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