Lt Colonel Sir Theobald Hubert Burke, 13th Baronet (25 March 1833 – 4 April 1909) was an

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soldier and baronet who served during the

Crimean war The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. Geopolitical causes of the war included the de ...

and the

Indian Mutiny The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the fo ...

Background

Burke was born in Waterslade House,] at archiver.rootsweb.com

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. He was one of six sons of William Burke of Knocknagur of the ancient Galway family, the Burkes of Glinsk.

Career

He was commissioned into the British Army ( 88th Connaught Rangers) at an early age, and served through the

and the

, and later exchanged into the 18th Royal Irish Regiment in 1866, and attained the rank of

lieutenant colonel Lieutenant colonel ( , ) is a rank of commissioned officers in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel. Several police forces in the United States use the rank of lieutenant colone ...

Family

He inherited the title from

Sir John Lionel Burke, 12th Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...

, in 1884, and when he died in

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aged 76 the

Baronet A baronet ( or ; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the female equivalent, a baronetess (, , or ; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown. The title of baronet is mentioned as early as the 14th ...

cy became extinct. *One brother Thomas Henry Burke was Permanent Under Secretary at the Irish Office. *Another brother

Augustus Nicholas Burke Augustus Joseph Nicholas Burke (28 July 1838 – 1891) was an Irish artist and an Academician of the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA). Early life Burke was born into the Galway Burkes of Glinsk and was the sixth son of William Burke of Kn ...

was an artist.

Arms

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External links

Burke
at www.glinsk.com * 1833 births 1909 deaths 19th-century Irish people People from Tuam Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) officers 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) officers British Army personnel of the Crimean War British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857

Theobald Theobald is a Germanic dithematic name, composed from the elements '' theod-'' "people" and ''bald'' "bold". The name arrived in England with the Normans. The name occurs in many spelling variations, including Theudebald, Diepold, Theobalt, Tybal ...

People from County Galway {{Ireland-baronet-stub