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BOURKE, JOHN, son of John Bourke, Limerick, and Lucia Parker; b. 28 May 1742; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 12) 1754; KS (Capt.) 1755; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Feb 1758; of Dromsally, co. Limerick, and St. Anne’s, Dublin; m. Sep 1774 Anne, dau. of Edmund Ryan, Dublin and Boscabell, co. Tipperary; d. 1795.

BOURKE, JOSEPH; b.; adm. 18 Apr 1811; left 1814.

BOURKE, SIR RICHARD, only surviving son of John Bourke (qv); b. 4 May 1777; at school under Smith (signed Play Protest, 1847); spoke prologue to King John, performed by some of the Town Boys, Dec 1789 (Annual Register, 1790, 133-4); Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 Oct 1793; migrated to Exeter Coll., adm. gent. commoner; BA 1798; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards, 22 Nov 1798; Lieut. and Capt., 25 Nov 1799; Brevet Maj., and Superintendent Junior Department, RMC Sandhurst, 27 Aug 1805; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 16 Sep 1806; Col., 4 Jun 1814; Maj. -Gen., 19 Jul 1821; Lieut. -Gen., 10 Jan 1837; Col. of 64th Foot, 29 Nov 1837; Gen., 11 Nov 1851; served in Helder expedition 1799, severely wounded at Bergen; QMG in South America 1807; Assist. QMG in Peninsular War 1808-9, 1812-4; Lieut. -Gov., Eastern division of Cape of Good Hope 4 Jul 1825 - Jan 1828; Governor of New South Wales and of Van Diemen’s Land, 27 Apr 1831 - 6 Dec 1837; his impartiality made him a most popular governor, the Press was freed from restrictions and a regular scheme of emigration from the United Kingdom was established; a statue was erected to him in Sydney, and an Australian county and Bourke Street, Melbourne, were named after him; CB 4 Jun 1815; KCB 26 Jan 1835; retired to his estate in co. Limerick; High Sheriff, co. Limerick, 1839; JP co. Limerick; edited with Earl Fitzwilliam the Correspondence of Edmund Burke, 1844; m. 22 Mar 1800 Elizabeth Jane, sister of John William Bourke (qv); d. 13 Aug 1855. DNB.

BOURKE, ROBERT, 5TH EARL OF MAYO (I), only son of Hon. and Right Rev. Richard Bourke, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, and Frances, dau. of Robert Fowler (adm. 1738, qv); b. 12 Jan 1797; adm. 22 Sep 1807; left 1814; . Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Oct 1814; succ. his uncle as 5th Earl of Mayo (I) 23 May 1849; an Irish Representative Peer from 1852; took Conservative whip in House of Lords; m. 3 Aug 1820 Anne Charlotte, only dau. of Hon. John Jocelyn MP, Tair Hill, co. Louth; d. 12 Aug 1867.

BOURNE, CHARLES JOHNSTON, son of Robert Burr Bourne (qv); b. 24 Aug 1835; adm. 4 Feb 1848 (Scott's); Min. Can. 1850; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 8 Jun 1854; BA 1859; ordained; Curate, Crawley, Hants.; d. at Nice 15 Feb 1861.

BOURNE, ROBERT BURR, son of Robert Bourne MD FRCP, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Oxford Univ., and Mary, dau. of James Burr, Ditchley, Oxfordshire, Steward to George Henry Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield (qv); b.; adm. 13 Sep 1809; KS 1812; Capt. of the School 1816; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1817, matr. 22 May 1817, Westminster Student; BA 1821; MA 1823; adm. Inner Temple 1821; an Usher at the School 1822-9; ordained deacon 1826, priest 1827; Rector of St. Paul’s Cray, Kent, 21 Oct 1836-52; Curate, Grimley, Worcs., 1849-56; Rector of Donhead St. Andrew, Wilts., 1856-77; m. 14 Dec 1830 Eliza Jane, dau. of John Johnston, Danson Park, Kent; d. 30 Jan 1885, aged 86.

BOURNE, ROBERT, son of Robert Burr Bourne (qv); b. 3 Jul 1832; adm. 4 Feb 1848 (Scott's); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Jun 1851; Ensign, 2nd West India Regt., 11 Nov 1853; Lieut., 15 Feb 1855; Capt., 7 Dec 1855; 54th Foot, 5 Sep 1856; retd. 5 Jun 1857; Hon. Lieut. -Col., Worcestershire Volunteers, 1873-82; DL Worcestershire, JP (1861) Worcs.; High Sheriff, Herefordshire, 1890, JP Herefordshire; of Cowarne Court, Herefs.; m. 6 Jan 1857 Anna Eliza, youngest dau. of Samuel Baker, Lypiatt Park, Gloucs.; d. 30 Jun 1915.

BOURNE, THOMAS, only son of Vincent Bourne (qv); b. 28 Jan 1727/8; adm. Sep 1735; left 1742; 2nd Lieut., Marines (by Sep 1746); afterwards a Lieut., Bury’s Foot; d. 10 Jul 1751.

BOURNE, THOMAS, of Hertfordshire; b.; adm.; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. Bishop Williams scholar 15 Nov 1624 (so presumably educated at the School), matr. Mich. 1624.

BOURNE, VINCENT, son of Andrew Bourne, St. Martins in the Fields, Westminster, wig maker, and Ann --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 22 Jul 1694 (IGI); adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1709; QS 1710; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1714, adm. pens. 27 May 1714, scholar 13 May 1715, matr. 1715; BA 1717/8; MA 1721; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 6 Sep 1720, Major Fellow 5 Jul 1721; an Usher at the School 1720 - Sep 1747; kept a boarding house in Cowley Street 1731-40 and in College Street 1741 to death 2 Dec 1747, where he was succeeded by Mrs.Porten. First of thirty-one recorded boarders adm. Jan.1735/6, last recorded boarder adm. Oct 1745. Five further boarders, adm. between Jun 1749 and Jan 1751/2, are described in Dr.Nicoll’s admission book as boarding with “Bourne”, and it may be that these were boarders with Bourne’s widow Lucia, presumably at a different address from that in College Street; Housekeeper and Deputy Serjeant-at-Arms, House of Commons, Nov 1734; an indolent teacher and a lax disciplinarian; William Cowper (qv), who loved “the memory of Vinny Bourne” and translated a number of his old master’s Latin poems into English verse, relates seeing the Duke of Richmond “set fire to his greasy locks and box his ears to put it out again” (Southey, Life and Works of William Cowper, iv, 98); a Latin poet of great charm, “sucking from every flower, making a flower of everything, his diction all Latin and his thoughts all English” (Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1905, vi, 457); published his Poemata, Latine partim reddita partim scripta, 1734; m. 25 Mar 1727 Lucia, widow of George Jewell (qv); d. 2 Dec 1747. DNB.