Michael Burke, 10th Earl of Clanricarde

Michael Burke, 10th Earl of Clanricarde PC (Ire.)

(English: /klænˈrɪkɑːrd/ klan-RIK-ard; 1686–28 November 1726), styled Lord Dunkellin (/dʌnˈkɛlɪn/ dun-KEL-in) until 1722, was an Irish peer who was Governor of Galway (1712–14) and a Privy Counsellor in Ireland (1726).

He was appointed Governor of Galway in 1712 and invested as a Privy Counsellor in Ireland on 15 July 1726.

[2] On his death, on 28 November 1726, he was buried in Christchurch, Dublin.

[3] He married, on 19 September 1714, to Anne Smith (d.1743), daughter of the House of Commons Speaker John Smith and the widow of Hugh Parker of Honington, warwickshire, who after her death in 1732 was buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey.