Lord Henry FitzGerald

Lord Henry FitzGerald PC (Ire) (30 July 1761 – 9 July 1829) was the fourth son of the 1st Duke of Leinster and the Duchess of Leinster (née Lady Emily Lennox). A younger brother was the revolutionary Lord Edward FitzGerald.

Life

FitzGerald was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Kildare Borough between 1776 and 1783 and represented then Athy between 1790 and 1791. From 1790 to 1798, he sat in the Irish House of Commons for Dublin City. On 8 July 1806, he was appointed to the Privy Council of Ireland, and from 1807 until 1814, Lord Henry served in the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Kildare. He also held the position of one of the joint Postmasters General of Ireland from April 1806 until May 1807.^[1] He was a member of the Kildare Street Club in Dublin^[2] and died at Boyle Farm, Thames Ditton, on 9 July 1829.

Family

He married Charlotte Boyle Walsingham in London on 3/4 August 1791. Together they lived at Boyle Farm, Thames Ditton. The couple had twelve children; his issue took the surname FitzGerald-de Ros:

Henry William FitzGerald-de Ros, 22nd Baron de Ros (1793–1839)
Lt. Col. Arthur John Hill FitzGerald-de Ros (21 December 1795 – 23 February 1826)
General William Lennox Lascelles FitzGerald-de Ros, 23rd Baron de Ros (1797–1874)
Edmund Emilius Boyle FitzGerald-de Ros (4 May 1799 – 12 September 1810)
RAdm. John Frederick FitzGerald-de Ros (6 March 1804 – 19 June 1861)
Augustus FitzGerald-de Ros (b. 1805), died young
Henrietta Mabel FitzGerald-de Ros (d. 22 December 1879), married on 24 October 1828 John Broadhurst of Foston Hall (d. 1861)
Olivia Cecilia FitzGerald-de Ros (11 January 1807 – London, 21 April 1885), married on 22/23 October 1833 Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley
Charlotte FitzGerald-de Ros (d. 1813)
Geraldine FitzGerald-de Ros (d. 28 September 1881), married on 25 November 1830 The Rev. Frederic Pare
Cecilia FitzGerald-de Ros (d. 6 October 1869), married on 10 December 1835 The Hon. John Boyle (13 March 1803 - 6 December 1874), son of Edmund Boyle, 8th Earl of Cork and had issue
Jane FitzGerald-de Ros (d. 1885), married Col. Christopher Hamilton MP, and had issue

References

^ "FITZGERALD, Lord Henry (1761-1829), of Boyle Farm, Kent and Thames Ditton, Surrey". Members Biographies. The History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2014-02-18.
^ Thomas Hay Sweet Escott, Club Makers and Club Members (1913), pp. 329–333

Philip J Burchett (1984). A Historical Sketch of THAMES DITTON. Surrey: Thames Ditton and Weston Green Residents' Association. ISBN 0-904811-20-4.
FitzGerald genealogy
Peerage.com
Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages ^{[self-published source]} ^{[better source needed]}
Ducal House of Leinster

Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by Simon Digby Sir FitzGerald Aylmer, 6th Bt	Member of Parliament for Kildare Borough with Simon Digby 1776–1783	Succeeded by Simon Digby Robert Graydon
Preceded by Lord Edward FitzGerald Thomas Burgh	Member of Parliament for Athy with Arthur Ormsby 1790–1791	Succeeded by Frederick John Falkiner Arthur Ormsby
Preceded by Nathaniel Warren Travers Hartley	Member of Parliament for Dublin City with Henry Grattan 1790–1797	Succeeded by Arthur Wolfe John Claudius Beresford
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Lord Robert FitzGerald Robert Latouche	Member of Parliament for Kildare with Robert Latouche 1807–1814	Succeeded by Robert Latouche Lord William FitzGerald

[1] "FITZGERALD, Lord Henry (1761-1829), of Boyle Farm, Kent and Thames Ditton, Surrey". Members Biographies. The History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2014-02-18.

[2] Thomas Hay Sweet Escott, Club Makers and Club Members (1913), pp. 329–333

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