Joseph Bourke, 3rd Earl of Mayo

Joseph Deane Bourke, 3rd Earl of Mayo (English: /bɜːrk/; BURK; 1736 – 20 August 1794) was an Irish peer and cleric who held several high offices in the Church of Ireland including Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin (1772–82) and Archbishop of Tuam (1782–94).

The Earl of Mayo
Archbishop of Tuam
In office
1782–1794
Preceded byJemmett Browne
Succeeded byWilliam Beresford
Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin
In office
1772–1782
Preceded byEdward Young
Succeeded byWalter Cope
Dean of Dromore
In office
1772–1772
Preceded byWalter Cope
Succeeded byRaphael Walsh
Dean of Killaloe
In office
1768–1772
Preceded byWilliam Henry
Succeeded byWilliam Pery
Parliamentary Offices
Member of the Irish House of Lords
Hereditary Peerage
20 April 1792 – 20 August 1794
Preceded byJohn Bourke
Succeeded byJohn Bourke
Personal details
Born
Joseph Deane Bourke

1736 (1736)
Died20 August 1794(1794-08-20) (aged 57–58)
Kilbeggan, County Westmeath, Ireland
NationalityIrish
Spouse
Elizabeth Meade
(m. 1760⁠–⁠1794)
Children
Parents

Family

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Bourke was the second son of John Bourke, 1st Earl of Mayo and Mary Deane. In 1760, he married Elizabeth Meade (d.1807), the daughter of Richard Meade, 3rd Baronet and Catherine Prittie. They had four sons: John Bourke, 4th Earl of Mayo, Richard, Joseph, and George, and six daughters: Catherine, Mary-Elizabeth, Mary-Anne, Charlotte, Louisa, and Theodosia-Eleanor.[1] Theodosia's son, Matthew Hale, was the first Bishop of Perth and then the Bishop of Brisbane.

Ecclesiastical career

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Cathedral Church of St Mary, Tuam.

Prior to his elevation to the episcopate, Bourke's earlier ecclesiastical appointments were Prebendary of Armagh (1760–1768);[2] Dean of Killaloe (1768–1772), Rector of Kilskyre, near Kells, County Meath (1769–1772);[3] and Dean of Dromore (1772).[4]

He was nominated as the Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin on 7 September 1772 and appointed by letters patent on 19 September 1772.[5][6] He was consecrated at St. Thomas's Church, Dublin on 11 October 1772; the principal consecrator was John Cradock, Archbishop of Dublin, and the principal co-consecrators were Charles Jackson, Bishop of Kildare and William Newcome, Bishop of Dromore.[5][6]

Ten years later, he was translated to the Archbishopric of Tuam by letters patent on 8 August 1782 and made a member of the Privy Council of Ireland.[7][8] On the death in 1792 of his brother, John Bourke, 2nd Earl of Mayo, he succeeded as the 3rd Earl of Mayo.[1]

He died at Kilbeggan in County Westmeath on 20 August 1794, and was interred in the burying ground of his family near Naas, County Kildare.[7][9]

Arms

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Coat of arms of Joseph Bourke, 3rd Earl of Mayo
 
Crest
A Cat-a-Mountain sejant guardant proper, collared and chained Or.
Escutcheon
Party per fess Or and Ermine, a cross gules the first quarter charged with a lion rampant sable and the second with a dexter hand couped at the wrist and erect gules
Supporters
On either side a Chevalier in complete Armour, holding in the exterior hand a Pole-Axe, all proper.[10][11]
Motto
A CRUCE SALUS (Salvation from the Cross)

Ancestry

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See also

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References

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Citations

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  1. ^ a b Burke 1882, A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, vol. 2, pp. 156–157.
  2. ^ Cotton 1849, The Province of Ulster, p. 53.
  3. ^ Cotton 1851, The Province of Munster, p. 479.
  4. ^ Cotton 1849, The Province of Ulster, p. 294.
  5. ^ a b Cotton 1850, The Province of Connaught, p. 342.
  6. ^ a b Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 394.
  7. ^ a b Cotton 1850, The Province of Connaught, p. 18.
  8. ^ Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 406.
  9. ^ Cokayne, G. E. (1893). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. Vol. 5 (1st ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. pp. 281.
  10. ^ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. pp. 2653–2655. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  11. ^ Burke, Bernard (1884). The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time. University of California Libraries. London: Harrison & Sons.

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Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by Dean of Killaloe
1768–1772
Succeeded by
Preceded by Dean of Dromore
1772
Succeeded by
Preceded by Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin
1772–1782
Succeeded by
Preceded by Archbishop of Tuam
1782–1794
Succeeded by
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Earl of Mayo
1792–1794
Succeeded by