Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

BOURKE, OLIVER PAGET. _b._ 1817; Ensign 17 Foot 11 Dec. 1835, lieut. col. 7 Sep. 1855 to 10 Nov. 1856, when placed on h.p.; Exon of yeomen of the guard 17 July 1862 to Nov. 1873; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 3 Breffin terrace, Kingstown near Dublin 28 April 1880. BOURKE, SIR RICHARD (_only son of John Bourke of Dromsally, Ireland_). _b._ Dublin 4 May 1777; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; ensign 1 Foot 22 Nov. 1798; captain 1 Garrison battalion 5 Dec. 1805; quartermaster general South America 1806; served in the Peninsula 1809–14; governor of eastern district of Cape of Good Hope 1825, conducted the government of the colony to Nov. 1829; governor of New South Wales 3 Dec. 1831 to 5 Dec. 1837; colonel 64 Foot 29 Nov. 1837 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 26 Jany. 1835; sheriff of Limerick 1839; edited with Earl Fitzwilliam _The correspondence of Edmund Burke_ 1829. _d._ Thornfield, Castle Connell, co. Limerick 12 Aug. 1855. _R. Therry’s Reminiscences_, _2 ed._ (1863) 129–89. NOTE.—The people of New South Wales erected a magnificent bronze statue by Westmacott to his memory in the Domain Sydney, which was unveiled 11 April 1842, this was the first statue in New South Wales. BOURKE, WALTER (_eld. son of Joseph Bourke of Carrowkeel, co. Mayo who d. 1820_). _b._ 1808; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824; called to Irish bar 1827; Q.C. 7 Feb. 1849. _d._ Carrowkeel 26 Dec. 1870. BOURKE, WALTER MCWILLIAM (_2 son of Isidore Bourke of Curraghleagh Claremorris, co. Mayo, a crown solicitor for Ireland who d. 1866_). _b._ 1838; ed. at Stonyhurst and Clongowes Wood colleges and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1859, M.A. 1863; called to Irish bar 1858, practised in Dublin and then in high court at Calcutta; purchased Rahassane park, co. Galway 1880; contributed to Dublin literary magazines; published a volume of Indian law reports; assassinated at Castle Taylor near Ardrahan, co. Galway 8 June