Personal Life
Bourchier was of Irish Protestant descent. The Bourchier surname is of Anglo-Norman origin. He was also a Freemason.
He married Minona Francis Madden, daughter of politician Sir Frank Madden, on 16 June 1921. They had a daughter and two sons.
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