Robert Uniacke-Penrose-Fitzgerald

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Mr Robert Uniacke Penrose-Fitzgerald MP for 'Cambridge Borough', as depicted by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, February 1895[1]
Barton Family with Sir Robert Uniacke-Penrose-Fitzgerald

Sir Robert Uniacke-Penrose-Fitzgerald, 1st Baronet of Corkbeg and Lisquinlan (10 July 1839 – 10 July 1919), was a British Conservative politician.

Fitzgerald was the son of Robert Uniacke Penrose (1800 – 11 June 1857) of Cork Beg Island, County Cork. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[2] He rowed at Cambridge and won the University Pairs with J. P. Ingham in 1860. He rowed in the Cambridge boat in the Boat Race in 1861 and 1862 when Oxford won in both years.[3] After university he travelled in India and Tibet from 1863 to 1867.

Fitzgerald was elected to the House of Commons for Cambridge in the 1885 general election, a seat he held until the 1906 election. In 1896 he adopted the name Uniacke-Penrose-Fitzgerald and was created a baronet, of Corkbeg and Lisquinlan in the County of Cork. He owned about 6,000 acres (2,428 ha) in County Cork and was Director of the Property Defence Association and Cork Defence Union against Land League. He was also President of the Council of the Yacht Racing Association.

Uniacke-Penrose-Fitzgerald died at Westminster on his eightieth birthday, when the baronetcy became extinct.

Fitzgerald married Jane Emily Codrington, daughter of General Sir William John Codrington, in 1867. They had no children. Lady Jane Uniacke-Penrose-Fitzgerald died in 1924.

Ancestry

Family of Robert Uniacke-Penrose-Fitzgerald
16. John Penrose
8. Cooper Penrose
17. Ann Cooper
4. James Penrose
9. Elizabeth Denniss
2. Robert Uniacke-Penrose-FitzGerald
40. Thomas Uniacke
20. Robert Uniacke-FitzGerald
41. Helena Borr
10. Robert Uniacke Fitzgerald
21. Frances Lepp Judkin
5. Louisa Petitot Uniacke-FitzGerald
22. Richard Bullen
11. Louisa Pettitot Bullen
1. Robert Uniacke-Penrose-Fitzgerald
6. Robert Austen
3. Frances Matilda Austen
14. William Cokayne
7. Matilda Sophia Cokayne
15. Barbara Hill

See also

References

  1. ^ CAMBS: PENROSE-FITZGERALD Cambridge MP. Vanity Fair Spy cartoon 1895 by Antiqua Print Gallery
  2. ^ "Fitzgerald, Robert Uniacke Penrose (FTST859RU)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ Walter Bradford Woodgate Boating 1888

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Cambridge
1885–1906
(representation reduced to one member 1885) 		Succeeded by
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Corkbeg and Lisquinlan)
1906–1919 		Extinct
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