the loyalty of the comparatively small class of propertied Catholics by securing them the vote on the same very limited, and idiosyncratic, term on which it was available to Protestants. While this was achieved with Roman Catholic Relief Act 1793, it was not before the younger Burke was replaced as secretary of the Catholic Committee in Dublin by the United Irishman, Theobald Wolfe Tone, in a move that signalled a radicalisation of Catholic opinion. On his father’s retirement in 1794, Burke accepted an offer from Lord William Fitzwilliam, appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, of his English parliamentary seat at Malton. However, after receiving what his father called "a glimmering of public hope", a week after his election, Richard Burke died of tuberculosis on 2 August 1794. Edmund Burke "reproached himself for having made such unsparing use of his son’s services". References Resources Encyclopedia of Richard Burke 1758 births 1794 deaths People educated at Westminster School, London Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Members of the Middle Temple Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1790–1796 Politicians from County Cork