Sir Theobald Burke, 13th Baronet

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| name = Sir Theobald Hubert Burke

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| native_name = Teabóid Búrca

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| unit = {{ubl| 88th Connaught Rangers | 18th Royal Irish Regiment }}

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| rank = Lieutenant-Colonel (1866)

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Lt Colonel Sir Theobald Hubert Burke, 13th Baronet (25 March 1833 – 4 April 1909) was an Irish soldier and baronet who served during the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny.

Background

Burke was born in Waterslade House,{{Cite web|url= http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/IRL-GALWAY/2005-04/1113629416|title= RootsWeb: IRL-GALWAY-L Part 2 – THE TUAM HERALD |date= 10 April 1909|location= TUAM, CO. GALWAY}}] at archiver.rootsweb.com Tuam, County Galway. 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 Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny, and later exchanged into the 18th Royal Irish Regiment in 1866, and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Family

He inherited the title from Sir John Lionel Burke, 12th Baronet, in 1884, and when he died in London aged 76 the Baronetcy became extinct.

One brother Thomas Henry Burke was Permanent Under Secretary at the Irish Office.
Another brother Augustus Nicholas Burke was an artist.

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|crest = Out of a ducal coronet Or, a plume of five ostrich feathers Argent.

|escutcheon = Or, a cross Gules in the dexter canton a lion rampant sable

|motto = IN HOC SIGNO VINCES (In this sign thou shalt conquer){{Cite book |last=Burke |first=Bernard |url=http://archive.org/details/generalarmoryofe00burk |title=The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time |date=1884 |publisher=London : Harrison & sons |others=University of California Libraries}}

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