
| Office1: | Member of Parliament for County Galway | ||||||
| Term Start1: | 1865 | ||||||
| Term End1: | 1867 | ||||||
| Alongside1: | William Henry Gregory | ||||||
| Predecessor1: | Sir Thomas Burke, 3rd Baronet | ||||||
| Successor1: | Hubert de Burgh-Canning | ||||||
| Office2: | Member of Parliament for Galway Borough | ||||||
| Term Start2: | 1857 | ||||||
| Term End2: | 1865 | ||||||
| Alongside2: | Anthony O'Flaherty John Orrell Lever | ||||||
| Predecessor2: | Martin Joseph Blake | ||||||
| Successor2: | Michael Morris | ||||||
| Birth Name: | Ulick Canning de Burgh | ||||||
| Birth Date: | 1827 7, df=y | ||||||
| Birth Place: | London | ||||||
| Death Place: | London | ||||||
| Nationality: | British | ||||||
| Party: | Whig / Liberal | ||||||
| Alma Mater: | Eton College | ||||||
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Ulick Canning de Burgh, Lord Dunkellin (; ; ; ; ; ; 12 July 1827 – 16 August 1867) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and politician who served during the Crimean War and was Military Secretary to the Viceroy of India and MP for Galway Borough (1857–65) and County Galway (1865–67).
A statue was erected to him in Eyre Square, Galway in 1873 in honour of his military career, and political career as MP for Galway Borough and County Galway. However, the statue was torn down after Irish independence in 1922, partly on account of his brother Hubert de Burgh-Canning who was a notoriously unpopular landlord in County Galway.[1]
Dunkellin was the eldest son of Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde, and the Hon. Harriet, daughter of George Canning. He was educated at Eton.
Dunkellin entered the army in 1846 and was in the Coldstream Guards. He served as Aide-de-Camp to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (Lord Bessborough between 1847 and 1848 and then Lord Clarendon between 1848 and 1852) and then as State Steward to the Lord Lieutenant (Lord St Germans between 1852 and 1854). Subsequently, he served in the Crimean War and was taken prisoner during the Siege of Sevastopol in October 1854. He was appointed a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1854, and was awarded the Order of the Medjidie by Abdulmejid I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. In 1856, Dunkellin was Military Secretary to the Viceroy of India, his uncle Lord Canning, and also served as a volunteer on the staff during the Anglo-Persian War (1856-57). He retired from the Coldstream Guards in 1860.[2]
Dunkellin also sat as Member of Parliament for Galway Borough between 1857 and 1865 and County Galway between 1865 and 1867. Prominent as an Adullamite, he moved the amendment on the Parliamentary Reform Bill on 18 June 1866, which later led to the fall of the government of Earl Russell.[3]
After years of ill health, Lord Dunkellin died in London in August 1867, aged 40, predeceasing his father by seven years. He never married. His younger brother Hubert later succeeded in the marquessate.
| 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 with a label for difference. |
| 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] |