There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Burke, both in the
Baronetage of Ireland
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. As of 2014 one creation is extant.
The Burke Baronetcy, of Glinsk in the County of Galway, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 2 August 1628 for Ulick Bourke. The third Baronet was a politician. The title became extinct on the death of the thirteenth Baronet in 1909. Two of his younger brothers both gained distinction.
Thomas Henry Burke was Permanent Under-Secretary at the Irish Office for many years while
Augustus Nicholas Burke
Augustus Joseph Nicholas Burke (28 July 1838 – 1891) was an Irish artist and an Academician of the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA).
Early life
Burke was born into the Galway Burkes of Glinsk and was the sixth son of William Burke of K ...
was an artist.
The family seat was
Glinsk Castle, near
Ballymoe
Ballymoe (historically ''Bellamoe'', from ) is a village in County Galway, Ireland. Ballymoe is situated on the western side of the River Suck that separates counties Galway and Roscommon. The N60 national secondary road meets the R360 reg ...
,
County Galway
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The Burke Baronetcy, of Marble Hill in the County of Galway, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 5 December 1797 for Thomas Burke. He raised an infantry regiment at his own expense during the
Napoleonic Wars
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. The second and third Baronets both sat as Members of Parliament for
County Galway
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. The fifth Baronet served as
High Sheriff of County Galway in 1883. The seventh Baronet was a
deputy lieutenant of County Galway. Three other members of the family may also be mentioned. Charles Granby Burke (1814–1898), second son of the second Baronet, was Master of the
Court of Common Pleas (Ireland)
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from 1852 to 1882. James Henry Burke (1816–1882), third son of the second Baronet, was a
major-general
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in the Bombay Engineers. His son James Henry Thomas Joseph FitzGerald Burke (1853–1902) was a
captain
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in the
Royal Navy
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.
The family seat was
Marble Hill House, near
Loughrea
Loughrea ( ; ) is a town in County Galway, Ireland. The town lies to the north of a range of wooded hills, the Slieve Aughty Mountains, and the lake from which it takes its name. The town's cathedral, St Brendan's, dominates the town's skyline ...
, County Galway.
Burke baronets, of Glinsk (1628)
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Sir Ulick Burke, 1st Baronet
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...
( – c. 1660)
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Sir Edmund Burke, 2nd Baronet (died c. 1686)
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Sir Ulick Burke, 3rd Baronet (died 1708)
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Sir John Burke, 4th Baronet (died c. 1724)
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Sir Festus Burke, 5th Baronet (died c. 1730)
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Sir Theobald Burke, 6th Baronet (died c. 1740)
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Sir Henry Burke, 7th Baronet (died 1748)
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Sir Ulick Burke, 8th Baronet (died 1759)
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Sir Henry John Burke, 9th Baronet (died 1814)
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Sir John Ignatius Burke, 10th Baronet
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...
(1784–1845)
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Sir Joseph Burke, 11th Baronet (1786–1865)
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Sir John Lionel Burke, 12th Baronet
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...
(1818–1884)
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Sir Theobald Hubert Burke, 13th Baronet (1833–1909)
Burke baronets, of Marble Hill (1797)
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Sir Thomas Burke, 1st Baronet (died 1813)
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Sir John Burke, 2nd Baronet
Colonel Sir John Burke, 2nd Baronet, DL (1782 – 14 September 1847) was an Irish soldier and Whig politician who was MP for Galway County (1830–2) and High Sheriff of County Galway (1838–9).
Background
He was the oldest and only sur ...
(1782–1847)
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Sir Thomas John Burke, 3rd Baronet (1813–1875)
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Sir John Charles Burke, 4th Baronet (1858–1880)
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Sir Henry George Burke, 5th Baronet (1859–1910)
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Sir Thomas Malachy Burke, 6th Baronet (1864–1913)
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Sir Gerald Howe Burke, 7th Baronet (1893–1954)
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Sir Thomas Stanley Burke, 8th Baronet (1916–1989)
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Sir James Stanley Gilbert Burke, 9th Baronet (born 1956)
The
heir apparent
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is the present holder's son Martin James Burke (born 1980).
See also
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Nuala na Meadóige Ní Fionnachta
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House of Burgh
The House of Burgh or Burke (; ; ; ga, de Búrca; la, de Burgo) was an ancient Anglo-Norman and later Hiberno-Norman aristocratic dynasty (with the Anglo-Irish branches later adopting the surname Burke and its variants) who held the earldom ...
, an
Anglo-Norman Anglo-Norman may refer to:
*Anglo-Normans, the medieval ruling class in England following the Norman conquest of 1066
*Anglo-Norman language
**Anglo-Norman literature
*Anglo-Norman England, or Norman England, the period in English history from 1066 ...
and
Hiberno-Norman
From the 12th century onwards, a group of Normans invaded and settled in Gaelic Ireland. These settlers later became known as Norman Irish or Hiberno-Normans. They originated mainly among Cambro-Norman families in Wales and Anglo-Normans fro ...
dynasty founded in 1193
Notes
References
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
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Baronetcies in the Baronetage of Ireland
Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of Ireland
House of Burgh
1628 establishments in Ireland