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MAYO, See also:RICHARD See also:SOUTHWELL See also:BOURKE, 6TH See also:EARL OF (1822-1872) , See also:British statesman, son of See also:Robert Bourke, the 5th earl (1797-1867), was See also:born in See also:Dublin on the 21st of See also:February, 1822, and was educated at Trinity See also:College, Dublin. After travelling in See also:Russia he entered See also:parliament, and sat successively for See also:Kildare, See also:Coleraine and See also:Cockermouth. He was See also:chief secretary for See also:Ireland in three administrations, in 1852, 1858 and 1866, and was appointed See also:viceroy of See also:India in See also:January 1869. He consolidated the frontiers of India and met Shere See also:Ali, See also:amir of Afghanis-tan, in See also:durbar at See also:Umballa in See also:March 1869. His reorganization of the finances of the See also:country put India on a paying basis; and he did much to promote See also:irrigation, See also:railways, forests and otheruseful public See also:works. Visiting the convict See also:settlement at See also:Port See also:Blair in the Andaman Islands, for the purpose of inspection, the viceroy was assassinated by a convict on the 8th of February 1872. His successor was his son, Dermot Robert See also:Wyndham Bourke (b. 1851) who became 7th earl of Mayo. See See also:Sir W. W. See also:Hunter, See also:Life of the Earl of Mayo, (1876), and The Earl of Mayo in the Rulers of India See also:Series (1891).

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