Dermot Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo

The Right Honourable
The Earl of Mayo
KP PC (Ire)
The Right Honourable The Earl of Mayo KP 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 by	The 6th Earl of Milltown
Succeeded by	None
Personal details
Born	Dermot Robert Wyndham Bourke; 1 July 1851
Died	31 December 1927 (aged 76); London, England
Nationality	Irish
Spouse	Geraldine Sarah Ponsonby (m. 1885)
Parent	Richard Bourke (father);
Education	Eton College
Military career
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	British Army
Unit	10th Hussars; Grenadier Guards;

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).

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.^[1] In 1890 he was elected as an Irish representative peer and took his seat in the House of Lords.^[2] 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.^[3]

He owned 7,800 acres mostly in Kildare and Meath.^[4]

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.^[5]

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^[6]		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.^[7]^[8] Motto A CRUCE SALUS (Salvation from the Cross) Orders Order of St Patrick

References

Citations

^ 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.
^ Maume, Patrick. "Bourke, Dermot Robert Wyndham-". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
^ "Dermot Bourke". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 30 April 2009.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. pp. 2653–2655. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
^ 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.

Bibliography

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.
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.
Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
Cokayne, G. E. (1893). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant (1st ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

External links

"Mayo, Earl of" . Thom's Irish Who's Who . Dublin: Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. pp. 162-163 – via Wikisource.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by The Earl of Milltown	Representative peer for Ireland 1890–1927	Succeeded by Position lapsed
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Richard Bourke	Earl of Mayo 1872–1927	Succeeded by Walter Bourke

[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.

[dib-2] Maume, Patrick. "Bourke, Dermot Robert Wyndham-". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 30 December 2023.

[oireachtas_db-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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