Christopher Fitzsimon (died 25 July 1856) was an Irish barrister and politician. From

Glencullen Glencullen () is a village and townland in the county of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown in south County Dublin, Ireland. It is also the name of the valley above one end of which the village sits, and from which it takes its name, and is on the R ...

(at the time spelt 'Glancullen'), Fitzsimon married Ellen O'Connell, eldest daughter of

Daniel O'Connell Daniel O'Connell (I) ( ga, Dónall Ó Conaill; 6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847), hailed in his time as The Liberator, was the acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century. His mobilizat ...

. By March 1829 he was the only Catholic on the grand jury of

Wicklow Wicklow ( ; ga, Cill Mhantáin , meaning 'church of the toothless one'; non, Víkingaló) is the county town of County Wicklow in Ireland. It is located south of Dublin on the east coast of the island. According to the 2016 census, it has ...

. As a member of the

Repeal Association The Repeal Association was an Irish mass membership political movement set up by Daniel O'Connell in 1830 to campaign for a repeal of the Acts of Union of 1800 between Great Britain and Ireland. The Association's aim was to revert Ireland to th ...

, he was one of two MPs elected for

County Dublin "Action to match our speech" , image_map = Island_of_Ireland_location_map_Dublin.svg , map_alt = map showing County Dublin as a small area of darker green on the east coast within the lighter green background of ...

in the 1833 Election. In August 1841 Fitzsimon's seat, Glencullen hosted the "cabinet council", the centre of the agitation movement against Robert Peel's government. Attendees included Viscount Morpeth and

Frederick Romilly Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Romilly (21 March 1810 – 6 April 1887), was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1850 to 1852 and a cricketer who played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Romilly was a younger son of Si ...

. In later life Fitzsimon held the lucrative office of

Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper The Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper was a civil servant within the Irish Chancery in the Dublin Castle administration. His duties corresponded to the offices of Clerk of the Crown and Clerk of the Hanaper in the English Chancery. Latterly, the o ...

.The Times, ''Whig Patronage'' 6 August 1841

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fitzsimon, Christopher Year of birth missing 1856 deaths Irish barristers Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Dublin constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1832–1835 UK MPs 1835–1837 Irish Repeal Association MPs