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Irish peer (1851–1927)

The Right HonourableThe Earl of MayoKP PC (Ire)
Senator
In office
11 December 1922 – 31 December 1927
Senate of Southern Ireland
In office
May 1921 – 27 May 1922
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Representative Peer of Ireland
14 July 1890 – 31 December 1927
Preceded byThe 6th Earl of Milltown
Succeeded byNone
Personal details
BornDermot Robert Wyndham Bourke
(1851-07-01)1 July 1851
Died31 December 1927(1927-12-31) (aged 76)
London, England
NationalityIrish
Spouse Geraldine Sarah Ponsonby ​ ​(m. 1885)​
Parent
EducationEton College
Military career
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service / branch British Army
Unit

Dermot Robert Wyndham Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo (English: /bɜːrk/; BURK; 2 July 1851 – 31 December 1927) was an Anglo-Irish peer, styled Lord Naas (/neɪs/; NAYSS) from 1867 to 1872, who served as an Irish representative peer in the British House of Lords (1890–1921) and member of the Senate of Southern Ireland (1921–1922) and Seanad Éireann (1922–1927).

Life

He succeeded as Earl of Mayo on the death of his father Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo in 1872. He was educated at Eton, and was an officer in the 10th Hussars and the Grenadier Guards. In 1890 he was elected as an Irish representative peer and took his seat in the House of Lords. He was appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 3 February 1905.

He was one of the four landlord representatives during the 1902 Land Conference. Between 1921 and 1922 he served in the Senate of Southern Ireland. He was nominated by W. T. Cosgrave to the Seanad of the Irish Free State on its formation in 1922. He was nominated for 12 years and served until his death in 1927.

He owned 7,800 acres mostly in Kildare and Meath.

Family

In 1885, he married Geraldine Sarah Ponsonby (b. 1863; d. 29 November 1944), who was the granddaughter of John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough, and the great-granddaughter of George Coventry, 8th Earl of Coventry.

Works

  • Bourke, Dermot (1876). Sport in Abyssinia: Or The Mareb And Tackazzee. London: John Murray.

Honours and Arms

Honours

Country Date Appointment Ribbon Post-nominals
 United Kingdom 1905–1922 Privy Council of Ireland PC (Ire)
 United Kingdom 1905–1922 Knight of the Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick KP

Ancestry

Ancestors of Dermot Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo
8. Hon. Richard Bourke
4. Robert Bourke, 5th Earl of Mayo
9. Frances Fowler
2. Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo
10. Hon. John Jocelyn
5. Anne Charlotte Jocelyn
11. Margaret FitzGerald
1. Dermot Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo
12. George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont
6. George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield
13. Elizabeth Ilive
3. Blanche Julia Wyndham
14. William Blunt
7. Mary Fanny Blunt

Arms

Coat of arms of Dermot Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo
Crest
A Cat-a-Mountain sejant guardant proper, collared and chained Or.
Escutcheon
Party per fess Or and Ermine, a cross gules the first quarter charged with a lion rampant sable and the second with a dexter hand couped at the wrist and erect gules
Supporters
On either side a Chevalier in complete Armour, holding in the exterior hand a Pole-Axe, all proper.
Motto
A CRUCE SALUS (Salvation from the Cross)
Orders
Order of St Patrick

See also

References

Citations

  1. Cokayne, G. E. (1893). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. Vol. 5 (1st ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. pp. 281.
  2. Maume, Patrick. "Bourke, Dermot Robert Wyndham-". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  3. "Dermot Bourke". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 30 April 2009.
  4. Bateman, John (1883). The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland; a list of all owners of three thousand acres and upwards ... also, one thousand three hundred owners of two thousand acres and upwards in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, their acreage and income from land culled from The modern Domesday book . Robarts - University of Toronto. London: Harrison.
  5. Cokayne, G. E. (1893). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. Vol. 5 (1st ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. pp. 281.
  6. Cokayne, G. E. (1893). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. Vol. 5 (1st ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. pp. 281.
  7. Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. pp. 2653–2655. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  8. 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.

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Preceded byRichard Bourke Earl of Mayo
1872–1927 		Succeeded byWalter Bourke
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