was ambassador at St Petersburg,
and later postmaster-general and lord privy seal, and married George
Canning's daughter. His son (b. 1832), who achieved notoriety in the
Irish land agitation, succeeded him as 2nd marquess.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.--See the article "Burgh, Ulick de," in the _Dict. of
Nat. Biography_, and authorities there given; _Hist. of the Irish
Confederation_, by R. Bellings, ed. by J.T. Gilbert (1882);
_Aphorismical Discovery_ (Irish Archaeological Society, 1879);
_Memoirs of the Marquis of Clanricarde_ (1722, repr. 1744); _Memoirs
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FOOTNOTE:

[1] _Hist. MSS. Comm.: MSS of Earl of Egmont_, i. 223.

CLANVOWE, SIR THOMAS, the name of an English poet first mentioned in the
history of English literature by F.S. Ellis in 1896, when, in editing
the text of _The Book of Cupid, God of Love, or The Cuckoo and the
Nightingale_, for the Kelmscott Press, he stated that Professor Skeat
had discovered that at the end of the best of the MSS. the author was
called Clanvowe. In 1897 this information was confirmed and expanded by
Professor Skeat in the supplementary volume of his Clarendon Press
_Chaucer_ (1894-1897). The beautiful romance of _The Cuckoo and the
Nightingale_ was published by Thynne in 1532, and was attributed by him,
and by successive editors down to the days of Henry Bradshaw, to
Chaucer. It was due to this error that for three centuries Chaucer was
supposed to be identified with the manor of Woodstock, and even painted,
in fanciful pictures, as lying

"Under a maple that is fair and green,
Before the chamber-window of the Queen
At Wodestock, upon the greene lea."

But this queen could only be Joan of Navarre, who arrived in 1403, three
years after Chaucer's death, and it is to the spring of that year that
Professor Skeat attributes the composition of the poem. Sir Thomas
Clanvowe was of a Herefordshire family, settled near Wigmore. He was a
prominent figure in the courts of Richard II. and Henry IV., and is said
to have been a friend of Prince Hal. He was one of those who "had begun
to mell of