Richard Burke, 8th Earl of Clanricarde

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The Right Honourable

The Earl of Clanricarde
Died1708
Spouse(s)(2) Anne Cheeke
(3) Bridget Dillon
ChildrenLady Dorothy Bourke
Parent(s)William Burke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde
RelativesJohn Burke, 9th Earl of Clanricarde (brother)

Richard Burke, 8th Earl of Clanricarde (English: /klænˈrɪkɑːrd/; klan-RIK-ard; died after 1708) was an Irish peer.

Galway Harbour

Career[]

Richard was the elder son of William Burke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde and appears to have been the first of the family to conform (to the Protestant faith), as Charles II wrote to his father congratulating him on "being thoroughly instructed in the protestant religion as it stands established, having forsaken that of Rome which hath always given jealousies to the crown." He was made Baron Dunkellin in 1680. His brother, Ulick, commanded a regiment of foot at the Battle of Aughrim where he was killed, aged twenty-two.

Clanricarde commanded a regiment of infantry during the Williamite War in Ireland and surrendered the town of Galway in July 1690. He was appointed Custos Rotulorum of County Galway. His sister Honora was married to the Jacobite leader Patrick Sarsfield.

Family[]

He married three times;

  • secondly Anne Cheeke, Countess Dowager of Warwick.[1]
  • thirdly Bridget Dillon, daughter of Henry, 8th Viscount Dillon.

With his first wife he had a daughter, Lady Dorothy Bourke, who married Alexander Pendarves[2] Lady Dorothy was educated at Priest's School, Chelsea, where she performed in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.[3]

He was succeeded by his brother John.

Arms[]

Coat of arms of Richard Burke, 8th Earl of Clanricarde
Burke (Clanricarde).png
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)[4]
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Earl of Clanricarde
1687–1708 		Succeeded by

References[]

  1. ^ "Anne Cheeke". The Peerage.
  2. ^ Lodge, John. The peerage of Ireland. 1. p. 139.
  3. ^ Croot, Patricia E C. "Social history: Education, private schools Pages 190-195 A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 12, Chelsea". British History Online. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  4. ^ 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.

Further reading[]

  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source][better source needed]
  • Portumna Castle and its Lords, Michael Mac Mahon, 1983.
  • Burke:People and Places, Eamon Bourke, Dublin, 1995.
  • From Warlords to Landlords:Political and Social Change in Galway 1540-1640, , in "Galway:History and Society", 1996.
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