Michael Burke, 10th Earl of Clanricarde PC (Ire.) (1686–28 November 1726), styled Lord Dunkellin until 1722, was an Irish peer who was Governor of Galway (1712–14) and a Privy Counsellor in Ireland (1726).

Career

Burke was the son of John Burke, 9th Earl of Clanricarde and educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He was summoned to the Irish House of Lords to sit, during his father's lifetime, under the subsidiary and courtesy title of Lord Dunkellin. He was appointed Governor of Galway in 1712 and invested as a Privy Counsellor in Ireland on 15 July 1726. On his death, on 28 November 1726, he was buried in Christchurch, Dublin.

Family

He married, on 19 September 1714, to Anne Smith (d.1743), daughter of the House of Commons Speaker John Smith and the widow of Hugh Parker of Honington, warwickshire, who after her death in 1732 was buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey. They had 2 sons and 2 daughters:

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