Major Sir George Peter Maurice FitzGerald, 5th Baronet, 23rd Knight of Kerry (27 February 1917 – 6 April 2001) was a hereditary knight and

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soldier. He was the son of Sir

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and Mary Eleanor Forester.Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003) He was educated at

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and at Sandhurst. He fought in the Palestine Campaign in 1939, where he was mentioned in despatches. He fought in the Second World War and was decorated with the award of

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(MC) in 1944. He retired from the military in 1948, with the rank of major, late of the

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. He succeeded to the titles of 23rd

Knight of Kerry Knight of Kerry (), also called The Green Knight, is one of three Hiberno-Norman Knight#Ireland, hereditary knighthoods, all of which existed in Ireland since feudal times. The other two were White Knight (Fitzgibbon family), The White Knight ( ...

and 5th Baronet of Valentia on 30 November 1967 on the death of his father, the 22nd Knight and 4th Baronet. He was succeeded by his son

Adrian FitzGerald Sir Adrian James Andrew Denis FitzGerald, 6th Baronet of Valentia Island, Valentia, 24th Knight of Kerry (born 24 June 1940) is a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, UK and former Mayor of the Royal Borough ...

, the 24th Knight and 6th Baronet.

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