Background
He was the eldest son of Thomas Fitzmaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry and Anne Petty.
He was the eldest son of Thomas Fitzmaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry and Anne Petty.
He was Governor of Ross Castle, a Colonel in the Coldstream Guards, a Privy Counsellor in Ireland and Custos Rotulorum of Kerry (1746–1747). The Earl of Kerry died in 1747 in Lixnaw.