Ulick Burke, 1st Viscount Galway

Ulick was born about 1670[1] as the first son of William Burke by his second wife, Helen MacCarty. His father was the 7th Earl of Clanricarde. He already had sons from his first marriage. Ulick's mother was a daughter of Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty[2] and therefore belonged to the MacCarthy of Muskerry dynasty, a Gaelic Irish family that descended from the kings of Desmond.[3]

His father was succeeded by his half-brothers Richard and John as the 8th and the 9th Earl.

Ulick was the brother-in-law of Jacobite leader Patrick Sarsfield, who married Ulick's sister, Honora Burke.[12]

He was created by letters patent dated 2 June 1687 Baron of Tyaquin and Viscount Galway.[13]

The story of his marriage varies according to the sources. All agree that he married a daughter of George Lane, 1st Viscount Lanesborough by his second wife Frances, daughter of Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset and that Ulick's wife remarried to Henry Fox after his death and died in 1713. His wife's name is given either as Elizabeth[14] or as Frances.[15][16]

Ulick and Elizabeth had a daughter who some sources say died in infancy.[15] Others reference her as Elizabeth Burke, referred to by Turtle Bunbury as a "celebrated poetess",[17] who later married Sir Thomas Blake, 7th Baronet of Menlo, son of Sir Walter Blake, 6th Baronet of Menlo and Anne Kirwan. They had at least a daughter, Anne, and a son, Sir Ulick Blake, 8th Baronet of Menlo.[18]

Following the outbreak of Protestant resistance to the Catholic James II, Galway raised a regiment of foot in Connaught to serve in the Irish Army. He served actively during the war, and was killed along with many senior Jacobite officers at the 1691 Battle of Aughrim.[19]

The Galway title was subsequently made into an earldom and awarded to Henri de Massue, a French Huguenot commander in the Williamite forces.[20]

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• Wauchope, Piers (2004). "Sarsfield, Patrick, Jacobite first earl of Lucan (d. 1693)". In Matthew, Colin; Harrison, Brian (eds.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 48. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 993–996. ISBN 0-19-861398-9.

• Wauchope, Piers. Patrick Sarsfield and the Williamite War. Irish Academic Press, 1992.