Maurice FitzGerald, 6th Duke of Leinster

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Maurice FitzGerald, 6th Duke of Leinster (1 March 1887 – 4 February 1922), was the eldest son of

Lady Hermione Wilhelmina Duncombe, a daughter of the 1st Earl of Feversham
.

Biography

Born at Kilkea Castle and never married but was educated at Eton College,[1] he acceded to the dukedom and its related titles upon his father's death from typhoid fever in 1893, at age 42;[2] his mother died of tuberculosis in 1895, at age 30.

The Duke had three siblings:

During his minority, his family's large estates in

mortgages and £272,000 that was earmarked to family trusts for the surviving younger children of the 4th duke.[4]

Mental illness and death

The 6th Duke was reported to be in delicate health from childhood onwards and, the day before he turned 21, in 1908, a newspaper observed that he was "little known in London", due to the "careful way in which he has been obliged to live".[5] Actually, the young Duke was, at the time, a patient at Craig House Hospital, a psychiatric institution, in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; there he lived in his own villa, attended by a butler, from 1907 until his death in 1922.[6][7][8]

From 1908 until death

John Donald Pollock served as his personal physician and confidant.[9]

Ancestry

References

  1. Fleet street, London, UK: Dean & Son. p. 553.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link
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  2. ^ Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower, Old Diaries: 1881-1901 (G. Scribner's, 1902), page 205
  3. ^ Angela Lambert, Unquiet Souls (Harper & Row, 1984), page 64
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Setting Traps for a Duke", The New York Times, 1 March 1908
  6. ^ "The Duke of Leinster". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 27 June 2023.
  7. ^ Dani Garavelli, "State of Mind: How the Royal Edinburgh Hospital Helped Change Attitudes to Mental Illness",The Scotsman, 3 October 2012
  8. ^ "Title Fight", The Glasgow Herald, 21 October 1976, page 6
  9. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  10. ISBN 0-906223-34-2
    .
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Duke of Leinster
1893–1922 		Succeeded by
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