Dermot Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo

The Right Honourable The Earl of Mayo KP PC (Ire)
Senator
In office 11 December 1922 – 31 December 1927
Senate of Southern Ireland
In office May 1921 – 27 May 1922
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Representative Peer of Ireland 14 July 1890 – 31 December 1927
Preceded by	The 6th Earl of Milltown
Succeeded by	None
Personal details
Born	Dermot Robert Wyndham Bourke (1851-07-01)1 July 1851
Died	31 December 1927(1927-12-31) (aged 76) London, England
Nationality	Irish
Spouse	Geraldine Sarah Ponsonby ​ ​ (m. 1885)​
Parent	Richard Bourke (father)
Education	Eton College
Military career
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	British Army
Unit	10th Hussars Grenadier Guards

Dermot Robert Wyndham Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo KP PC (Ire) (English: /bɜːrk/; BURK; 2 July 1851 – 31 December 1927) was an Anglo-Irish peer, styled Lord Naas (/neɪs/; NAYSS) from 1867 to 1872, who served as an Irish representative peer in the British House of Lords (1890–1921) and member of the Senate of Southern Ireland (1921–1922) and Seanad Éireann (1922–1927).

He succeeded as Earl of Mayo on the death of his father Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo in 1872. He was educated at Eton, and was an officer in the 10th Hussars and the Grenadier Guards.^[1] In 1890 he was elected as an Irish representative peer and took his seat in the House of Lords.^[2] He was appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 3 February 1905.

He was one of the four landlord representatives during the 1902 Land Conference. Between 1921 and 1922 he served in the Senate of Southern Ireland. He was nominated by W. T. Cosgrave to the Seanad of the Irish Free State on its formation in 1922. He was nominated for 12 years and served until his death in 1927.^[3]

He owned 7,800 acres mostly in Kildare and Meath.^[4]

In 1885, he married Geraldine Sarah Ponsonby (b. 1863; d. 29 November 1944), who was the granddaughter of John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough, and the great-granddaughter of George Coventry, 8th Earl of Coventry.^[5]

• Bourke, Dermot (1876). Sport in Abyssinia: Or The Mareb And Tackazzee. London: John Murray.

Country	Date	Appointment	Ribbon	Post-nominals
United Kingdom	1905–1922	Privy Council of Ireland		PC (Ire)
United Kingdom	1905–1922	Knight of the Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick[6]		KP

Coat of arms of Dermot Bourke, 7th 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.[7][8] Motto A CRUCE SALUS (Salvation from the Cross) Orders Order of St Patrick

• House of Burgh, an Anglo-Norman and Hiberno-Norman dynasty founded in 1193

• Bateman, John (1883). The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland; a list of all owners of three thousand acres and upwards ... also, one thousand three hundred owners of two thousand acres and upwards in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, their acreage and income from land culled from The modern Domesday book . Robarts - University of Toronto. London: Harrison.
• 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.
• Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
• Cokayne, G. E. (1893). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant (1st ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

• "Mayo, Earl of" . Thom's Irish Who's Who . Dublin: Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. pp. 162-163  – via Wikisource.