James (FitzGerald), 1st Duke of Leinster

1722 - 1773  (51 years)

• Name	James (FitzGerald)  [1]
  Suffix	1st Duke of Leinster
  Born	29 May 1722  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Office	From 1741 to 1744  [1]
  	Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Athy
  	He was under age at this time.
  Hereditary Title	20 Feb. 1743/44  [1]
  	Earl of Kildare
  Office	19 March 1744/45  [2]
  	Privy Councillor (P.C.) (Ireland)
  	Sworn 22 May 1746. In 1770 he was removed from the Privy Council at his own request. [1]
  Hereditary Title	21 Feb. 1746/47  [3]
  	1st Viscount Leinster of Taplow, co. Buckingham [G.B., 1747]
  Office	From 1756 to 1757  [3]
  	One of the Lords Justices Vice-Regents [I.]
  Office	From 1758 to 1766  [3]
  	Master General of the Ordnance [I.]
  Military Service	From 1760 to 1766  [3]
  	Colonel, Royal Irish Artillery
  Military Service	From 1761 to 1770  [3]
  	Major-General
  Office	1761  [3]
  	Governor of County Kildare
  Hereditary Title	3 March 1761  [3]
  	1st Earl of Offaly [I., 1761]
  Hereditary Title	3 March 1761  [3]
  	1st Marquess of Kildare [I., 1761]
  Hereditary Title	26 Nov. 1766  [3]
  	1st Duke of Leinster [I., 1766]
  Military Service	1770  [3]
  	Lieutenant-General
  Probate	1773  [3]
  	Prerogative Court for Ireland
  Died	19 Nov. 1773	Leinster House, Dublin, Ireland   [3]
  Buried	Christ Church, Dublin, Ireland   [3]
  Person ID	I1266	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	13 July 2019

  
  

  Family	Lady Emilia Mary Lennox,   b. 6 Oct. 1731,   d. 27 March 1814, Grosvenor Square, London, Middlesex, England  (Age 82 years)
  Married	7 Feb. 1746/47	Whitehall Place, St. Margaret's, Westminster, Middlesex, England   [3]
  Last Modified	13 July 2019
  Family ID	F686	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Heraldry

  Arms of FitzGerald (Duke of Leinster)

  
  

• Sources

  [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 573. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 573. Citing Hist. MSS. Com., 10th Rep., part i, page 426. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VII, page 574.