The Lord FitzGerald PC, PC (Ire) | |
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Lord of Appeal in Ordinary | |
In office 1882–1889 | |
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Born | John David FitzGerald |
John David FitzGerald, Baron FitzGerald, PC, PC (Ire) (1 May 1816 – 16 October 1889) [1] was an Irish judge and Liberal politician.
Born in Dublin, he was the son of the merchant David FitzGerald and his wife Catherine, eldest daughter of David Leahy. [2] His sister Kate was married to Charles Robert Barry and his youngest sister Emily to Denis Caulfield Heron. [3] FitzGerald was educated privately and was called to the bar by King's Inns in 1838. [2] In 1870, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Dublin. [4]
FitzGerald became a Queen's Counsel in 1847, and was a judge of the Munster circuit. [2] He entered the House of Commons in 1852, sitting for Ennis the next eight years. [5] In 1855, FitzGerald was first elected a bencher, then nominated Solicitor-General for Ireland. [4] He became Attorney-General for Ireland a year later, on which appointment he was sworn of the Privy Council of Ireland. [2] FitzGerald held the former post until 1858 and after a break for a year, again until 1860, when he was appointed Judge on the Court of Queen's Bench (Ireland). [4] On 23 June 1882, he was created a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary with the life peerage title of Baron FitzGerald, of Kilmarnock, in the County of Dublin. [6] Six days later, he was additionally sworn of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. [4]
In 1846, he married Rose, second daughter of John Donohoe, and had by her three sons. [7] She died in 1850, and FitzGerald remarried Hon. Jane Matilda Mary, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Francis Southwell and Mary Ann Agnes Dillon, and sister of Thomas Southwell, 4th Viscount Southwell. [7] By his second wife, he had four sons and six daughters. [7] The former Conservative politician Amber Rudd is his great-great-granddaughter.
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