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Desmond Wyndham Otho FitzGerald, 28th Knight of Glin (20 January 1901 – 2 April 1949) was an Anglo-Irish hereditary knight and socialite. Born in Croom, County Limerick, FitzGerald was the only son of Desmond FitzJohn Lloyd FitzGerald, 27th Knight of Glin, and Lady Rachel Charlotte Wyndham-Quin, daughter of Windham Wyndham-Quin ...
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 Fitzgerald, the youngest of three children, was born in 1937. His father, the 28th Knight of Glin (1901-49), was also called Desmond. His mother was English.
The Fitzgeralds came to Ireland from Wales in the 1170's as mercenaries, at the request of King Dermot MacMurrough to help him subdue his subjects. Three of the cadet branches of the Desmond lordship were known as the White Knight, the Knight of Glin and the Knight of Kerry.
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 ...
Descended himself from a long line of Norman-Irish rebels, Desmond FitzGerald, the present Knight's father was miserable in his marriage to Veronica. Veronica was known as 'the Knight's mare' and was notoriously arrogant and unpopular. She came to live at Glin after her marriage and lived with her husband and his aged father, with whom she ...
FitzGerald, Desmond John Villiers (1937–2011), Knight of Glin , scholar, conservationist, and fine arts dealer and collector, was born 13 July 1937 in Cambridge Square, London, the only son and youngest of three children of Desmond Wyndham Otho FitzGerald, Knight of Glin, of Glin Castle, Co. Limerick, and his wife Veronica, daughter of Ernest Vi...
