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Dermot Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo

Dermot Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo

Irish peer (1851–1927)

Dermot Robert Wyndham Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo KP PC (Ire) (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).

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Life

He succeeded as Earl of Mayo on the death of his father Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo in 1872. In 1890 he was elected as an Irish representative peer and took his seat in the House of Lords.[1] 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.[2]

He owned 7,800 acres mostly in Kildare and Meath.[3]

Family

In 1885, he married Geraldine Sarah Ponsonby (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

  • Sport In Abyssinia: Or The Mareb And Tackazzee. London: John Murray, 1876.

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.[4][5]
Motto
A CRUCE SALUS (Salvation from the Cross)
Orders
Order of St Patrick

References

  1. [1]
    Maume, Patrick. "Bourke, Dermot Robert Wyndham-". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  2. [2]
    "Dermot Bourke". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 30 April 2009.
  3. [3]
    The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland
  4. [4]
    Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. pp. 2653–2655. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  5. [5]
    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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