John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory explained

Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Earl of Upper Ossory
Office1:Member of Parliament for Bedfordshire
Term1:1753–1758
Death Date:23 September
Education:Queen's College, Oxford
Father:Richard FitzPatrick
Children:John, Richard, Mary and Louisa

John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory (1719  - 23 September 1758), styled Lord Gowran from 1727–51, was an Anglo-Irish nobleman and politician from County Cork, Ireland.

Biography

Fitzpatrick was the son of Richard FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Gowran, and Anne (Robinson) and was educated at Queen's College, Oxford.

He succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Gowran in 1727 and his mother to the estates of Farmingwoods (now Fermyn Woods), Northamptonshire and Ampthill, Bedfordshire in 1744. He was created Earl of Upper Ossory in the Irish peerage on 5 October 1751. He was MP for Bedfordshire from 1753–8.

He married Lady Evelyn Leveson-Gower, daughter of the 1st Earl Gower, on 29 June 1744. They had four children:[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Burke . Bernard . A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire . 1866 . Harrison . 210 . 16 September 2024 . en.