Henry de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde

Henry de Burgh, Marquess of Clanricarde, KP, PC (Ire) ( ; 8 January 1742 – 8 December 1797), styled Lord Dunkellin until 1782 and The Earl of Clanricarde from 1782 until 1789, was an Irish peer and politician who was MP for County Galway and Governor and Custos Rotulorum of County Galway (1792–1797).

Career

Henry was the son of the 11th Earl of Clanricarde, and from 1753 to 1758 was educated at Eton College. In 1768 he was a Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons representing County Galway. He succeeded his father as Earl of Clanricarde (among other titles) on 21 April 1782, and became one of the founding Knights of the Order of St Patrick on 5 February 1783, and on 6 March of the same year was invested as a member of the Privy Council of Ireland.

From 1792 until his death on 8 December 1797, he was Governor and Custos Rotulorum of County Galway.

Family On 17 March 1785, he married Lady Urania Anne Paulet (1766–1843), daughter of George Paulet, 12th Marquess of Winchester, but they had no children. His widow subsequently married, on 28 October 1799, to Col. Peter Kingston (d.1807). She married for the third time, on 22 May 1813, to Admiral The Hon. Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke (1768–1831).

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