Bernard FitzPatrick, 2nd Baron Castletown

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Lord Castletown.
Lord Castletown.

Bernard Edward Barnaby FitzPatrick, 2nd Baron Castletown KP CMG PC (29 July 184929 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 the 4th Viscount Doneraile, in 1874. The marriage was childless. Lord Castletown died in 1937, aged 87, when the barony became extinct.


Parliament of the United Kingdom
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)

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