Lord Edward Fitzgerald

(1763-1798)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Fitzgerald, Edward, Lord, 1763-1798 NRA: Fitzgerald Lord Edward (1763-1798) Irish Rebel DNB: Fitzgerald, Lord Edward (1763-1798), Irish nationalist and army officer LBT ID: EdFitzg1798 VIAF ID: 72149084 LOC ID: no97036085	B/BAP: 1763-10-15 DIED: 1798-06-04
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After serving in the American war and becoming an Iroquois chieftain he became a leader of the United Irishmen and was killed during the 1798 rebellion. His life was written by Thomas Moore (1831).
REFERENCES TO Lord Edward Fitzgerald: Lord Byron to John Murray, 12 August 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 10 Sir Walter Scott to Walter Scott, jun., 21 April 1821 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) The Regent; The Irish Avatar Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 5 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1819 [John Mitford], “Lady Blessington's Conversations of Lord Byron” in The Gentleman’s Magazine NS 1 (June 1834) 583-93 Found 1: ¶ 48 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter III 1821 Chapter IX 1822-23 Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) The Pisan Circle Found 1: ¶ 7 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter II. Found 3: ¶ 134 ¶ 140 ¶ 142 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 IV Found 1: ¶ 2 Chapter XXI Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 Chapter XXIV Found 1: ¶ 3 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter II. 1805-1809. Found 1: ¶ 1