William Robert Fitzgerald, second duke of Leinster

(1749-1804)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Leinster, William Robert FitzGerald, Duke of, 1749-1804 NRA: Fitzgerald William Robert (1749-1804) 2nd Duke of Leinster DNB: Fitzgerald, William Robert, second duke of Leinster (1749-1804), landowner and political reformer LBT ID: DuLeinc2 VIAF ID: 22002014 LOC ID: 58143194	B/BAP: 1749-03-12 DIED: 1804-10-20
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Son of the first duke (d. 1773) and relation of Charles James Fox, he was educated at Eton College, represented Dublin in the Irish Parliament, and supported Catholic Emancipation.
REFERENCES TO William Robert Fitzgerald, second duke of Leinster: Sydney Owenson to Robert Owenson, [1799?] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 27 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 11 March 1830 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n2 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XIV Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. IX: 1830-31 Found 1: ¶ n2