Maurice Fitzgerald ( English Maurice FitzGerald, 6th Duke of Leinster ; March 1, 1887 - February 4, 1922 ) - Irish aristocrat , 6th Duke of Leinster (1893-1922), peer of Ireland .
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| English Maurice FitzGerald, 6th Duke of Leinster | |||||||
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| Predecessor | Gerald Fitzgerald, 5th Duke of Leinster | ||||||
| Successor | Edward Fitzgerald, 7th Duke of Leinster | ||||||
| Birth | March 1, 1887 Kilkee Castle , County Kildare , Ireland | ||||||
| Death | February 4, 1922 ( 34) Edinburgh , Midlothian , Scotland | ||||||
| Kind | Fitzgeralds | ||||||
| Father | Gerald Fitzgerald, 5th Duke of Leinster | ||||||
| Mother | Lady Hermione Duncombe | ||||||
| Spouse | not married | ||||||
| Children | childless | ||||||
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His titles: 6th Duke of Leinster (since 1893), 6th Marquis of Kildare (since 1893), 11th Baron Offaly (since 1893), 25th Earl of Kildare (since 1893), 6th Earl of Offaly (with 1893), 6th Viscount Leinster of Taplow ( Buckinghamshire County) (since 1893) and 3rd Baron Kildare of Kildare ( County Kildare ) (since 1893) .
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Biography
Born March 1, 1887 in Kilky Castle , a family castle of the Fitzgerald family. The eldest son of Gerald Fitzgerald, 5th Duke of Leinster (1851–1893), and Lady Hermione Wilhelmina Dankmob (1864–1895), daughter of the 1st Earl of Fevershem .
On December 1, 1893, after the death of his 42-year-old father, Gerald Fitzgerald, 5th Duke of Leinster, from typhus, 1 -year-old Maurice inherited the title and estate of the Dukes of Leinster. His mother died of tuberculosis in 1895 at the age of 40.
Maurice Fitzgerald was educated at Eton College .
Family
Maurice had an older sister and two younger brothers:
- Sister (1885 - February 5, 1886)
- Lord Desmond Fitzgerald (1888-1916), major , died during the First World War , single and childless
- Edward Fitzgerald, 7th Duke of Leinster (1892-1976), it is possible that his biological father was Hugo Richard Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemisse [2] .
Loss of possessions
During the minority of Maurice Fitzgerald, all the large estates of his family in the county of Kildare were sold in November 1903 by his guardians. 506 tenants bought them thanks to the activities of the Irish Land Commission . Some of these lands have had hereditary tenants since the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1171 . 45,000 acres of land were sold for £ 766,000 at that time, but this was supposed to cover the debts that amounted to more than £ 272,000, which appeared during the life of the 4th Duke of Leinster. [3] .
Mental illness and death
Maurice Fitzgerald, the 6th Duke of Leinster, as the then press wrote, was little known among the aristocrats of Great Britain and London in particular. They wrote that this is connected with the way of his life, he supposedly eschews peace and communication, loves loneliness and a healthy lifestyle. In fact, the young Duke was then a patient at Craig House Hospital, a psychiatric institution in Edinburgh , Midlothian , Scotland . There he lived in his own villa, which was attended by a butler , from 1907 until his death in 1922 [4] [5] [6] .
From 1908 until his death, John Donald Pollock was his personal physician and confidant [7] .
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Notes
- ↑ Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower, Old Diaries: 1881-1901 (G. Scribner's, 1902), page 205
- ↑ Angela Lambert, Unquiet Souls (Harper & Row, 1984), page 64
- ↑ Cosgrove PJ The sale of the Leinster Estate under the Wyndham Act, 1903 ; Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society 2008-09, vol. XX, part 1, pp. 9-26.
- ↑ Daily Telegraph obituary
- ↑ Dani Garavelli, “State of Mind: How the Royal Edinburgh Hospital Helped Change Attitudes to Mental Illness”, The Scotsman , 3 October 2012
- ↑ “Title Fight,” The Glasgow Herald , October 21, 1976, page 6
- ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 . - The Royal Society of Edinburgh, July 2006 .-- ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.