{{Short description|British Conservative statesman and 4th Viceroy of India (1822–1872)}} {{Use British English|date=May 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = His Excellency The Right Honourable | name = The Lord Mayo | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KP|GCSI|PC}} PC (Ire) | image = Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo.jpg | caption = Photograph by William Walker, {{circa|1867}} | order1 = 4th Viceroy and Governor-General of India | term_start1 = {{start date|df=y|1869|1|12}} | term_end1 = {{end date|df=y|1872|2|8}} | monarch1 = Victoria | predecessor1 = Sir John Lawrence, Bt | successor1 = Sir John Strachey (acting) | order2 = Chief Secretary for Ireland | monarch2 = Victoria | term_start2 = {{start date|df=y|1866|7|10}} | term_end2 = {{end date|df=y|1868|9|29}} | prime_minister2 = {{Ubl| The Earl of Derby | Benjamin Disraeli }} | predecessor2 = Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue | successor2 = John Wilson-Patten | term_start3 = {{start date|df=y|1858|3|4}} | term_end3 = {{end date|df=y|1859|6|11}} | prime_minister3 = The Earl of Derby | predecessor3 = Henry Arthur Herbert | successor3 = Edward Cardwell | term_start4 = {{start date|df=y|1852|3|1}} | term_end4 = {{end date|df=y|1852|12|17}} | prime_minister4 = The Earl of Derby | predecessor4 = Sir William Somerville, Bt | successor4 = Sir John Young, Bt {{collapsed infobox section begin |Parliamentary offices |titlestyle=border:1px dashed lightgrey;}}{{Infobox officeholder |embed=yes | office1 = Member of Parliament for Cockermouth | term_start1 = 1857 | term_end1 = 1868 | alongside1 = {{hlist| John Steel | Andrew Green Thompson }} | predecessor1 = {{ubl| Henry Wyndham | John Steel }} | successor1 = Isaac Fletcher | office2 = Member of Parliament for Coleraine | term_start2 = 1852 | term_end2 = 1857 | predecessor2 = John Boyd | successor2 = John Boyd | office3 = Member of Parliament for Kildare | term_start3 = 1847 | term_end3 = 1852 | alongside3 = Marquess of Kildare | predecessor3 = {{ubl| Richard More O'Ferrall | Robert Archbold }} | successor3 = {{ubl| Willian Cogan | Marquess of Kildare }} {{Collapsed infobox section end}}}} | birth_name = Richard Southwell Bourke | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1822|2|21}} | birth_place = Dublin, Ireland | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1872|2|8|1822|2|21}} | death_place = Port Blair, Andaman Islands, India | party = Conservative | alma_mater = Trinity College, Dublin<br />(B.A., 1844; M.A., 1851; LLD., 1852) | parents = {{ubl| Robert Bourke, 5th Earl of Mayo | Anne Charlotte Jocelyn }} | spouse = {{marriage|Hon. Blanche Wyndham|1848}} | children = Dermot Robert Wyndham Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo | relatives = Robert Bourke, 1st Baron Connemara (brother) | death_cause = Assassination }} '''Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo''', ({{IPAc-en|lang|b|ɜːr|k}}; {{respell|BURK}}; 21 February 1822 – 8 February 1872) styled '''Lord Naas''' ({{IPAc-en|n|eɪ|s}}; {{respell|NAYSS}}) from 1842 to 1867, was a prominent British statesman, colonial administrator, and diplomat. He was a Member of Parliament from the British Conservative Party from 1847 to 1868, and served as the Chief Secretary for Ireland for three terms (1852, 1858–9, 1866–8). In 1869, he was appointed as the 4th Viceroy of India with the political title '''Lord Mayo'''. During an official visit to Port Blair in 1872, he was assassinated and was the only Viceroy of India to be killed while in office.<ref name="Hunter2006">{{cite book |last=Hunter |first=W. W. |author-link=W. W. Hunter |title=The Life of the Earl of Mayo – Fourth Viceroy of India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k0fpM7nccoEC |year=1876 |access-date=1 February 2006 |publisher=Read Books |location= |isbn=978-1-84664-774-1}}</ref>
==Background and education== Mayo was born in Dublin, Ireland, the eldest son of Robert Bourke, 5th Earl of Mayo (the son of Hon. Richard Burke, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore), and his wife, Anne Charlotte, daughter of the Hon. John Jocelyn.<ref name="n754">{{cite book | last=Wills | first=James | title=The Irish Nation: Its History and Its Biography | publisher=A. Fullarton | date=1876 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YvBMAAAAMAAJ&dq=Richard+Bourke,+6th+Earl+of+Mayo+St.+Petersburg+and+Moscow+(1846),&pg=PA64 | access-date=2025-12-24 | page=64}}</ref> His younger brother the Hon. Robert Bourke was also a successful politician.
