THE OBSERVER CARTOON.

Observer, Volume 4, Issue 94, 1 July 1882, Page 254

THE OBSERVER CARTOON.

4. 5 N"o. 25. — Lobd Cavendish and Me T. H. Burke. Our cartoon this week contains very good likenesses of the late Lord P. C. Cavendish, Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and of the late Mr T. H. Burke, Under Secretary for Ireland. The circumstances of their assassination by an orgauised band of conspirators — probably Fenian emissaries from America — — have been detailed at such length in our contemporaries, and must bo so fresh in the minds of our readers, as to render recapitulation unneccessary. Lord Cavendish was born in 1836, being the second son of the Duke of Devonshire and of Lady Blanche . Howard, daughter of the sixth Earl of Carlisle. He was educated at Trinity Oollege 3 Cambridge, and filled the posts of private secretary to Lord Grranville, and private secretary to Mr Gladstone. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1865 for the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was appointed one of the Lords of the Treasury in 18*73 ; Financial Secretary to the Treasury in 1875,. which office he resigned on his appointment to the Chief Secretaryship of Ireland. He v married in 1864 Lucy Caroline, second daughter of Lord William, fourth Lord Lyltelton, but he leaves no issue. He was a man of great ability and business capacity, and had endeared himself to all who | were brought into contact with him. The late Mr T. H. Burke was born in 1829, and was the eldest son of the late Mr William Burke, of Knocknagur, G-alway, his mother, Fanny Zaveria Tucker, having been a niece of the i late Cardinal Wiseman. Mr Burke was educated i in Belgium. He became private secretary to Sir Thomas Redington, Under Secretary for Ireland, and he filled the same post for Lord Carlington, Sir Robert Peel, and Lord Hartington. He had long experience in the Chief Secretary's ' Office in Dublin Castle, having served there under the late Sir Thomas Larcom, whom he succeeded in 1868 in the office of Under Secretary. He was unmarried, a Roman Catholic, and heirpresumptive of his cousin, Sir John Lionel Burke. He was an able, upright man, much beloved by his friends, and respected and esteemed by his official contemporararies. He met his death, it is believed, through being in the company of Lord Cavendish.