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'''Richard Gordon FitzGerald Uniacke, [[Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland|FRSAI]]''' (19 August 1867 – 1934) was the eldest son of the Rev. Robert FitzGerald Uniacke, late vicar of [[Tandridge, Surrey]], a descendant of an old Irish family, the Uniackes of Uniacke and Castleton, County Cork. He was a great grandson of Richard John Uniacke (1753–1830), Attorney-General of Nova Scotia.<ref name="rootsweb">[http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/UNIACKE/2009-01/1231677647 Uniacke genealogy site] {{dead link|date=March 2016}}</ref>
'''Richard Gordon FitzGerald Uniacke, [[Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland|FRSAI]]''' (19 August 1867 – 1934) was the eldest son of the Rev. Robert FitzGerald Uniacke, late vicar of [[Tandridge, Surrey]], a descendant of an old Irish family, the Uniackes of Uniacke and Castleton, County Cork. He was a great grandson of Richard John Uniacke (1753–1830), Attorney-General of Nova Scotia.<ref name="rootsweb">[http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/UNIACKE/2009-01/1231677647 Uniacke genealogy site] {{wayback|url=http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/UNIACKE/2009-01/1231677647 |date=20130823235949 }}</ref>


Born in 1867, he was educated at [[Repton]] and [[Trinity College, Oxford]], where he graduated with honours in history, and rowed in his college eight. A Latin and historical scholar and genealogist, Uniacke was a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland]]. For many years he served as assistant librarian at the [[College of Arms]]. A genealogist and archivist, in 1894 Richard G. F. Uniacke published "Some Old County Cork Families: The Uniackes of Youghal" in the ''Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society''.<ref name="rootsweb"/>
Born in 1867, he was educated at [[Repton]] and [[Trinity College, Oxford]], where he graduated with honours in history, and rowed in his college eight. A Latin and historical scholar and genealogist, Uniacke was a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland]]. For many years he served as assistant librarian at the [[College of Arms]]. A genealogist and archivist, in 1894 Richard G. F. Uniacke published "Some Old County Cork Families: The Uniackes of Youghal" in the ''Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society''.<ref name="rootsweb"/>

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Richard Gordon FitzGerald Uniacke, FRSAI (19 August 1867 – 1934) was the eldest son of the Rev. Robert FitzGerald Uniacke, late vicar of Tandridge, Surrey, a descendant of an old Irish family, the Uniackes of Uniacke and Castleton, County Cork. He was a great grandson of Richard John Uniacke (1753–1830), Attorney-General of Nova Scotia.[1]

Born in 1867, he was educated at Repton and Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated with honours in history, and rowed in his college eight. A Latin and historical scholar and genealogist, Uniacke was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. For many years he served as assistant librarian at the College of Arms. A genealogist and archivist, in 1894 Richard G. F. Uniacke published "Some Old County Cork Families: The Uniackes of Youghal" in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.[1]

Personal life

In 1882, he married Cecilia Monica Lambert, of Garratt's Hall, Banstead, Surrey. The couple had three sons and two daughters. He died in 1934, aged 67, and was survived by his wife, one son, Richard Heygate FitzGerald Uniacke (1898–1972),[2] and one daughter,[3] Gwladys Patricia (born c. 1901–died 1980), who married, in 1926, to Major Sir Wilfred John Wilson Croker Barrow, 5th Bt. (1897–1960).[4] Another son, Desmond Percival FitzGerald Uniacke (1895–1933) predeceased his parents, as did two other children who died as minors.

Sources

  • "Newspaper Abstracts: UNIACKE". Rootsweb.

References

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