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Lord Edward FitzGerald (15 October 1763 – 4 June 1798) was an Irish aristocrat and nationalist. He abandoned his prospects as a distinguished veteran of British service in the American War of Independence, and as an Irish Parliamentarian, to embrace the cause of an independent Irish republic.
Role In: Irish Rebellion. Lord Edward Fitzgerald (born Oct. 15, 1763, County Kildare, Ire.—died June 4, 1798, London, Eng.) was an Irish rebel renowned for his gallantry and courage. He was a leading conspirator behind the uprising of 1798 against British rule in Ireland.
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Fitzgerald, Lord Edward (1763–98), United Irishman, was born 15 October 1763 in London, the fifth son and twelfth child of James FitzGerald (qv), first duke of Leinster, and his wife, Emily FitzGerald (qv) (née Lennox), daughter of the duke of Richmond.
Lord Edward FitzGerald (15 de octubre de 1763 - 4 de junio de 1798) fue un aristócrata y revolucionario irlandés que murió a causa de las heridas recibidas mientras se resistía al arresto por cargo de traición.
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 Leinster, and his wife, the former Lady Hermione Duncombe.
Lord Edward FitzGerald - Irish Biography. Alfred Webb. A Compendium of Irish Biography. 1878. FitzGerald, Lord Edward, twelfth child of the 1st Duke of Leinster, and brother of preceding, was born at Whitehall, London, 15th October 1763. At the age of sixteen he accompanied his mother and step-father (Mr. Ogilvy) to France.
In 1810, the radical journalist Watty Cox accompanied a lead article in his Irish Magazine on Lord Edward Fitzgerald with a crude yet dramatic woodcut of the famous arrest of the United Irishman on 18 May 1798. The woodcut conflates the events of Fitzgerald’s capture as they occurred at 135 Thomas Street, Dublin, the home of a feather ...
