General The Right Honourable
The Earl of Clanricarde
PC (Ire)
Governor of Kingston-upon-Hull
In office
1801–1808
Preceded byHon. William Harcourt
Succeeded bySir William Medows
Personal details
Born
John Thomas de Burgh

(1744-09-22)22 September 1744
Died27 July 1808(1808-07-27) (aged 63)
NationalityIrish
SpouseElizabeth Burke
Children
Parents
RelativesHenry de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde (brother)
Military career
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service1793–1808
Rank
Commands held

General John Thomas de Burgh, 13th and 1st Earl of Clanricarde PC (Ire) (English: /dˈbɜːrɡ/; d’-BERG; English: /klænˈrɪkɑːrd/; klan-RIK-ard; 22 September 1744 – 27 July 1808), styled The Honourable until 1797, was an Irish peer and soldier who was Governor of County Galway (1798–1808) and a member of the Privy Council of Ireland (1801).

Career

Isle of Elba.

De Burgh raised the 88th Regiment of Foot, later renamed the Connaught Rangers, in 1793. Having commanded this regiment, he became Colonel of the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot (1794–1808) and later Governor of Hull (1801–1808). In 1796, he was in command in Corsica under Sir Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound as Viceroy of the Anglo-Corsican Kingdom and, with Commodore Horatio Nelson, planned an attack to re-take Leghorn (Livorno) in Tuscany. He subsequently removed the remaining military detachments from Corsica to Elba and evacuated the latter island in January 1797.[1] He was promoted to full General of the Army in 1803.[citation needed]

De Burgh was also a keen cricketer. He played for Surrey in 1773 but was possibly a guest player as his name only occurs a handful of times in match reports.[2] His contribution to the sport was as a Hambledon Club member. He joined prior to June 1772 when the club's minutes began; and was President of the club in 1784.[3]

After the death of his elder brother, Henry, 12th Earl and 1st Marquess of Clanricarde, in 1797, John inherited only the Earldom (of the first creation of 1543), not the Marquessate. In 1800, he was made Earl of Clanricarde (by a second creation) in the Peerage of Ireland, with a remainder, failing male issue of his own, to his daughters Lady Hester Catherine de Burgh (wife of Howe Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo) and Lady Emily de Burgh, and the heirs male of their bodies according to priority of birth.

de Burgh was elected as one of the 28 original Irish Representative Peers in 1800, and became a Privy Councillor in 1801.[4] He was made Governor and Custos Rotulorum (1798–1808) of County Galway.[5]

Family

Married to Elizabeth, a daughter of Sir Thomas Burke, 1st Baronet, he was succeeded by his son, Ulick John.[6] The couple also had two daughters, Lady Hester, Marchioness of Sligo, and Lady Emily, Countess of Howth.[7]

Burgh was a member of the Anglican Church, while his wife was a Catholic.[8]

Honours and arms

Arms

Coat of arms of John de Burgh, 13th 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.[9][10]
Motto
UNG ROY, UNG FOY, UNG LOY (One king, one faith, one law)

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ Nelson, A Dream of Glory, J.Sugden, Jonathan Cape 2004
  2. ^ Arthur Haygarth, Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 (1744-1826), Lillywhite, 1862
  3. ^ F S Ashley-Cooper, Hambledon Cricket Chronicle 1772-1796, Jenkins, 1924
  4. ^ Lodge, E. (1838) British Peerage, London 6th Ed
  5. ^ Debrett, John. The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. 1. p. 938.
  6. ^ Burke, E. (1912) The Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland, London
  7. ^ Chambers, Anne (2017). The Great Leviathan: The Life of Howe Peter Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo, 1788-1845. New Island. ISBN 978-1-84840-639-1.
  8. ^ "Landlord during the Workhouse Years". IrishWorkhouseCentre.ie. 19 November 2017.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ 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.
Military offices New regiment Colonel of the 88th Regiment of Foot 1793–1794 Succeeded byJohn Reid Preceded byJoseph Gabbett Colonel of the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot 1794–1808 Succeeded byOliver Nicolls Preceded byHon. William Harcourt Governor of Kingston-upon-Hull 1801–1808 Succeeded bySir William Medows Parliament of the United Kingdom New title Representative peer for Ireland 1800–1808 Succeeded byThe Earl of Clancarty Peerage of Ireland Preceded byHenry de Burgh Earl of Clanricarde 1st creation1797–1808 Succeeded byUlick de Burgh New creation Earl of Clanricarde 2nd creation1800–1808
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