Earl of Clanricarde is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland,first in 1543 and again in 1800. The former creation became extinct in 1916 while the 1800 creation is extant and held by the Marquess of Sligo since 1916.
Burke's Peerage Limited is a British genealogical publisher,considered an authority on the order of precedence of noble families and information on the lesser nobility of the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1826,when the Anglo-Irish genealogist John Burke began releasing books devoted to the ancestry and heraldry of the peerage,baronetage,knightage and landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. His first publication,a Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom,was updated sporadically until 1847,when the company began publishing new editions every year as Burke's Peerage,Baronetage and Knightage.
The House of Burgh or Burke was an ancient Anglo-Norman and later Hiberno-Norman aristocratic dynasty which played a prominent role in the Norman invasion of Ireland,held the earldoms of Kent,Ulster,Clanricarde,and Mayo at various times,and provided queens consort of Scotland and Thomond and Kings of England via a matrilineal line.
Ulick na gCeann Burke,12th Clanricarde or Mac William Uachtar,1st Earl of Clanricarde was an Irish noble and son of Richard Mór Burke,9th Clanricarde by a daughter of Madden of Portumna.
Ulick John de Burgh,1st Marquess of Clanricarde,styled Lord Dunkellin until 1808 and the Earl of Clanricarde from 1808 until 1825,was a British Whig politician who served as British Ambassador to Russia (1838–40),Postmaster General (1846–52) and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (1858).
Ulick MacRichard Burke,1st Marquess of Clanricarde,5th Earl of Clanricarde,2nd Earl of St Albans PC (Ire),styled Lord Dunkellin until 1635,was an Irish nobleman who was involved in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. A Catholic Royalist who had overall command of the Irish forces during the later stages of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland,he was created Marquess of Clanricarde (1646).
Richard Burke,4th Earl of Clanricarde PC (Ire),styled Lord Dunkellin until 1601,was an Irish nobleman and politician.
General John Thomas de Burgh,13th Earl of Clanricarde,PC (Ire),styled The Honourable John Thomas de Burgh until 1797,was a British Army officer and politician who served as the governor of Kingston-upon-Hull from 1801 to 1808.
David Vines White is an officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. Since 2021,he has served as Garter Principal King of Arms.
Burke's Landed Gentry is a reference work listing families in Great Britain and Ireland who have owned rural estates of some size. The work has been in existence from the first half of the 19th century,and was founded by John Burke. He and successors from the Burke family,and others since,have written in it on genealogy and heraldry relating to gentry families.
Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie,6th Baronet was a notable genealogist responsible for one of the major works on Scottish families,The Baronage of Scotland.
John Burke was an Irish genealogist,and the original publisher of Burke's Peerage. He was the father of Sir Bernard Burke,a British officer of arms and genealogist.
Henry de Burgh,1st Marquess of Clanricarde,KP,PC (Ire),styled Lord Dunkellin until 1782 and The Earl of Clanricarde from 1782 until 1789,was an Irish peer and politician who was MP for County Galway (1768) and Governor and Custos Rotulorum of County Galway (1792–97).
Ulick Canning de Burgh,Lord Dunkellin was an Anglo-Irish soldier and politician who served during the Crimean War and was Military Secretary to the Viceroy of India and MP for Galway Borough (1857–65) and County Galway (1865–67).
Ulick Burke,3rd Earl of Clanricarde,styled Lord Dunkellin until 1582,was an Irish peer who was the son of Richard Burke,2nd Earl of Clanricarde and Margaret O'Brien.
Richard Burke,8th Earl of Clanricarde PC (Ire);styled Lord Dunkellin until 1687;was an Irish peer who served as Custos Rotulorum of Galway.
John Burke,9th Earl of Clanricarde was an Irish soldier and peer who was a colonel during the Williamite War in Ireland.
Michael Burke,10th Earl of Clanricarde PC (Ire.),styled Lord Dunkellin until 1722,was an Irish peer who was Governor of Galway (1712–14) and a Privy Counsellor in Ireland (1726).
John Smith de Burgh,11th Earl of Clanricarde,styled Lord Dunkellin until 1726,was an Irish peer.
The following is an armorial of the individuals who have served as governor-general of the Commonwealth of Australia.
