Viscount Mayo
Viscount Mayo is a hereditary British title of nobility awarded twice in the Peerage of Ireland .
Awards
The title was first awarded in June 1627 to the Irish ruler of County Mayo Tiobóid Bourke (Anglicized Theobald Bourke ), a descendant of Richard de Burgh . The title expired with the death of his descendant, the 8th Viscount, in 1767.
On January 13, 1781, the title Viscount Mayo , of Moneycrower in the County of Mayo , was newly created for the Irish politician John Bourke, 1st Baron Naas , a distant relative of the last Viscount. He had already been raised to Baron Naas , of Naas in the County of Kildare on August 1, 1766 , and was also raised to Earl of Mayo on June 24, 1785 . The Viscountcy has since been a subordinate title of the respective Earl of Mayo.
List of Viscounts Mayo
Viscounts Mayo, first bestowed (1627)
- Theobald Bourke, 1st Viscount Mayo († 1629)
- Miles Bourke, 2nd Viscount Mayo († 1649)
- Theobald Bourke, 3rd Viscount Mayo († 1652)
- Theobald Bourke, 4th Viscount Mayo († 1676)
- Miles Bourke, 5th Viscount Mayo († 1681)
- Theobald Bourke, 6th Viscount Mayo (1681–1741)
- Theobald Bourke, 7th Viscount Mayo († 1742)
- John Bourke, 8th Viscount Mayo († 1767)
Viscounts Mayo, second bestowal (1785)
- John Bourke, 1st Earl of Mayo , 1st Viscount Mayo (around 1705–1790)
- John Bourke, 2nd Earl of Mayo , 2nd Viscount Mayo (1729–1792)
- Joseph Bourke, 3rd Earl of Mayo , 3rd Viscount Mayo (around 1740–1794)
- John Bourke, 4th Earl of Mayo , 4th Viscount Mayo (1766–1849)
- Robert Bourke, 5th Earl of Mayo , 5th Viscount Mayo (1797–1867)
- Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo , 6th Viscount Mayo (1822–1872)
- Dermot Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo , 7th Viscount Mayo (1851–1927)
- Walter Bourke, 8th Earl of Mayo , 8th Viscount Mayo (1859–1939)
- Ulick Bourke, 9th Earl of Mayo , 9th Viscount Mayo (1890–1962)
- Terence Bourke, 10th Earl of Mayo , 10th Viscount Mayo (1929-2006)
- Charles Bourke, 11th Earl of Mayo , 11th Viscount Mayo (* 1953)
Heir apparent is the son of the current owner Richard Bourke, Lord Naas (* 1985).
Web links
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
- Mayo, Earl of (I, 1785) at Cracroft's Peerage