Their only child Walter Longley Bourke (b. 28 November 1859; d. 1939) became the 8th Earl of Mayo); from 1891 to 1903, he was a Trustee of the Bridgewater Estates.
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Rev. George Winfield Bourke (d. 9 October 1903), Honorary Chaplain to the Monarch, and son of Robert Bourke, 5th Earl of Mayo.
Before becoming Viscounts and Earls of Mayo, the senior branch of the family held the Gaelic title Mac William Íochtar and received the White Rod.
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The tenth Earl was involved in British politics and unsuccessfully contested South Dorset in the 1964 general election as a Liberal.
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Known for most of his life under his courtesy title of Lord Naas, he was three times Chief Secretary for Ireland and served as Governor-General of India from 1869 to 1872, when he was assassinated on the Andaman Islands.
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Lord Dunraven, Lord Barrymore, Lord Mayo and Lord Castletown, Sir John Keane of Cappoquin, Villiers Stuart of Dromana, Moreton Frewen, were a few of the more notable adherents who supplied political and financial support.
These were the Earl of Dunraven, the Earl of Mayo, Col. William Hutcheson Poë and Col. Nugent Everard.
John Bourke, 4th Earl of Mayo, GCH, PC (Ire) (18 June 1766 – 23 May 1849) was an Irish peer and courtier, styled Lord Naas from 1792 until 1794.