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Ulysses Burgh, 2nd Baron Downes

The Right Honourable
The Lord Downes
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Lord Downes in 1850.
Surveyor-General of the Ordnance
In office
16 March 1820 – 18 May 1827
Monarch George VI
Prime Minister The Earl of Liverpool
Preceded by Sir Robert Moorsom
Succeeded by Sir Edward Owen
Personal details
Born 15 August 1788
Died 26 July 1864 (1864-07-27) (aged 75)
Nationality British
Political party Tory
Spouse(s) (1) Maria Bagenal
(1788-1842)
(2) Christopheria Buchanan
(d. 1860)

General Ulysses de Burgh, 2nd Baron Downes GCB (15 August 1788 – 26 July 1864), was an Irish soldier and Tory politician. A General in the British Army, he served as Surveyor-General of the Ordnance under Lord Liverpool between 1820 and 1827. After succeeding a cousin as second Baron Downes in 1826, he sat in the House of Lords as an Irish Representative Peer from 1833 until his death.

Born Ulysses Burgh, he was the son of Thomas Burgh and Anne, daughter of David Aigion. His great-grandfather was Ulysses Burgh, Bishop of Ardagh. In 1848 he assumed by Royal licence the surname of de Burgh in lieu of simply Burgh. His grandfather Thomas Burgh was one of the foremost Irish architects of his time, who designed many notable buildings, including Trinity College Library and Dr Steevens' Hospital. His father was comptroller-general and commissioner of the revenue of Ireland, and second cousin of William Downes, who was Lord Chief Justice of Ireland from 1803 to 1822; and his two sisters had married respectively the Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer and the Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer.

Ulysses Burgh was born at Dublin on 15 August 1788. He entered the British Army, and was promoted by family influence. He was gazetted ensign in the 54th Regiment of Foot on 31 March 1804, and was promoted lieutenant on 12 November 1804, and captain on 4 September 1806. He was employed in ordinary garrison duty with his regiment at Gibraltar and in the West Indies till 1808, when he exchanged into the 92nd and accompanied Sir John Cradock to Portugal as aide-de-camp.


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