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Desmond John Villiers FitzGerald, 29th Knight of Glin (13 July 1937 – 14 September 2011) was an Anglo-Irish hereditary knight, and author. He was the president of the Irish Georgian Society between 1991 and until his death in 2011.
Desmond John Villiers Fitzgerald, the 29th Knight of Glin, was a doughty and inspirational defender of Ireland's threatened architectural heritage. He was president of Ireland's...
The 29th and last Knight (dormant or extinct) was Desmond FitzGerald, son of Desmond Wyndham Otho FitzGerald, 28th Knight of Glin. He had a MFA degree from Harvard University . He was married, firstly in 1966, to Louise Vava Henriette Lucie Le Bailly de La Falaise , the daughter of Count Alain de la Falaise and his wife, the former ...
16 de sept. de 2011 · Fri Sep 16 2011 - 01:00. THE 29TH Knight of Glin, Desmond FitzGerald, the last heir to one of Ireland’s oldest hereditary titles, has died aged 74. Minister for Arts and Heritage Jimmy...
He became the 29th Knight of Glin (give or take) upon his father's death in 1949, inheriting an unprofitable 500-acre estate. The ramshackle castle's sale seemed inevitable until 1954, when his mother married Ray Milner, a Canadian millionaire willing to spend lavishly on its restoration and on installing modern plumbing and central heating.
So, after an early chapter which describes Desmond’s early life, there are chapters on Desmond as art historian, as conservationist and as connoisseur. There is a final chapter on Glin and on the part it played in the life of its 29th Knight.
16 de sept. de 2011 · Desmond FitzGerald, the 29th and last Knight of Glin who died on September 14 aged 74, was a connoisseur of the decorative arts who worked for the Victoria and Albert Museum and the...
