Men-at-the-Bar/Bourke, Rt. Hon. Robert

by Joseph Foster

Bourke, Rt. Hon. Robert, P.C. 1880, M.P. King's Lynn since 1868, under-secretary of state for Foreign Office 1874-80, J.P., D.L. East Lothian, author of Parliamentary Precedents, educated at Trin. Coll., Dublin, a student of the Inner Temple 27 April, 1849 (then aged 21), called to the bar 17 Nov., 1852 (3rd son of Robert, Earl of Mayo); born 11 June, 1827; married 21 Nov., 1S63, Lady Susan Georgiana Broun-Ramsay (c.i.), eldest dau. and co-heir of James Andrew, Marquis of Dalhousie, K.T. (extinct) (see Foster's Peerage).

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