Ulysses Burgh, 2nd Baron Downes photograph

Ulysses Burgh, 2nd Baron Downes

Ulysses Burgh, 2nd Baron Downes Life story


General Ulysses de Burgh, 2nd Baron Downes GCB, was an Irish soldier and Tory politician. A General in the British Army, he served as Surveyor-General of the Ordnance under Lord Liverpool and, after succeeding a cousin as second Baron Downes, he was an Irish Representative Peer in the House of Lords.

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