High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Bourke, 1st Baron Connemara GCIE, PC (11 June 1827 – 3 September 1902) was a British Conservative politician and colonial administrator. He served as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 1874 and 1880 and 1885 and 1886 and was Governor of Madras between 1886 and 1890.