John FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory
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FitzPatrick was the son of John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory
John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory
John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory lived in County Cork in Ireland.He married Lady Evelyn Leveson-Gower, daughter of the 1st Earl Gower, on 29 June 1744. They had four children:...
, and Lady Evelyn Leveson-Gower, daughter of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower
John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower
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. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1758 but as this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to a seat in the British House of Lords. He was instead elected to the House of Commons
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for Bedfordshire
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in 1767, a seat he held until 1794. He was also Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire
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from 1771 to 1818. In 1794 he was created Baron Upper Ossory, of Ampthill in the County of Bedford, in the Peerage of Great Britain
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, which gave him a seat in the House of Lords.
In 1769, Lord Upper Ossory married the Hon. Anne Liddell, daughter of Henry Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth
Henry Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth
Henry Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth succeeded to the Baronetcy of Ravensworth Castle, and to the family estates and mining interests, at the age of fifteen, on the death of his grandfather in 1723...
, and divorced ex-wife of the incumbent Prime Minister Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
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Lord Upper Ossory died in February 1818, aged 72, when his titles became extinct. His illegitimate son John
John FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Castletown
John Wilson FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Castletown PC , known as John Wilson until 1842, was an Irish Liberal politician....
succeeded to parts of his estates and was created Baron Castletown
Baron Castletown
Baron Castletown, of Upper Ossory in the Queen's County, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 10 December 1869 for John FitzPatrick, the former Liberal Member of Parliament for Queen's County. He was the illegitimate son of John FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory...
in 1869.