Michael Burke, 10th Earl of Clanricarde

The Right Honourable The Earl of Clanricarde PC (Ire)
Mícheál de Búrca
Governor and Custos Rotulorum of County Galway
In office 1712–1714
Preceded by	John Eyre
Succeeded by	John Ussher
Member of the Irish House of Lords
Hereditary Peerage 1722 – 28 November 1726
Preceded by	John Burke
Succeeded by	John Smith de Burgh
Personal details
Born	Michael Burke 1686 (1686)
Died	1726 (aged 39–40)
Nationality	Irish
Spouse	Anne Smith ​ (m. 1714⁠–⁠1726)​
Children	John Smith de Burgh Lady Anne de Burgh Lady Mary Bourke Hon. John Bourke
Parents	John Burke, 9th Earl of Clanricarde Mary Talbot
Alma mater	Eton College Christ Church, Oxford

Michael Burke, 10th Earl of Clanricarde PC (Ire.) (English: /klænˈrɪkɑːrd/ klan-RIK-ard; 1686–28 November 1726), styled Lord Dunkellin (/dʌnˈkɛlɪn/ dun-KEL-in) until 1722, was an Irish peer who was Governor of Galway (1712–14) and a Privy Counsellor in Ireland (1726).

Christ Church, Oxford

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. On his death, on 28 November 1726, he was buried in Christchurch, Dublin.

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

Honours

Country	Date	Appointment	Ribbon	Post-nominals
United Kingdom	1726	Member of the Privy Council of Ireland		PC (Ire)

Arms

Coat of arms of Michael Burke, 10th Earl of Clanricarde

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. Supporters Two Cats-a-Mountain sejant guardant proper, collared and chained Or. Motto UNG ROY, UNG FOY, UNG LOY (One king, one faith, one law)

Ancestry

Ancestors of Michael Burke, 10th Earl of Clanricarde

8. Sir William Burke 4. William Burke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde 9. Joan O'Shaughnessy 2. John Burke, 9th Earl of Clanricarde 10. Henry Shirley, 2nd Baronet 5. Lettice Shirley 11. Lady Dorothy Devereux 1. Michael Burke, 10th Earl of Clanricarde 12. Sir Henry Talbot 6. James Talbot 13. Margaret Talbot 3. Mary Talbot 14. Francis de Bermingham, 12th Baron Athenry 7. Bridget de Bermingham 15. Bridget Dillon

See also

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

References

Bibliography

• Bourke, Eamonn (1995). Burke: People and Places. Whitegate and Castlebar: Ballinakilla Press and de Búrca Rare Books. ISBN 0-946130-10-8.
• 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.
• Burke, Bernard (1884). The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time. University of California Libraries. London: Harrison & Sons.
• Cokayne, G. E. (1889). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant (1st ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
• Cunningham, Bernardette (1996), "From Warlords to Landlords: Political and Social Change in Galway, 1540–1640", in Moran, Gerard; Gillespie, Raymond (eds.), Galway History and Society: Interdisciplinary Essays on the History of an Irish County, The Irish County History & Society Series, Dublin: Geography Publications, pp. 97–130
• MacMahon, Michael (1983). Portumna Castle and its Lords. Portumna: Shannon Books. ISBN 0-9538667-0-X.
• "A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage". 15 December 2023.