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href="/wiki/John_FitzPatrick,_1st_Earl_of_Upper_Ossory" title="John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory">John FitzPatrick</a> (father)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Richard_FitzPatrick" title="Richard FitzPatrick">Richard FitzPatrick</a> (brother)<br /><a href="/wiki/Mary_Fox,_2nd_Baroness_Holland" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary Fox, 2nd Baroness Holland">Mary FitzPatrick</a> (sister)<br /><a href="/wiki/Louisa_Petty,_Marchioness_of_Lansdowne" title="Louisa Petty, Marchioness of Lansdowne">Louisa FitzPatrick</a> (sister)<br /><a href="/wiki/Richard_FitzPatrick,_1st_Baron_Gowran" title="Richard FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Gowran">Richard FitzPatrick</a> (grandfather)<br /><a href="/wiki/John_Leveson-Gower,_1st_Earl_Gower" title="John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower">John Leveson-Gower</a> (grandfather)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-weight:bold;">Military career</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Colonel_(United_Kingdom)" title="Colonel (United Kingdom)">Colonel</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Unit</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bedfordshire_Militia" title="Bedfordshire Militia">Bedfordshire Militia</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War" title="Seven Years' War">Seven Years' War</a><br /><a href="/wiki/American_War_of_Independence" class="mw-redirect" title="American War of Independence">American War of Independence</a><br /><a href="/wiki/French_Revolutionary_War" class="mw-redirect" title="French Revolutionary War">French Revolutionary War</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Oil-on-canvas_portrait_of_John_FitzPatrick,_2nd_Earl_of_Upper_Ossory_(1745%E2%80%931818)_by_Thomas_Beach_(1738-1806).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Oil-on-canvas_portrait_of_John_FitzPatrick%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Upper_Ossory_%281745%E2%80%931818%29_by_Thomas_Beach_%281738-1806%29.jpg/220px-Oil-on-canvas_portrait_of_John_FitzPatrick%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Upper_Ossory_%281745%E2%80%931818%29_by_Thomas_Beach_%281738-1806%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="272" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Oil-on-canvas_portrait_of_John_FitzPatrick%2C_2nd_Earl_of_Upper_Ossory_%281745%E2%80%931818%29_by_Thomas_Beach_%281738-1806%29.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="275" data-file-height="340" /></a><figcaption>The 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory by Thomas Beach.</figcaption></figure> <p><b>John FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory</b> <a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">FRS</a> <a href="/wiki/Deputy_Lieutenant" class="mw-redirect" title="Deputy Lieutenant">DL</a> (2 May [<a href="/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates" title="Old Style and New Style dates">O.S.</a> 21 April] 1745 – 13 February 1818), styled <b>Lord Gowran</b> from 1751–8, was an <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Irish" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-Irish">Anglo-Irish</a> peer, soldier, and <a href="/wiki/Member_of_parliament" title="Member of parliament">member of parliament</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_FitzPatrick,_2nd_Earl_of_Upper_Ossory&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hon. John FitzPatrick was born in 1745 at his family's home in <a href="/wiki/Berkeley_Square" title="Berkeley Square">Berkeley Square</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mayfair" title="Mayfair">Mayfair</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the eldest son of <a href="/wiki/John_FitzPatrick,_1st_Earl_of_Upper_Ossory" title="John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory">John FitzPatrick, 2nd Baron Gowran</a>, and Lady Evelyn (<i>née</i> Leveson-Gower, pronounced <i>Lewson Gore</i>; daughter of <a href="/wiki/John_Leveson-Gower,_1st_Earl_Gower" title="John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower">John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower</a>). He had a younger brother <a href="/wiki/Richard_FitzPatrick" title="Richard FitzPatrick">Richard</a>, who also became a noted statesman and soldier, and two younger sisters, <a href="/wiki/Mary_Fox,_Baroness_Holland" title="Mary Fox, Baroness Holland">Lady Mary</a> and <a href="/wiki/Louisa_Petty,_Marchioness_of_Lansdowne" title="Louisa Petty, Marchioness of Lansdowne">Lady Louisa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-extinct_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-extinct-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Her father was created <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Upper_Ossory" title="Earl of Upper Ossory">Earl of Upper Ossory</a> in 1751 but died in 1758, at which point the teenager succeeded to his father's titles of Earl of Upper Ossory and <a href="/wiki/Baron_Gowran" class="mw-redirect" title="Baron Gowran">Baron Gowran</a>. As there were both titles in the <a href="/wiki/Irish_peerage" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish peerage">Irish peerage</a>, he was not entitled to a seat in the <a href="/wiki/British_House_of_Lords" class="mw-redirect" title="British House of Lords">British House of Lords</a>. </p><p>His mother remarried to politician <a href="/wiki/Richard_Vernon_(MP)" title="Richard Vernon (MP)">Richard Vernon</a> and had at least two more children with him.<sup id="cite_ref-burke_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-burke-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_FitzPatrick,_2nd_Earl_of_Upper_Ossory&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1767, FitzPatrick was elected to the <a href="/wiki/British_House_of_Commons" class="mw-redirect" title="British House of Commons">House of Commons</a> for <a href="/wiki/Bedfordshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bedfordshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Bedfordshire</a>, a seat he held until 1794.<sup id="cite_ref-HoP_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HoP-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was also <a href="/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Bedfordshire" title="Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire">Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire</a> from 1771 to 1818.<sup id="cite_ref-HoP_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HoP-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had been appointed a <a href="/wiki/Captain_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)" title="Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)">captain</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Bedfordshire_Militia" title="Bedfordshire Militia">Bedfordshire Militia</a> when it was reformed in 1760 during the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War" title="Seven Years' War">Seven Years' War</a>, and assumed the <a href="/wiki/Colonel_(United_Kingdom)" title="Colonel (United Kingdom)">colonelcy</a> of the disembodied regiment when he became Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire. The regiment was embodied again for home defence during the <a href="/wiki/American_War_of_Independence" class="mw-redirect" title="American War of Independence">American War of Independence</a> and the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolutionary_War" class="mw-redirect" title="French Revolutionary War">French Revolutionary War</a>. He gave up the colonelcy on 25 June 1795 while remaining lord lieutenant.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1794, he was given the title of <b>Baron Upper Ossory</b>, of Ampthill in the County of Bedford, in the <a href="/wiki/Peerage_of_Great_Britain" title="Peerage of Great Britain">Peerage of Great Britain</a>, which gave him a seat in the House of Lords.<sup id="cite_ref-extinct_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-extinct-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1763, Fitzpatrick was in Italy with the bibliophile <a href="/wiki/Topham_Beauclerk" title="Topham Beauclerk">Topham Beauclerk</a>, where he bought old-master paintings and commissioned paintings from <a href="/wiki/Gavin_Hamilton_(artist)" title="Gavin Hamilton (artist)">Gavin Hamilton</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His is also thought to have been a patron of <a href="/wiki/John_Higton" title="John Higton">John Higton</a>, given his depiction of <i>Dogs at Ampthill Park</i> in 1810.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_FitzPatrick,_2nd_Earl_of_Upper_Ossory&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lucas,_David_-_Anne,_Duchess_of_Grafton.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Lucas%2C_David_-_Anne%2C_Duchess_of_Grafton.jpg/220px-Lucas%2C_David_-_Anne%2C_Duchess_of_Grafton.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="336" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Lucas%2C_David_-_Anne%2C_Duchess_of_Grafton.jpg/330px-Lucas%2C_David_-_Anne%2C_Duchess_of_Grafton.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Lucas%2C_David_-_Anne%2C_Duchess_of_Grafton.jpg/440px-Lucas%2C_David_-_Anne%2C_Duchess_of_Grafton.jpg 2x" data-file-width="474" data-file-height="724" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Anne_FitzPatrick,_Countess_of_Upper_Ossory" title="Anne FitzPatrick, Countess of Upper Ossory">Anne Liddell, Countess of Upper Ossory</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Like his younger brother Richard, Ossory was a friend of <a href="/wiki/Charles_James_Fox" title="Charles James Fox">Charles James Fox</a>, whilst their half-sister <a href="/wiki/Mary_Fox,_Baroness_Holland" title="Mary Fox, Baroness Holland">Lady Mary FitzPatrick</a> (1747–1778) had married Fox's older brother <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Fox,_2nd_Baron_Holland" title="Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland">Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland</a> (1745–1774). As such, Fitzpatrick became a father figure to his nephew <a href="/wiki/Henry_Vassall-Fox,_3rd_Baron_Holland" title="Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland">Henry Vassall-Fox</a> (1773–1740) on the death of his parents when he was young. </p><p>While in Europe in the early 1763, Ossory met <a href="/wiki/Horace_Walpole" title="Horace Walpole">Horace Walpole</a>, who in 1766 introduced him to the unhappily married <a href="/wiki/Anne_FitzPatrick,_Countess_of_Upper_Ossory" title="Anne FitzPatrick, Countess of Upper Ossory">Anne FitzRoy, Duchess of Grafton</a>, the wife of the philandering <a href="/wiki/Augustus_Fitzroy,_3rd_Duke_of_Grafton" class="mw-redirect" title="Augustus Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton">Augustus Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton</a> (who fathered 16 illegitimate children in his lifetime). They began an affair while she was separated from Grafton, who had begun a public affair with <a href="/wiki/Anne_Parsons" title="Anne Parsons">Anne Parsons</a>, a courtesan, in 1764, and had separated from his wife in January 1765.<sup id="cite_ref-walpole_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-walpole-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-con_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-con-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lady_Anne_FitzPatrick_by_Joshua_Reynolds.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Lady_Anne_FitzPatrick_by_Joshua_Reynolds.jpg/220px-Lady_Anne_FitzPatrick_by_Joshua_Reynolds.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="307" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Lady_Anne_FitzPatrick_by_Joshua_Reynolds.jpg/330px-Lady_Anne_FitzPatrick_by_Joshua_Reynolds.