Background
He was the second son of John Bourke, 1st Earl of Mayo and Mary Deane. In 1760, he married Elizabeth Meade, daughter of Sir Richard Meade, 3rd Baronet and Catherine Prittie.
He was the second son of John Bourke, 1st Earl of Mayo and Mary Deane. In 1760, he married Elizabeth Meade, daughter of Sir Richard Meade, 3rd Baronet and Catherine Prittie.
Theodosia"s son, the Rt Revd Matthew Hale, was the first Bishop of Perth and then the Bishop of Brisbane. Prior to his elevation to the episcopate, his earlier ecclesiastical appointments were Prebendary of Armagh (1760–1768). Dean of Killaloe (1768–1772) and Rector of Kilskyre, near Kells, County Meath (1769–1772).
And Dean of Dromore (1772).
He was nominated the Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin on 7 September 1772 and appointed by letters patent on 19 September 1772. He was consecrated at Saint Thomas"s Church, Dublin on 11 October 1772.
The principal consecrator was John Cradock, Archbishop of Dublin, and the principal co-consecrators were Charles Jackson, Bishop of Kildare and William Newcome, Bishop of Dromore. Ten years later, he was translated to the archbishopric of Tuam by letters patent on 8 August 1782.
He died at Kilbeggan in County Westmeath on 20 August 1794, and was interred in the burying ground of his family near Naas, County Kildare.