Bernard FitzPatrick, 2nd Baron Castletown
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Bernard Edward Barnaby FitzPatrick, 2nd Baron Castletown KP CMG PC (29 July 1849 – 29 May 1937) was an Irish soldier and Conservative Member of Parliament.
Castletown was the only son of John FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Castletown, and his wife Augusta Mary (née Douglas), and was educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford. He served in the Life Guards and fought in Egypt in 1882. He also sat as Member of Parliament for Portarlington from 1880 to 1883, when he succeeded his father in the barony and entered the House of Lords. Castletown was later Chancellor of the Royal University of Ireland between 1906 and 1910. In 1908 he was made a Knight of the Order of St Patrick and admitted to the Irish Privy Council.
Lord Castletown married the Hon. Emily Ursula Clare St Leger, daughter of Hayes St Leger, 4th Viscount Doneraile, in 1874. The marriage was childless. Lord Doneraile died in 1937, aged 87, when the barony became extinct.
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| Preceded by Lionel Dawson-Damer |
Member of Parliament for Portarlington 1880–1883 |
Succeeded by Robert French-Brewster |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by John FitzPatrick |
Baron Castletown 1883–1937 |
Succeeded by (extinct) |
