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 258 CLANRICARDE. the Queen, and sat, as an Earl, in her 1st Part He m. 24 Nov. 1853, Margaret,(») do, of Morrough (O'Brikx), 1st Eaui, ok Tho.mond [I.], by Eleanor, da. of Thomas Fit/Gerald, Knight of the Valley. He d. 24 July 1082. His widow who was 6. 1535, was living 1015, aged SO. III. 1582. 3. Ulick (de Burgh), Earl of Clanrigardb, ovrc. [I.], sat in the Pari. [I.] of 10S5, and had grant of divers lands iti Connaught and in England. He ?».( b ) Honora, da. of John Burke of Cloghoroku. He d. 20 May, 1601. HLs widow was living in 1601, and then aged 52. IV. 1G01. 4. Riciiard (Bourke, or de Buugu), Earl of Clan- ricakbe, &c. [L] 2d but 1st surv. s. and h. He matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 18 Dec., 15S4, being then aged 12. He greatly distinguished himself against the rebel O'Neill, particularly at the battle of Kingsale, where he was Knighted in the battlefield, 21 Dec, 1601, whence he was Burnamed of Kinystde ; was Col. of a Reg. of Foot [I.]; was Gov. of Connaught; Constable of Athlone Castle, and Keener uf the King's House, 10U3 ; Lord President of Connaught, 1604-16 ; Gov. of (ialwav, Hil6. On 3 April, 1624, he was cr. BARON OF SOMERHILL and VISCOUNT TUNBRIDGE. co. Kent. P.C., 1625. On 23 Aug., 162S, he was cr. KARL OF ST. ALBANS, co. Hertford (with the usual rem.) and, in the same patent, BARON OF 1MANNEY AND VISCOUNT GALWAY in the province of Connaught [I.], the limitation of these last two dignities [I.] being, failing heirs male of his owu body, to those of his Father, Earl Ulick. He m. before 8 April, 1603, Frances, Dow. Countess ov Esses, formerly wife of the noted Sir Philip Sydney, da. and h. of Sir Francis Walsingham (the well-known Secretary of State to Queen Eliz.) by his 2nd wife Ursula, widow of Richard Worsley, da. of John St. Baiibk, of co. Somerset. He d. 12 Nov., 1635( c ), and was lur. at Tunbridge. Will, in which he makes no mention of liis wife, signed " St. Albans and Clan Rickard," dat. 5 Nov., 1635; pr. 15 Dee., 1630, by his son " Ulick Bourke, Viscount Tunbridge and Dunkelling."( d ) V. 1635. 5. and 1. Ulick (Bourke, or de Bdrgh), Earl of St. Albans [1628], Viscount Tunbridoe and Baron Somerhill [1624] Marquessate[I.]also Earl op Clanricaiide, Viscount Galwat, &c., [I.], only s. and h., 6. in London Dec. 1604. He (or, possibly, his successor) I. 1G4G appears to have sue. his cousin (as h. male of the grantee) as VIS- to COUNT BOURKE OF CLANMORIES [I.]. (See under that 1G58 dignity, e ' - ' with a spec, rem., 20 April 1629.) Lieut.-Gen. of his Father's Reg. He was by writs 7 March, 1627/8, and 20 Jan., 1628/9, directed " Ulick Burch [i.e. Burgh], Ch'lr, primogenito, Ricardi, Comitis S. Albani( e )," sum. v.p. to the house of Lords in, presumably, his Father's Barony of Somerhill, tho', according to the writ, as LORD BURGH ; Gov. of Galway, 1636 ; was Knighted by the King at Windsor (together with the Prince ( :l ) According to Burke's " Peerage " (1887), she was his first wife and was followed by another Maryaret O'Brien, da. of another Earl of Thomond (viz. Donough, the 2d Earl,) who was the lady living in 1615, aged 80. This latter Margaret, however, seems to have m. Baron Iuchiquin [I.], while the former Margaret is stated to havo been b. in 1535, exactly the date to correspond with her age of 80 in 1615. In "Lodge" I, 130, the wives of the 2d. Earl are given as (1) Margaret O'Brien, (2) Catherine O'Brien, to which is added yet another, viz., (3) Honora, da. of O'Brien of Duharrass. ( b ) He is said in " Lodge " I. 130 to have m. "25 Nov. 1564 [his parents having been stated to have m. 24 Nov., 1553] Margaret, da. of Richard Fitz Allan, Earl of Arundel.." No Earl of Arundel, named Richard, existed since 1397, and no such match is recorded in any of the pedigrees of Fitz Alan. ( c ) In Manningham's " Diary " he is called " a goodly personable Gentleman, some- thing resembling the late Earl of Essex." ( d ) Sic., perhaps, because (before he inherited the Earldoms). he was so styled in the will. ( e ) Dugdale's " Summons," pp. 556 and 558.