Background
John FitzPatrick was born on 2 May 1745, the son of John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory, and Lady Evelyn (née Leveson-Gower. Daughter of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower).
John FitzPatrick was born on 2 May 1745, the son of John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory, and Lady Evelyn (née Leveson-Gower. Daughter of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower).
He had a younger brother Richard, who also became a noted statesman and soldier, and two younger sisters, Mary and Louisa. He succeeded to his father"s title of earl of Upper Ossory in 1758 but as this was a title in the Irish peerage it did not entitle him to a seat in the British House of Lords. In 1767 he was instead elected to the House of Commons for Bedfordshire, a seat he held until 1794.
He was also Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire from 1771 to 1818.
In 1794, he was given the title of "Baron Upper Ossory", of Ampthill in the County of Bedford, in the Peerage of Great Britain, which gave him a seat in the House of Lords. In 1763, Fitzpatrick was in Italy with the bibliophile, Topham Beauclerk.
Where he bought old-master paintings and commissioned paintings from Gavin Hamilton. On returning to Britain, Fitzpatrick embarked on an affair with Anne Fitzroy, wife of Prime Minister Augustus Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, (and daughter of Henry Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth).
John Fitzpatrick died in February 1818, aged 72, when his titles became extinct.
Royal Society; 12th Parliament of Great Britain. 13th Parliament of Great Britain. 14th Parliament of Great Britain.
15th Parliament of Great Britain.
16th Parliament of Great Britain. 17th Parliament of Great Britain.
18th Parliament of Great Britain.