Gerald FitzGerald, 5th Duke of Leinster

Gerald FitzGerald, 5th Duke of Leinster (16 August 1851 – 1 December 1893) was an Irish peer.

Leinster was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Charles FitzGerald, 4th Duke of Leinster and Lady Caroline Sutherland-Leveson-Gower. He married Lady Hermione Wilhelmina Duncombe (30 March 1864 – Mentone, 19 March 1895) in London on 17 January 1884.

He had the following children:

After his death, his around ten thousand stamp collection was bequeathed to the Dublin Museum of Science and Art, including an Inverted Swan he discovered inverted years after he took possession of it.^[2]

Sources and references

^ Peterkin, Tom; Elsworth, Catherine. A Californian claimant, an 'escape' from the trenches and the fight for a dukedom, Daily Telegraph, February 28, 2006. Accessed June 12, 2008.
^ Arthur Ronald Butler, The British Philatelic Federation Limited, 1990, page 18.

Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Charles FitzGerald	Duke of Leinster 1887–1893	Succeeded by Maurice FitzGerald

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