Bernard FitzPatrick, 2nd Baron Castletown
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(29 July 1849 – 29 May 1937) was an Irish
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soldier and Conservative
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Biography
Castletown was the only son of John FitzPatrick, 1st Baron CastletownJohn FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Castletown
John Wilson FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Castletown PC , known as John Wilson until 1842, was an Irish Liberal politician....
, and his wife Augusta Mary (née Douglas), and was educated at Eton
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and Brasenose College, Oxford
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He was appointed High Sheriff of Queen's County
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in 1876. He served in the Life Guards
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and fought in Egypt
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in 1882. He also sat as Member of Parliament
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for Portarlington
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from 1880 to 1883, when he succeeded his father in the barony and entered the House of Lords
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. Castletown was later Chancellor of the Royal University of Ireland
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between 1906 and 1910. In 1908 he was made a Knight of the Order of St Patrick and admitted to the Irish Privy Council.
Lord Castletown married the Hon. Emily Ursula Clare St Leger, daughter of the 4th Viscount Doneraile
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, in 1874. The marriage was childless. Lord Castletown died in 1937, aged 87, when the barony became extinct.