Lord Edward FitzGerald

(1763-1798)

Irish nationalist

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Lord Edward FitzGerald (15 October 1763 – 4 June 1798) was an Irish aristocrat who abandoned his prospects as a distinguished veteran of British service in the American War of Independence, and as an Irish Parliamentarian, to embrace the cause of an independent Irish republic. Unable to reconcile with Ireland's Protestant Ascendancy or with the Kingdom's English-appointed administration, he sought inspiration in revolutionary France where, in 1792, he met and befriended Thomas Paine. From 1796 he became a leading proponent within the Society of United Irishmen of a French-assisted insurrection. On the eve of the intended uprising in May 1798 he was fatally wounded in the course of arrest.

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Born	15 October 1763 Carton House, County Kildare, Ireland
Died	4 June 1798 (aged 34) Newgate Prison, Dublin
Zodiac	Libra
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Lucy Anne FitzGerald · Sister · 1771-1851 · Irish radical; daughter of James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, and Lady Emily Lennox edit info

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