John Smith de Burgh, 11th Earl of Clanricarde

The Right Honourable The Earl of Clanricarde FRS FSA
Seaán de Búrca
Member of the Irish House of Lords
Hereditary Peerage 28 November 1726 – 21 April 1782
Preceded by	Michael Burke
Succeeded by	Henry de Burgh
Personal details
Born	John Smith Burke (1720-11-11)11 November 1720 Galway
Died	21 April 1782(1782-04-21) (aged 61) Portumna Castle, Galway
Resting place	Athenry, Galway
Nationality	Irish
Spouse	Hester Amelia Vincent ​ ​ (m. 1740⁠–⁠1782)​
Children	Lady Hester Amelia de Burgh Lady Margaret Augusta de Burgh Henry de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde General John Thomas de Burgh, 13th Earl of Clanricarde
Parents	Michael Burke Anne Smith
Alma mater	Winchester College

John Smith de Burgh, 11th Earl of Clanricarde FRS FSA (English: /dˈbɜːr/; d’-BER; English: /klænˈrɪkɑːrd/; klan-RIK-ard; né Burke, 11 November 1720 – 21 April 1782), styled Lord Dunkellin (/dʌnˈkɛlɪn/; dun-KELL-in) until 1726, was an Irish peer.

Background

Portumna Castle.

The Honourable John Smith Burke was born to Michael Burke, 10th Earl of Clanricarde and his wife Anne Smith in 1720. He was the couple's fourth and last child, and the heir to the earldom, having two older sisters. An older brother had died in infancy. He succeeded his father on the latter's death in 1726, at the age of six.

Career

Lord Clanricarde was educated at Winchester College. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1753. He was a Privy Counsellor of Ireland for eight days in 1761, being struck off the list of the Council on 16 July. He died on 21 April 1782 at Portumna Castle, County Galway and was buried in the Dominican friary, Athenry.

Marriage and issue

In 1740, he married Hester Amelia Vincent (d.1804), daughter of Sir Henry Vincent, 6th Baronet of Stoke d'Abernon. By Royal Licence on 13 May 1752, he and his uncles assumed the surname de Burgh which had been the family's surname in previous centuries: de Burgh was gaelicised in Irish as de Búrca which over the centuries became Búrc then Burke.

The couple had four children:

• Lady Hester Amelia de Burgh, who married William Trenchard
• Lady Margaret Augusta de Burgh, wife of Luke Dillon (d.1825) of Hall Place, Warnford, Hampshire. The couple's funeral hatchment survives in the Church of Our Lady, Warnford.
• Henry de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde
• General John Thomas de Burgh, 13th Earl of Clanricarde.

Honours and arms

Honours

Country	Date	Appointment	Ribbon	Post-nominals
United Kingdom	1753	Fellow of the Royal Society		FRS
United Kingdom	1753	Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries		FSA
United Kingdom	1761	Member of the Privy Council of Ireland		PC (Ire)

Arms

Coat of arms of John Smith de Burgh, 11th 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. Motto UNG ROY, UNG FOY, UNG LOY (One king, one faith, one law)

Ancestry

Ancestors of John Smith de Burgh, 11th Earl of Clanricarde
8. William Burke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde 4. John Burke, 9th Earl of Clanricarde 9. Lettice Shirley 2. Michael Burke, 10th Earl of Clanricarde 10. James Talbot (Jacobite) 5. Mary Talbot 11. Bridget de Bermingham 1. John Smith de Burgh, 11th Earl of Clanricarde 12. John Smith 6. John Smith 13. Mary Wright 3. Anne Smith 14. Sir Thomas Strickland, 2nd Baronet 7. Anne Strickland 15. Elizabeth Pile

See also

• House of Burgh, an Anglo-Norman and Hiberno-Norman dynasty founded in 1193

References

Bibliography

• Bourke, Eamonn (1995). Burke: People and Places. Whitegate and Castlebar: Ballinakilla Press and de Búrca Rare Books. ISBN 0-946130-10-8.
• 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.
• 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.
• Cokayne, G. E. (1889). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant (1st ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
• Cokayne, George Edward; Gibbs, Vicary (1910). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom (2nd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
• Cunningham, Bernardette (1996), "From Warlords to Landlords: Political and Social Change in Galway, 1540–1640", in Moran, Gerard; Gillespie, Raymond (eds.), Galway History and Society: Interdisciplinary Essays on the History of an Irish County, The Irish County History & Society Series, Dublin: Geography Publications, pp. 97–130
• MacMahon, Michael (1983). Portumna Castle and its Lords. Portumna: Shannon Books. ISBN 0-9538667-0-X.
• Woulfe, Patrick (1923). Irish Names and Surnames (in English and Irish). Dublin: M. H. Gill & Sons Ltd.

External links

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages