Ulick John de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde

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Ulick John de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde

Ulick John de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde KP PC (born December 20, 1802 in Belmont , Hampshire , † April 10, 1874 in London ) was a British Whig politician of Irish descent who was named 1st Marquess of Clanricarde in 1825 in the peerage of Ireland was charged. After his elevation to Baron Somerhill, of Somerhill, in the County of Kent in the Peerage of the United Kingdom , he also became a member of the House of Lords in 1826 , of which he was a member until his death in 1874. He served as ambassador to Russia between 1838 and 1841 and was later postmaster general from 1846 to 1852 and in 1852 keeper of the lord seal .

Life

Ambassador, Postmaster General and Lord Seal Keeper

De Burgh was the only son of General John de Burgh, 13th Earl of Clanricarde and his wife Elizabeth Burke, a daughter of Sir Thomas Burke, 1st Baronet. His older sister, Hester Catherine de Burgh, was with Howe Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo , who was Governor General of Jamaica between 1834 and 1836 , while his younger sister, Emily de Burgh, was the wife of Thomas St Lawrence, 3rd Earl of Howth , who served as Lord Lieutenant of County Dublin between 1851 and his death in 1874 .

After his father's death on July 27, 1808, at the age of five, he inherited all the titles created in the Peerage of Ireland as 2nd Earl of Clanricarde, in the County of Galway , 12th Viscount Bourke of Clanmories, in the County of Mayo , 14th Earl of Claricarde and 14th Baron of Dunkellin . He completed his education from 1814 to 1818 at Eton College .

By a letters patent dated November 26, 1825, de Burgh was promoted to 1st Marquess of Clanricarde in the Peerage of Ireland and held the position of Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 1826 and 1827 , whereby he was a a close associate of his father-in-law, Secretary of State George Canning . After he was raised to Baron Somerhill, of Somerhill, in the County of Kent in the Peerage of the United Kingdom by a letters patent from July 4, 1826 , he was a member of the House of Lords until his death. As the successor to George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield , he became in 1830 ( Captain of the Queen's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard ) and thus captain of the monarch's bodyguard . He held this position until his replacement by Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford in 1834. In the meantime, on December 1, 1830, he also became a member of the Privy Council (PC) and at the same time took over the newly created post of Lord Lieutenant of County Galway in 1831 , the he held until his death in 1874. He also served as Vice-Admiral of Connaught .

De Burgh, who was knighted by St. Patrick (KP) on October 19, 1831 , took over the post of ambassador to Russia from John Ralph Milbanke in 1838 and held this post until his replacement by Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay 1841.

On July 7, 1846, de Burgh was appointed by Prime Minister John Russell to the postmaster general ( Postmaster General of the United Kingdom ) in his first government, which he belonged to February 21, 1852. In the first government of Prime Minister he held from February 3, 1858 to February 20, 1858 for just under three weeks the function of Lord Privy Seal .

Marriage and offspring

Ulick John de Burgh married on April 4, 1825 in the London borough of Brompton Harriet Canning, the daughter of the then Foreign Minister and later Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Canning and his wife Joan Scott . From this marriage there were five daughters and two sons.

The eldest daughter Elizabeth Joanna de Burgh emerged from this marriage was married to Henry Thynne Lascelles, who later became the 4th Earl of Harewood . The eldest son Ulick de Burgh, Lord Dunkellin was from 1857 until his death in 1867 a member of the House of Commons , where he initially represented the constituency of Galway Borough and from 1865 the constituency of County Galway . The second oldest daughter Emily Charlotte de Burgh was with Richard Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork married, two years as a member of the House of Commons, as well as several times as Master of the Buckhounds and as Master of the Horse offices in the royal court ( The Royal Household ) clothed. The fourth eldest daughter Margaret Anne de Burgh married Wentworth Beaumont, later 1st Baron Allendale , who represented the constituency of Northumberland South between 1852 and 1885 and, after a brief break from 1886 to 1892, the constituency of Tyneside in the House of Commons. His second son Hubert George de Burgh was also a member of the House of Commons between 1867 and 1871 as the successor to his deceased brother as a representative of the County Galway constituency and inherited the title of 2nd Marquess of Claricarde and the associated titles after the death of his father .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 18182, HMSO, London, October 8, 1825, p. 1813 ( PDF , accessed June 30, 2016, English).
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 18259, HMSO, London, June 17, 1826, p. 1478 ( PDF , accessed June 30, 2016, English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 18753, HMSO, London, December 3, 1830, p. 2537 ( PDF , accessed June 30, 2016, English).
  4. ↑ He was succeeded as Lord Lieutenant of County Galway in 1874 by Robert Dillon, 3rd Baron Clonbrock .
  5. ↑ London Gazette . No. 18863, HMSO, London, October 21, 1831, p. 2167 ( PDF , accessed June 30, 2016, English).
predecessor Office successor
New title created Marquess of Clanricarde
1825–1874 		Hubert George de Burgh
John de Burgh Earl of Clanricarde
1808-1874 		Hubert George de Burgh
New title created Baron Somerhill
1826-1874 		Hubert George de Burgh
personal data
SURNAME Burgh, Ulick John de, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician and peer
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Belmont , Hampshire
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1874
Place of death London