| Richard Albert Fitzgerald | |
| Office: | Member of Parliament for |
| Term Start: | 21 February 1845 |
| Term End: | June 1847 |
| Predecessor: | Robert Otway-Cave Nicholas Maher |
| Successor: | Francis Scully Nicholas Maher |
| Alongside: | Nicholas Maher |
| Birth Date: | 1806 |
| Birth Place: | Clonmel, County Tipperary |
| Death Date: | circa June |
| Death Place: | Youghal, County Cork |
| Death Cause: | Typhus fever contracted while helping with the poor during the famine of 1847 |
| Restingplace: | Youghal Cemetery family vault |
| Residence: | Muckridge house, Youghal, County Cork; Garnavilla House, Caher, County Tipperary; Rathkervan in the parish of Rathtronan, Garnavilla, County Tipperary |
| Alma Mater: | Clongowes and then studied Law at TCD but never practiced |
| Birthname: | Richard Albert FitzGerald |
| Nationality: | Irish |
| Party: | Repeal Association |
| Parents: | Richard FitzGerald and Catherine 'Kate' Nagle |
| Spouse: | Amelia/Emilia Frizoni di Celerina of Lisbon 1807–1895 the daughter of Daniel Frizoni 1765–1854 and Anna Isabella Lecussan Verdier 1788–1821 |
| Children: | 1. Annie Catherine 1837–1919 married Andrew Thunder 1824–1902, 2. Richard Edwin 1838–1916 married Lucie Martin du Boistaillé 1840–1882, 3. Marie Geraldine 1840–1917, 4. Catherine Hélène Elizabeth Mary FitzGerald 1842–1916 married Alfred Taupinart de Tilière, comté 1843–1916, 5. Ada Cecily Charlotte FitzGerald 1844– married Humbert Beausire de Seyssel, comté died 1918, 6. Christina Frances FitzGerald 1845–1934 married Victor Laurent Valentin Sommyèvre, vicomte de Chateau Courchevelles Burgundy 1828–1909, 7 Maria FitzGerald 1847–1916 married her third cousin Auguste Anthony Morlet de Museau ca 1839–1916 |
Richard Albert Fitzgerald (1806 –)[1] was an Irish Repeal Association politician.
He was educated at Clongowes Wood College and St. Patrick's, Carlow College, and also spent some time being taught in Paris.[2]
Fitzgerald was first elected Repeal Association MP for at a by-election in 1845—caused by the death of Robert Otway-Cave—and held the seat until 1847, when he did not seek re-election.[3]