Wednesday 13 February 2013
53 Thomas Burke
Constituency : County Galway 1847-65
Thomas was the son and heir of an Irish landowning baronet based at Marble Hill. His father had been MP for the constituency between 1830 and 1832. He was also a relative of the notorious Lord Clanricarde and worked for the return of Lord Dunkellin in the Galway Borough constituency in 1857.
Thomas always stood as an independent liberal and seems to have been more interested in horse racing than politics, rarely speaking in the House.
Thomas died in 1875 aged 62.
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