Gerald FitzGerald, 5th Duke of Leinster (16 August 1851 – 1 December 1893) was an Anglo-Irish peer.

Biography

Leinster was born in

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, Ireland, the son of The 4th Duke of Leinster and Lady Caroline Sutherland-Leveson-Gower. He married Lady Hermione Wilhelmina Duncombe (30 March 1864 – Mentone, France, 19 March 1895), daughter of The 1st Earl of Feversham, in London on 17 January 1884. It was not a happy marriage. She died of tuberculosis at age 30. The Leinsters had the following children: *

Maurice FitzGerald, 6th Duke of Leinster Maurice FitzGerald, 6th Duke of Leinster (1 March 1887 – 4 February 1922), was the eldest son of the 5th Duke of Leinster and his wife, the former Lady Hermione Wilhelmina Duncombe, a daughter of The 1st Earl of Feversham. Biography Born ...

(1 March 1887 – 4 February 1922) * Major Lord Desmond FitzGerald (21 September 1888 – 3 March 1916), presumed

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in the

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According to the Scottish War Memorials Project, Col. Lord Desmond's death occurred thus: "Fr Lane Fox OSB was chaplain to the Irish Guards. He lost his right eye and hand in a bombing accident. He was standing by Colonel Lord Desmond Fitzgerald watching a bombing practice. The Colonel said "Now Padre, you can have a try". Fr Lane Fox took a bomb, pulled out the pin and then before the proper time the bomb exploded in his hand, destroying his right eye and hand and killing Lord Desmond Fitzgerald. He also served with the 2nd London Irish of 47th Division and was awarded the Military Cross and the French Medaille Militaire". See http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-post-42305.html *

Edward FitzGerald, 7th Duke of Leinster Edward FitzGerald, 7th Duke of Leinster, etc. (6 May 1892 – 8 March 1976), known as Lord Edward FitzGerald before 1922, was Ireland's Premier Peer of the Realm. Life Leinster was the youngest of the three sons born to Gerald, 5th Duke of L ...

(6 May 1892 – 8 March 1976), whose alleged biological father was

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. After the 5th Duke's death of typhoid fever, his

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, which contained around ten thousand pieces, was bequeathed to the Dublin Museum of Science and Art. It included an

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which he had discovered was inverted years after he took possession of it.Arthur Ronald Butler, The British Philatelic Federation Limited, 1990, page 18.

Ancestry

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FitzGerald The FitzGerald/FitzMaurice Dynasty is a noble and aristocratic dynasty of Cambro-Norman, Anglo-Norman and later Hiberno-Norman origin. They have been peers of Ireland since at least the 13th century, and are described in the Annals of the ...

1851 births 1893 deaths High Sheriffs of Kildare Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Fathers of philately Dukes of Leinster (1766)