James Fitzgerald, first duke of Leinster

(1722-1773)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Leinster, James Fitzgerald, Duke of, 1722-1773 NRA: Fitzgerald James (1722-1773) 1st Duke of Leinster DNB: Fitzgerald, James, first duke of Leinster (1722-1773), politician and landowner LBT ID: DuLeinc1 VIAF ID: 58143194 LOC ID: n87869420	B/BAP: 1722-05-29 DIED: 1773-11-19
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Irish magnate and politician, the son of Robert Fitzgerald, nineteenth earl of Kildare; in 1747 he married Lady Emily Lennox, daughter of the second duke of Richmond.
REFERENCES TO James Fitzgerald, first duke of Leinster: Countess of Blessington to Peter George Patmore, [September? 1832] in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 1 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Lady Blessington IV