Mary Ann's maternal uncle John FitzGibbon, first Earl of Clare
(1748-28 January 1802), a lawyer like his father, became Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1789. Earl of Clare from 1795, he acquired the English title...
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Henrietta Battier
HB
flaunts the animus of her firm, though female pen
Battier, Henrietta. The Gibbonade. 3 pt.
2: 27
against John, Baron Fitzgibbon (later Earl of Clare)
, who promoted Irish Union with England and opposed the rights of Catholics.
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10 July 1793: In the Irish House of Lords Lord Chancellor...
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10 July 1793
In the Irish House of Lords
Lord Chancellor Fitzgibbon
accused Wolfe Tone
(on the basis of a letter written two years previously) of favouring Irish separatism.
Tone, Theobald Wolfe. The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone, 1763-1798. Editors Moody, Theodore William et al., Clarendon, 1998, 2 vols.