Mayo was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (attaining BA in 1844, MA in 1851, and LLD in 1852).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burtchaell |first1=George Dames |author-link1=George Dames Burtchaell |title=Alumni Dublinenses: A Register of the Students, Graduates, Professors and Provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860) |last2=Sadleir |first2=Thomas Ulick |author-link2=Thomas Ulick Sadleir |publisher=Alex Thom and Co. |year=1935 |location=Dublin |page=84 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="completepeerage01cokagoog">{{cite book |last=Cokayne |first=G. E. |author-link=George Edward Cokayne |title=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant |title-link=The Complete Peerage |publisher=George Bell & Sons |year=1893 |edition=1st |volume=5 |location=London |pages=[https://archive.org/details/completepeerage01cokagoog/mode/2up?view=theater 281] |language=en}}</ref> He and his brothers were accomplished horsemen and enjoyed fox hunting.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Whyte-Melville |first1=G. J. (George John) |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35521 |title=Riding Recollections, 5th ed. |last2=Giberne |first2=Edgar |date=2011-03-08 |language=English}}</ref> From 1844 to 1846, he also served as Gentleman of the Bedchamber to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury.<ref name="n754"/>
==Political career== [[File:The Derby Cabinet of 1867.jpg|thumb|left|260px|The Cabinet of the Earl of Derby in 1867]] From June to August 1845, Mayo travelled to Russia visiting the court of Nicholas I of Russia.<ref name="o674">{{cite book | last=Cross | first=Anthony | title=In the Land of the Romanovs: An Annotated Bibliography of First-hand English-language Accounts of the Russian Empire (1613-1917) | publisher=Open Book Publishers | date=2014-04-27 | isbn=978-1-78374-057-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KYBxAwAAQBAJ&dq=Richard+Bourke,+6th+Earl+of+Mayo+St.+Petersburg+and+Moscow+(1846),&pg=PA174 | access-date=2025-12-24 | pages=174–175}}</ref> He detailed his travels in a written account, published as ''St. Petersburg and Moscow'' (1846).<ref name="o674"/> He also visited Revel and Finland before returning home.<ref name="o674"/>
Mayo was elected a MP for three different constituencies over his lifetime.<ref name="n754"/> He served as MP for Kildare (1847–52), Coleraine (1852–7) and Cockermouth (1857–68).<ref name="n754"/>
He was thrice appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland – in 1852, 1858 and 1866. While Chief Secretary in Ireland, he led government efforts to stop clandestine activity and the operation of secret nationalist societies, including the Phoenix National and Literary Society and others.<ref name="n184">{{cite book | last1=history) | first1=Kyle Hughes (Lecturer in British | last2=MacRaild | first2=Donald M. | title=Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-century Ireland and Its Diaspora: The Persistence of Tradition | publisher=Oxford University Press | date=2018 | isbn=978-1-78694-135-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RzhxDwAAQBAJ&dq=Richard+Bourke,+6th+Earl+of+Mayo&pg=PA210 | access-date=2025-12-24 | page=210}}</ref>
In 1867, he succeeded his father as Earl of Mayo (but as an Irish peer was able to retain his seat in the commons) until he gave up his seat in 1868 on appointment as Viceroy of India.<ref name="n754"/>
===Viceroy of India=== On 12 January 1869 he arrived in Calcutta and became the fourth Viceroy of India replacing John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence.<ref name="n754"/> He consolidated the frontiers of India and reorganised the country's finances; he also did much to promote irrigation, railways, forests and other useful public works. To solve local problems he established local boards. During his tenure the first census took place in 1872. He founded Mayo College at Ajmer for the education of young Indian chiefs, with £70,000 being subscribed by the chiefs themselves.<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Bourke, Richard Southwell|volume=6}}</ref>
