Background
Born John FitzMaurice, Lord Shelburne was the second son of Thomas FitzMaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry, and Anne, daughter of Sir William Petty.
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Education
He was educated at Westminster School and was called to the Bar, Middle Temple, in 1727.
Career
He was the father of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of Great Britain. FitzMaurice was High Sheriff of Kerry in 1732. In 1743 he entered the Irish House of Commons as one of two representatives for County Kerry, a seat he held until 1751.
Later the same year he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Dunkeron and Viscount FitzMaurice.
Two years later the earldom of Shelburne was revived in his favour when he was made Earl of Shelburne, in the County of Wexford, in the Irish peerage. He was Governor of County Kerry in 1754 and the same year he was returned to the British House of Commons for Wycombe, a seat he held until 1760.
He was sworn of the Irish Privy Council in 1754 and in 1760 he was created Lord Wycombe, Baron of Chipping Wycombe, in the County of Buckingham, in the Peerage of Great Britain, which entitled him to a seat in the English House of Lords. William FitzMaurice, in 1734.
Their younger son the Honorary
Thomas FitzMaurice married Mary O"Brien, later suo jure Countess of Orkney. Lord Shelburne died in May 1761 and was buried in Bowood, Wiltshire. The Countess of Shelburne died in 1780.
Membership
11th Parliament of Great Britain.
