Ulick de Burgh, Lord Dunkellin

Dunkellin was the eldest son of Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde, and the Hon. Harriet, daughter of George Canning. He was educated at Eton. ==Military career==

Dunkellin entered the army in 1846 and was in the Coldstream Guards. He served as Aide-de-Camp to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (Lord Bessborough between 1847 and 1848 and then Lord Clarendon between 1848 and 1852) and then as State Steward to the Lord Lieutenant (Lord St Germans between 1852 and 1854). Subsequently, he served in the Crimean War and was taken prisoner during the Siege of Sevastopol in October 1854. He was appointed a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1854, and was awarded the Order of the Medjidie by Abdulmejid I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. In 1856, Dunkellin was Military Secretary to the Viceroy of India, his uncle Lord Canning, and also served as a volunteer on the staff during the Anglo-Persian War (1856–57). He retired from the Coldstream Guards in 1860. ==Political career==

Dunkellin also sat as Member of Parliament for Galway Borough between 1857 and 1865 and County Galway between 1865 and 1867. Prominent as an Adullamite, he moved the amendment on the Parliamentary Reform Bill on 18 June 1866, which later led to the fall of the government of Earl Russell. ==Personal life==

After years of ill health, Lord Dunkellin died in London in August 1867, aged 40, predeceasing his father by seven years. He never married. His younger brother Hubert later succeeded in the marquessate. ==Honours and Arms==

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