caption relations predecessor successor death_date birth_place constituency_mp party profession birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name occupation alma_mater
richard burke -lrb- studio of sir joshua reynolds -rrb- edmund burke edmund burke william baldwin 02 august 1794 battersea malton whig barrister 09 february 1758 1794 richard burke , by studio of sir joshua reynolds.jpg richard burke jr. .
 1794 richard burke agent of the catholic committee christ church , oxford
richard burke jr. .

richard burke -lrb- 9 february 1758 -- 2 august 1794 -rrb- was a barrister and member of parliament in england .
he was born in battersea , the son of edmund burke and jane mary nugent .
he was educated at westminster school and christ church , oxford , and was called to the bar at the middle temple in 1780 .
his father had high hopes for `` the whelp '' , never to be realized .
in 1791 richard carried out a mission to the koblenz headquarters of the french émigré army on behalf of his father , who was indulging in private diplomacy .
thereafter he returned to ireland to become an agent of the catholic committee , which attained a small measure towards catholic emancipation in the irish parliament 's `` roman catholic relief act '' -lrb- 1793 -rrb- .
in 1794 his father resigned his seat in parliament over the failure to convict warren hastings in a parliamentary impeachment .
richard was elected member of parliament for malton , north yorkshire , in succession to his father , but fell ill soon afterwards , and died in south kensington at the early age of thirty-six on 2 august 1794 , and was buried in beaconsfield .
the elder burke suffered grief on a scale described by eyewitnesses as `` truly terrific '' .
in the words of his biographer , edmund 's bursts of affliction were of fearful force , so overwhelming indeed as to fright and almost to paralyze those who were around them .
the dictionary of national biography article describes the grief of the parents as `` almost uncontrollable '' , and his father considered himself ` marked by the hand of god ' richard had been a member of the club since 1782 .
his contacts with samuel johnson were fairly slight , and on one occasion involved a rebuke to the younger man for futile attempts at `` smart drollery '' .
no evidence has been found to support the claim that he was married .
he should not be confused with his uncle , also named richard burke .