==Assassination== {{Main|Assassination of Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo}} While visiting the convict settlement at Port Blair in the Andaman Islands on 8 February 1872 for the purpose of inspection, he was assassinated by Sher Ali Afridi, a former Afghan soldier who had been convicted for murdering a relative. He vowed to kill two British officials to avenge the suffering he had to undergo. Mayo's body was brought home to Ireland and buried at the medieval ruined church in Johnstown, County Kildare, near his home at Palmerstown House. Afridi was hanged on March 11, 1872.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Executed Today: 1872: Sher Ali Afridi, Assassin of the Viceroy |url=https://www.executedtoday.com/2013/03/11/1872-sher-ali-afridi-assassin-of-the-viceroy/ |access-date=1 May 2024 |website=executedtoday.com|date=11 March 2013 }}</ref> On his death, John Stracey served as acting Viceroy of India.<ref name="j972">{{cite book | author=England (pseud.) | title=What are our legions? Or, The truth about the Indian armies | date=1878 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=beAWWirxVH8C&pg=PA45 | access-date=2025-12-24 | page=45}}</ref>
==Memorials== === Lord Mayo March === The traditional Irish march "Lord Mayo" (''Tiagharna Mhaighe-eo'') was named after him; according to tradition, it was composed by his harper David Murphy to appease Mayo after Murphy angered him.<ref>{{cite book |author=Fitzgerald |first=Shafto Justin Adair |title=Stories of Famous Songs |publisher=John C. Nimmo |year=1898 |location=London |page=380 |language=en}}</ref>
=== ''Papilio mayo'' Butterfly === In 1873, the newly discovered swallowtail butterfly ''Papilio mayo'' from the Andaman Islands was named in his honour.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Atkinson |first=W. S. |year=1873 |title=Descriptions of two new species of butterflies from the Andaman Islands |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28505035 |journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London |volume=1873 |page=736}}</ref>
===St Paul's Cathedral=== A Memorial to Lord Mayo is in the third recess of the South Wall at St Paul's Cathedral, London.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sinclair |first=W. |title=Memorials of St Paul's Cathedral |publisher=Chapman & Hall, Ltd |location=London |publication-date=1909 |pages=462 |language=en}}</ref>
===Statue in Cockermouth, Cumbria=== [[File:DSC 6068-lord-naas-earl-mayo.JPG|left|thumb|Statue of Lord Mayo in the town of Cockermouth]]
On 19 August 1875, a statue of Lord Mayo was unveiled in the centre of the main street in the town of Cockermouth. The 800-guinea cost of the statue (made by Messrs. Willis of London) had been raised by public subscription. The unveiling was attended by Mayo's son, the 7th Earl; Lord Napier and Ettrick; Harvey Goodwin, Bishop of Carlisle; and the Earl of Lonsdale. The statue, carved in Sicilian marble, depicts Lord Mayo in his viceregal garb, and still stands today.
===Mayo Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan=== Mayo Hospital is one of the oldest and biggest hospitals in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. The hospital is named after then Viceroy of British India, "Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo" also locally known as Lord Mayo.
=== Statue at Albert Hall Museum, Jaipur, India === A statue of Lord Mayo had been installed in the premises of Mayo Hospital (currently known as the Mahilya Chikatsalya, Jaipur). The {{convert|9|ft|m|adj=mid|-tall}} cast-iron statue, weighing around 3 tons, was ordered sculpted by the Maharaja Ram Singh ji of Jaipur, as a tribute to Lord Mayo after his assassination. The sculptors were J. Forsyth and R. Monti. The company's name as inscribed on the statue was R. Masefield & Co., London.
