John FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory
John FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory
Biography
John FitzPatrick was born on 2 May 1745, the son of
He succeeded to his father's title of earl of Upper Ossory in 1758 but as this was a title in the
In 1794, he was given the title of 'Baron Upper Ossory', of Ampthill in the County of Bedford, in the Peerage of Great Britain, which gave him a seat in the House of Lords.
In 1763, Fitzpatrick was in Italy with the bibliophile, Topham Beauclerk; where he bought old-master paintings and commissioned paintings from Gavin Hamilton.[3] His is also thought to have been a patron of John Higton, given his depiction of "Dogs at Ampthill Park" in 1810.
On returning to Britain, Fitzpatrick embarked on an affair with Anne Fitzroy, wife of Prime Minister
John Fitzpatrick died in February 1818, aged 72, when his titles became extinct. His natural son, John, succeeded to parts of his estates and was given the title of Baron Castletown in 1869; however on his death his estate was inherited by his step-son Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland - who also adopted Ampthill Park as his seat. Fermyn Woods Hall, inherited from his father, passed to his daughters.
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Portrait of the daughter of John Fitzpatrick (1779).
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Lady Anne FitzPatrick.
References
- ^ a b "FITZPATRICK, John, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory [I] (1745-1818), of Ampthill, Beds. | History of Parliament Online".
- ^ Lt-Col Sir John M. Burgoyne, Bart, Regimental Records of the Bedfordshire Militia 1759–1884, London: W.H. Allen, 1884, pp. 2–4, 12–3, 17, 101, 106.
- ^ I. Bignamini, C. Hornsby, Digging And Dealing in Eighteenth-Century Rome (2010), p.334-335.
- ^ Peter Durrant, 'FitzRoy, Augustus Henry, third duke of Grafton (1735–1811)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2008 accessed 14 Feb 2017
- ^ "Yale edition of Walpole's correspondence". Archived from the original on 12 July 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
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