Maurice Bourke

Captain Maurice Archibald Bourke CMG (22 December 1853 – 16 September 1900) was a Royal Navy officer who became Naval Secretary.

Born the son of Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, Bourke joined the Royal Navy in 1867 and advanced to command HMS Surprise, Prince Alfred's Royal Yacht in the late 1880s.

On 22 June 1893, while manoeuvring under the orders of the commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon, Victoria collided with Camperdown near Tripoli, Lebanon and quickly sank, taking 358 crew with her, including Tryon.

[4] He was appointed Assistant Director of Torpedoes in 1895 and Senior Officer of the Newfoundland Fisheries Division in 1896.

[7] In the late 1880s Bourke was romantically linked with Princess Victoria of Prussia, a grand-daughter of Queen Victoria, and some members of the royal family looked on the match as possible.