This statue of Lord Mayo had been buried in the premises of the Albert Hall Museum of Jaipur at the time of the independence of India in 1947 to prevent vandalism. After six decades, this statue was unearthed by the Jaipur Mayo Alumni Chapter on 29 May 2007. It was later removed from the Albert Hall Museum in Jaipur and sent to Mayo College, in Ajmer, India, where it is now installed.<ref name="Annual Register 1875 p74-75">{{cite book |title=Annual Register: A Review of Public Events at Home and Abroad for the Year 1875 |location=London |publisher=Rivingtons |year=1875 |pages=74–75 |language=en}}</ref>
=== Mayo College, Ajmer, India === Mayo College, Ajmer, India, was founded after the death of Lord Mayo in 1875. The College, named in honour of Lord Mayo, already had a full life-size statue of him sculpted in white marble installed in front of its famous main building since inception and a marble sculpted bust of him in its school museum.<ref name="Annual Register 1875 p74-75"/> The College accepted the statue of Lord Mayo which was unearthed at Mayo Hospital, Jaipur in 2007.
=== Mayo Hall, Bengaluru, India === Mayo Hall is a building located in the center of Bengaluru. It was built in 1883 to honor the memory of Richard Bourke.
==Marriage and children== Mayo married Hon Blanche Julia Wyndham (1826–1918), daughter of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, in 1848. Lady Mayo served as Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria from 1872, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE).<ref name="completepeerage01cokagoog"/>
Lord and Lady Mayo had seven children:<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lodge |first1=Edmund |title=The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing |date=1882 |publisher=Hurst and Blackett |page=404 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rDU-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA404 |access-date=27 January 2025 |language=en}}</ref><ref>Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'', 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003</ref>
* Hon. Norah Mary (14 March 1850 – 23 May 1851), died in infancy * Lady Eva Constance Aline Bourke (16 August 1858 – 19 January 1940), married Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl * Dermot Robert Wyndham Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo (2 July 1851 – 31 December 1927) * Captain Hon. Sir Maurice Archibald Bourke (22 December 1853 – 16 September 1900) * Hon. Algernon Henry Bourke (31 December 1854 – 7 April 1922) * Lady Florence Blanche Madeline Bourke (16 August 1861 – 18 June 1953) * Hon. Terence Theobald Bourke, OBE (2 April 1865 – 13 May 1923)
Following his assassination in 1872, Lord Mayo was succeeded in the Earldom and other titles by his eldest son, Dermot.
==Honours and Arms== ===Honours=== {| class="wikitable" ! style="width:15%;" |Country ! style="width:10%;" |Date ! style="width:65%;" |Appointment ! style="width:5%;" |Ribbon ! style="width:5%;" |Post-nominals |- || {{Flagu|United Kingdom}} || 1852–1872 || Privy Council<ref name="completepeerage01cokagoog"/> || <!--None--> || PC |- || {{Flagu|United Kingdom}} || 1852–1872 || Privy Council of Ireland<ref name="completepeerage01cokagoog"/> || <!--None--> || PC (Ire) |- || {{Flagu|United Kingdom}} || 1868–1872 || Knight of the Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick<ref name="completepeerage01cokagoog"/> || | 85px || KP |- || {{Flagu|United Kingdom}} || 1869–1872 || Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India<ref name="completepeerage01cokagoog"/> || | 85px || GCSI |}
===Arms=== {{Infobox COA wide |title = |image = File:Arms of Bourke, Earl of Mayo.svg |notes = |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 |motto = '''A CRUCE SALUS''' ''(Salvation from the Cross)'' |supporters = On either side a Chevalier in complete Armour, holding in the exterior hand a Pole-Axe, all proper.<ref>{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link= Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |pages=2653–2655 |ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Burke |first=Bernard |author-link=Bernard Burke |url=http://archive.org/details/generalarmoryofe00burk |title=The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time |date=1884 |publisher=Harrison & Sons |location=London |others=University of California Libraries |language=en }}</ref> |bannerimage = <!--None--> |banner = <!--None--> |symbolism = <!--None--> |orders = Order of St Patrick<br>Order of the Star of India }}
