6TH

EARL OF

See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

RICHARD

See also:

• SOUTHWELL
• SOUTHWELL, ROBERT (c. 1561-1595)

SOUTHWELL

See also:

• BOURKE

BOURKE

See also:

• MAYO
• 6TH EARL OF RICHARD SOUTHWELL BOURKE MAYO (1822-1872)

MAYO (1822-1872)  , British statesman, son of Robert Bourke, the 5th earl (1797-1867), was born in Dublin on the 21st of February, 1822, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin . After travelling in Russia he entered parliament, and sat successively for Kildare, Coleraine and Cockermouth . He was chief secretary for Ireland in three administrations, in 1852, 1858 and 1866, and was appointed viceroy of India in January 1869 . He consolidated the frontiers of India and met Shere Ali, amir of Afghanis-tan, in durbar at Umballa in March 1869 . His reorganization of the finances of the country put India on a paying basis; and he did much to promote irrigation, railways, forests and otheruseful public works . Visiting the convict settlement at Port Blair in the Andaman Islands, for the purpose of inspection, the viceroy was assassinated by a convict on the 8th of February 1872 . His successor was his son, Dermot Robert Wyndham Bourke (b . 1851) who became 7th earl of Mayo . See Sir W . W . Hunter, Life of the Earl of Mayo, (1876), and The Earl of Mayo in the Rulers of India Series (1891) .