Edmund Haviland-Burke (1836 - 1886)

Ancestors

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Biography

Birth & Parents

Edmund Haviland-Burke, Esq., son of Thomas William Aston Haviland-Burke & Harriet Elizabeth Minshull ^[1][2], was born 1836.

Life

Edmund Haviland-Burke was a British politician (Irish nationalist) and member of Parliament for Christchurch. ^[3]

Haviland-Burke, Edmund, Esq., M.P. of Willistown, co. Louth, and of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law, representative of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, of Butler's Court, Beaconsfield, co. Bucks, b. 27 Jan 1836; s. his father, Thomas-WIlliam-Aston Haviland-Burke, Esq.,, 3 April, 1852. He was elected M.P. for Christchurch 1868.

Family of Haviland

... Thomas Haviland, Esq. of Penn, colonel in the army, m. 3 June, 1792, Mary-Cecilia, dau. of Patrick French, Esq., of the Frenchs of Rasau, co. Galway, by his wife, Julia, only sister of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, of Butler's Court, and d. 1795, leaving by her (who d. 5 March, 1816) an only child, Thomas-William-Aston Haviland, barrister-at-law, b. 10 Aug. 1795, who upon the death of his mother, 1816, having become sole blood relation and representative of his illustrious great-uncle, the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, obtained the royal license to take the name of Burke in addition to and after that of Haviland. Mr. Haviland-Burke m. 1827, Harriet-Elizabeth, 2nd dau. of the late William Minshull, Esq., of the Minshulls of Aston Clinton, Bucks, an ancient family ennobled by Charles I., and still having estates in that county, and by her had issue, Edmund, his heir...

Mr. Haviland-Burke d. 3 April, 1852, and was s. by his only son, the present Edmund Haviland-Burke, Esq., M.P. ^[1]

Death & Burial

Obituary:

THE THAMES, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1887

In Memoriam.

On the 17th June, 1886, in the county of Dublin, in his 51st year, EDMUND HAVILAND BURKE, Esq., only son of the late Thomas William Aston Haviland Burke, Esq., and great grandnephew of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, of Beaconsfield. He was Barrister at law and for some years Member for Christchurch, HampShire. (In loving memory.)

Though Edmund Burke is now often considered the “father of modern conservatism,” Edmund Haviland-Burke was a Liberal. He voted for the disestablishment of the Irish Church in 1869, unsuccessfully contested Christchurch in July 1865, and sat for that bourough from December 1868 until his retirement in 1874. ^[4]

Sources

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Burke, Gentry, 5th Edition, Vol 1, p. 600.
2. ↑ de Havilland, Chronicle, p. 16.
3. ↑ Wikipedia.
4. ↑ Obituary.

Documentation

• Primary:Obituary. From: Papers of Edmund Haviland Burke, Member of Parliament for Christchurch, Dorset (1868-1874). Parliament Archives: 9 Nov 2007.
• Secondary:Burke, Sir Bernard. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. I, Fifth Edition. London, England: Harrison, Pall Mall, 1875.
• Secondary:de Havilland, John von Sonntag. A Chronicle of the Ancient and Noble Norman Family of De Havilland, originally of Haverland, in the Cotentin Normandy, now of Guernsey. The Mekeel Press, 1895. See Archive.org.
• Papers at House of Lords Record Office: The Parliamentary Archives. Record Reference: BUR. See Memorandum no 60 1978, Palace of Westminster, London, SW1A OPW, England. hlro@parliament.uk - National Archives.
• Wikipedia