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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Irish cricketer and Royal Navy officer (1879–1960)}}<br />
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| country = Ireland<br />
| full_name = Hubert Henry de Burgh<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1879|2|16}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Naas]], [[County Kildare]], Ireland<ref name="CAP">[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/13/13287/13287.html CricketArchive profile]</ref><br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1960|10|6|1879|2|16|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place = Naas, County Kildare, Ireland<ref name="CAP"/><br />
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| batting = Right-handed<br />
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| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]<br />
| year1 = 1905/06<br />
| columns = 1<br />
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]<br />
| matches1 = 2<br />
| runs1 = 39<br />
| bat avg1 = 13.00<br />
| 100s/50s1 = –/–<br />
| top score1 = 28<br />
| hidedeliveries = true<br />
| catches/stumpings1 = –/–<br />
| date = 1 January<br />
| year = 2022<br />
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/24544.html ESPNcricinfo<br />
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| allegiance = {{flagicon|UK|military}} United Kingdom<br />
| branch = {{navy|UK}}<br />
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| service_years = 1893–1923; 1939–1945<br />
| rank = {{ubl| [[Lieutenant]] (1903) | [[Captain]] (1917) }}<br />
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'''Captain Hubert Henry de Burgh''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|DSO}} ({{IPAc-en|lang|d|ə|'|b|ɜːr}} {{respell|də|BUR}}; 16 February 1879 – 6 October 1960) was an Irish cricketer and Officer in the Royal Navy.<br />
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==Background==<br />
Captain de Burgh was the eldest son of Colonel Thomas John de Burgh, DL, JP of Oldtown, Naas, [[County Kildare]] (1851–1931)and Emily, daughter of Baron de Robeck. He was the brother of Captain Charles de Burgh DSO, RN, a submarine commander and Lieutenant Tom de Burgh of the 31st Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers who was killed in action in 1914.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}<br />
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The de Burghs of Oldtown have been at Oldtown since the house was built by Colonel [[Thomas de Burgh]], architect of [[Trinity College Dublin|Trinity College Dublin Library]], The Custom House, The Royal Barracks and St Steven's Hospital in Dublin. Hubert de Burgh and his descendants are direct descendants of [[William de Burgh]] who first settled in Ireland in 1185.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}<br />
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==Career==<br />
Commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1893, Hubert de Burgh was posted as a lieutenant to [[HMS Prince of Wales (1860)|HMS ''Britannia'']] in January 1903.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=31 December 1902 |page=4 |issue=36965}}</ref> He served in India as [[Aide de Camp]] (ADC) to the King at the [[Delhi Durbar]] in 1911 and in St Petersburg. During the Great War he commanded destroyers and was made a Companion of the [[Distinguished Service Order]] for bravery at sea in 1917<ref>''London Gazette'', Supplement 1917 - Search Online</ref> as well as being twice [[mentioned in despatches]]. After commanding the Admiralty Yacht and serving in the Mediterranean, Captain de Burgh retired in 1923 until he re-joined the Royal Navy in 1939.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}<br />
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==Cricket==<br />
Early in his life, de Burgh played a first-class match in [[India]] for a "Europeans" team against a [[Hinduism|Hindus]] team in February 1906.<ref name="FCM" /> A right-handed batsman, he played just once for the [[Ireland national cricket team]],<ref name="CESZP">[http://www.cricketeurope4.net/CSTATZ/irelandall/ire1538.htm CricketEurope Stats Zone profile]</ref> a [[first-class cricket|first-class]] match against [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]] in June 1926.<ref name="FCM">[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/13/13287/First-Class_Matches.html First-class matches played by Hubert de Burgh at CricketArchive]</ref><br />
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