Sir Adrian James Andrew Denis FitzGerald, 6th Baronet of
Valencia
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, 24th Knight of Kerry (born 24 June 1940) is a
Conservative Party
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politician in the
UK and former Mayor of the
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
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. He is the current "Green"
Knight of Kerry
Knight of Kerry (), also called The Green Knight, is one of three Hiberno-Norman hereditary knighthoods, all of which existed in Ireland since feudal times. The other two were The White Knight (surname fixed as Fitzgibbon), being dormant sinc ...
, and thus has been the only holder of an active Irish hereditary knighthood since the 2011 death of his distant cousin
.
The title has no official recognition in Ireland, which has been a republic since 18 April 1949 when the
Republic of Ireland Act 1948
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came into effect.
Family
The eldest son and heir of
Sir George FitzGerald M.C., 5th Baronet, 23rd Knight of Kerry, by his wife Angela (Lady FitzGerald), daughter of Captain James Rankin Mitchell, of
Mayfair
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, Adrian was educated at
Harrow School
(The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God)
, established = (Royal Charter)
, closed =
, type = Public schoolIndependent schoolBoarding school
, religion = Church of E ...
.
Career
A founder-member (1962) of the
Conservative Monday Club
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, he was firstly editor of their ''Newsletter'', and from 1967–74 editor of their glossy magazine, ''Monday World''. He has served as an elected Councillor of the
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
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in
London
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from 1974 until his retirement in 2002, as Mayor (1984–85), and as Chairman of their Education and Libraries Committees from 1995. In 1989-90 he was Deputy Leader of the London Fire and Civil Defence Authority.
Other interests
Sir Adrian has also served as Chairman of the Anglo-Polish Society for 1989–92, and is currently its president. He is vice chairman of the London chapter of the
Irish Georgian Society
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and a patron of the ''Save
Sloane Square
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campaign'' and the anti-
euthanasia
Euthanasia (from el, εὐθανασία 'good death': εὖ, ''eu'' 'well, good' + θάνατος, ''thanatos'' 'death') is the practice of intentionally ending life to eliminate pain and suffering.
Different countries have different eut ...
organisation ''Alert''.
Alert's Patrons
Sir Adrian is a Knight of Malta, and was President of the Irish Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), officially the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta ( it, Sovrano Militare Ordine Ospedaliero di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme, di Rodi e di Malta; ...
(SMOM) resigning in May 2015. He divides his time between his homes in South Kensington
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, London, and Cappoquin
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, County Waterford
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, Ireland.
Ancestry
References
External links
* PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE of NORTHERN IRELAND
The FitzGerald (Knights of Kerry) Papers (MIC/639 and T/3075)
BURKE'S PEERAGE & GENTRY'S A TO Z GUIDE
Sir Adrian FitzGerald on Geni.com
(Ireland)
Irish knights
Adrian
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1940 births
Living people
British people of Dutch-Jewish descent
British people of German-Jewish descent
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Councillors in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Knights of Malta
People educated at Harrow School
Politicians from County Waterford
Mayors of places in Greater London
Place of birth missing (living people)
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