Friday, 15 February 2013
55 Ulick de Burgh ( Lord Dunkellin )
Constituency : Galway Borough 1857-65 , County Galway 1865-7
Ulick was the son and heir of Lord Clanricarde who, despite his Liberal colours , was the most notorious absentee landlord in Ireland. He was educated at Eton.
Ulick was a professional soldier, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Coldstream Guards. He fought in the Crimean War and was briefly taken prisoner during the Siege of Sevastopol. In 1856 he went to India as Military Secretary to his uncle Lord Canning the Viceroy. From there he fought in the Persian Expedition of 1856-7. He was still in Calcutta for the 1857 election where Thomas Burke, MP for the Galway county seat and another relative, did the spadework for him.
Ulick followed his father into the Adullamite camp and spoke in favour of Grosvenor's wrecking amendment in 1866.
He died suddenly at the age of 40 in 1867 and so never inherited the title.
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