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Earl of Dermot Robert Wyndham Bourke Mayo
1851–1927
An Anglo-Irish peer, politician, and writer, he moved through public life in Britain and Ireland while also publishing travel writing drawn from his experiences abroad. He is also remembered as a patron of the arts and as a long-serving figure in the Irish representative peerage.
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Sport in Abyssinia; Or, The Mareb and Tackazzee
by Earl of Dermot Robert Wyndham Bourke Mayo
About the author
Born in 1851, the 7th Earl of Mayo succeeded to the title in 1872 after the death of his father, Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo. He was educated at Eton, served in the cavalry and the Grenadier Guards, and later took his seat as an Irish representative peer in the House of Lords.
Public life remained a major part of his career for decades. He was involved in Irish political institutions during a period of major change, including service in the Senate of Southern Ireland and later in Seanad Éireann. Sources also describe him as a landowner and a patron of the arts.
He wrote Sport in Abyssinia; or, The Mareb and Tackazzee, a travel and sporting account that reflects another side of his life beyond politics. Dermot Robert Wyndham Bourke died in 1927.