==Ancestry== {{ahnentafel | collapsed=yes |align=center | boxstyle_1=background-color: #fcc; | boxstyle_2=background-color: #fb9; | boxstyle_3=background-color: #ffc; | boxstyle_4=background-color: #bfc; | 1= 1. '''Robert Bourke, 1st Baron Connemara''' | 2= 2. Robert Bourke, 5th Earl of Mayo | 3= 3. Anne Charlotte Jocelyn | 4= 4. Hon. Richard Bourke | 5= 5. Frances Fowler | 6= 6. Hon. John Jocelyn | 7= 7. Margaret FitzGerald | 8= 8. Joseph Bourke, 3rd Earl of Mayo | 9= 9. Elizabeth Meade | 12= 12. Robert Jocelyn, 1st Earl of Roden | 13= 13. Lady Anne Hamilton | 14= 14. Richard FitzGerald }}
==See also== * House of Burgh, an Anglo-Norman and Hiberno-Norman dynasty founded in 1193 * Mayo College, Ajmer, India * Mayo Hall, Allahabad, India * Mayo Hall, Bangalore, India * Mayo School of Arts, Lahore, British India * Viceroy of India * Mayo Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan
==References== ===Citations=== {{Reflist|2}}
===Bibliography=== * {{cite book |title=Annual Register: A Review of Public Events at Home and Abroad for the Year 1875 |location=London |publisher=Rivingtons |year=1875 |language=en}} * {{cite journal |last=Atkinson |first=W. S. |year=1873 |title=Descriptions of two new species of butterflies from the Andaman Islands |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28505035 |journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London |volume=1873 |page=736}} * {{Cite ODNB|id=2998|title=Bourke, Richard Southwell}} * {{Cite book |last=Burke |first=Bernard |author-link=Bernard Burke |url=http://archive.org/details/generalarmoryofe00burk |title=The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time |date=1884 |publisher=Harrison & Sons |location=London |others=University of California Libraries |language=en}} * {{cite book |last=Cokayne |first=G. E. |author-link=George Edward Cokayne |title=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant |title-link=The Complete Peerage |publisher=George Bell & Sons |year=1893 |edition=1st |location=London |language=en}} * {{cite book |author=Fitzgerald |first=Shafto Justin Adair |title=Stories of Famous Songs |publisher=John C. Nimmo |year=1898 |location=London |page=380}} * {{cite book |last=Hunter |first=W. W. |author-link=W. W. Hunter |title=The Life of the Earl of Mayo – Fourth Viceroy of India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k0fpM7nccoEC |year=1876 |access-date=1 February 2006 |publisher=Read Books |location= |isbn=978-1-84664-774-1}} * {{Cite journal |last=James |first=Helen |title=The Assassination of Lord Mayo: The 'first' jihad? |journal=International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies |volume=5 |issue=2 |year=2009 |pages=1–19 |url=http://web.usm.my/ijaps/articles/1_Helen_(1-19)4.pdf |language=en}} * {{Cite book |editor-last1=Kidd |editor-first=Charles |editor-last2=Williamson |editor-first2= David |title=Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage |edition=1990 |publisher=St Martin's Press |location=New York |year=1990}} * {{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood |publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link= Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}} * {{Cite book |last=Pottinger |first=George |title=Mayo: Disraeli's Viceroy |publisher=Michael Russell Publishing |location=Wilby |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-85955-164-9 |language=en}} * {{Cite book |last=Sinclair |first=W. |title=Memorials of St Paul's Cathedral |publisher=Chapman & Hall, Ltd |location=London |publication-date=1909 |language=en}} * {{Cite book |last1=Whyte-Melville |first1=G. J. (George John) |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35521 |title=Riding Recollections, 5th ed. |last2=Giberne |first2=Edgar |date=2011-03-08 |language=English}} * [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9051609/Richard-Southwell-Bourke-6th-earl-of-Mayo Encyclopædia Britannica Article on Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th earl of Mayo]
==External links== * {{Commons category-inline|Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo}} {{EB1911 poster|Mayo, Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of|Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo}} * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-richard-bourke | the Earl of Mayo }} * [http://mayocollege.com/AboutFounder.asp Obituary & Photo at the Mayo College, Ajmer, India website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420164509/http://www.mayocollege.com/AboutFounder.asp |date=20 April 2008 }}
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