Career
He was one of the peers who conducted the trial of the Duke of Norfolk in 1572. Sir Thomas Burgh succeeded to the title of 3rd Lord Burgh on 10 September 1584, by writ. He was invested as a Knight of the Garter on 23 April 1593.
In 1594, he was appointed as English Ambassador to Scotland.
On 18 April 1597, he was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland but held the office only briefly, dying the same year. Robert Burgh, 4th Baron Burgh (c1594 – 26 February 1602), buried at Winchester Cathedral 19 March 1602.
Elizabeth Burgh, married George Brooke, a younger son of William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham, and had issue. Anne Burgh (died after 1 June 1641), who married Sir Drew Drury on 11 October 1604.
Frances Burgh (died before 24 November 1618), who married Francis Coppinger.
Katherine Burgh (died April 1646), who married, on 28 February 1620, Thomas Knyvett, son of Sir Thomas Knyvett and Elizabeth Bacon and had issue. Burgh died at Newry, County Down, Ireland, on 14 October 1597. 314 years later, on 5 May 1916, the abeyance was terminated in favour of Alexander Henry Leith, 5th Baron Burgh (1866–1926).
