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Mayo, Richard Southwell Bourke

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Mayo, Richard Southwell Bourke (1822–1872)

Irish politician and administrator, three times chief-secretary of Ireland (1852, 1858, and 1866) and viceroy of India 1868–72.

Mayo was born in Dublin, and educated at Trinity College. He entered the House of Commons as a Conservative in 1847, and was given charge of Irish affairs in the three administrations of Lord Derby. Sent out to India to succeed John Lawrence, he was fatally stabbed by a convict while inspecting the settlement at Port Blair on the Andaman Islands.



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