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Lady_Anne_FitzPatrick_by_Joshua_Reynolds.jpg/440px-Lady_Anne_FitzPatrick_by_Joshua_Reynolds.jpg 2x" data-file-width="735" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>Lady Anne FitzPatrick by Sir <a href="/wiki/Joshua_Reynolds" title="Joshua Reynolds">Joshua Reynolds</a>, c. 1775</figcaption></figure> <p>In August 1768, the Duchess of Grafton gave birth to Ossory's daughter, also named Anne. The Duke of Grafton, who that fall assumed the role of Prime Minister, sued her for divorce on the grounds of adultery. They were divorced by Act of Parliament in 1769, and she married Ossory that same year,<sup id="cite_ref-cokayne_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cokayne-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> three days after Grafton married Elizabeth Wrottesley. Wrottesley was ironically Ossory's cousin, the daughter of his aunt Lady Mary Leveson-Gower and <a href="/wiki/Sir_Richard_Wrottesley,_7th_Baronet" title="Sir Richard Wrottesley, 7th Baronet">Sir Richard Wrottesley, 7th Baronet</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Joshua_Reynolds_-_Collina_(1779).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Joshua_Reynolds_-_Collina_%281779%29.jpg/220px-Joshua_Reynolds_-_Collina_%281779%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="299" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Joshua_Reynolds_-_Collina_%281779%29.jpg/330px-Joshua_Reynolds_-_Collina_%281779%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Joshua_Reynolds_-_Collina_%281779%29.jpg/440px-Joshua_Reynolds_-_Collina_%281779%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2279" data-file-height="3096" /></a><figcaption>Lady Gertrude FitzPatrick by Reynolds, c. 1779</figcaption></figure> <p>They had one more surviving daughter, Lady Gertrude, in 1774, and lived at <a href="/wiki/Ampthill_Park" title="Ampthill Park">Ampthill Park</a>. As divorcées were not allowed in the Royal Court, the Countess of Upper Ossory rarely went to London and lived a quiet life at Ampthill. She died at Ampthill in 1804.<sup id="cite_ref-walpole_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-walpole-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After her death, had two surviving illegitimate children with an Elizabeth Wilson in London. The earl died in February 1818, aged 72, when both baronies and the earldom became extinct.<sup id="cite_ref-extinct_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-extinct-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some of his estates in England, including <a href="/wiki/Ampthill_Park" title="Ampthill Park">Ampthill Park</a>, were inherited by his nephew <a href="/wiki/Henry_Vassall-Fox,_3rd_Baron_Holland" title="Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland">Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland</a>. </p><p>His illegitimate children were raised at Ampthill under the guardianship of Holland and their half-sisters, Lady Anne and Lady Gertrude. They both inherited considerable estates and became peers. His son, <a href="/wiki/John_FitzPatrick,_1st_Baron_Castletown" title="John FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Castletown">John</a>, inherited his estates in Ireland and adopted the FitzPatrick surname in 1841. He was raised to the peerage as <a href="/wiki/Baron_Castletown" title="Baron Castletown">Baron Castletown</a> in 1869.<sup id="cite_ref-cokayne_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cokayne-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His daughter Emma Mary inherited his estates at Fermyn Woods, Lyvedon, and Grafton.<sup id="cite_ref-cokayne_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cokayne-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1823, she married <a href="/wiki/Robert_Vernon,_1st_Baron_Lyveden" title="Robert Vernon, 1st Baron Lyveden">Robert Vernon</a>, the grandson of <a href="/wiki/Richard_Vernon_(MP)" title="Richard Vernon (MP)">Ossory's stepfather</a>. In 1859, Robert Vernon was raised to the peerage as <a href="/wiki/Baron_Lyveden" title="Baron Lyveden">Baron Lyveden</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-burke_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-burke-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Issue">Issue</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_FitzPatrick,_2nd_Earl_of_Upper_Ossory&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Issue"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ossory had three daughters with Anne Liddell: </p> <ul><li>Lady Anne Fitzpatrick (23 August 1768 – 14 December 1841), legitimised by her parents' marriage in March 1769</li> <li>Lady Mary (born 24 February 1770), died as an infant</li> <li>Lady Gertrude Fitzpatrick (7 August 1774 – 30 September 1841)</li></ul> <p>He had three illegitimate children with Elizabeth Wilson, who were all baptised by Rev. Dr. <a href="/wiki/Luke_Heslop" title="Luke Heslop">Luke Heslop</a> on 28 February 1813 at <a href="/wiki/St_Marylebone_Parish_Church" title="St Marylebone Parish Church">St Marylebone Parish Church</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-extinct_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-extinct-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Emma Mary Wilson (5 April 1806 – 25 September 1882), who married in 1823 <a href="/wiki/Robert_Vernon,_1st_Baron_Lyveden" title="Robert Vernon, 1st Baron Lyveden">Robert Vernon Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_FitzPatrick,_1st_Baron_Castletown" title="John FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Castletown">John Wilson</a> (later FitzPatrick; 1807/9–1883), raised to the peerage in 1869 as <a href="/wiki/Baron_Castletown" title="Baron Castletown">Baron Castletown</a></li> <li>Richard 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