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Author: Fitzpatrick, Patrick Vincent

Biography:

FITZPATRICK, Patrick Vincent (1792-1865: DIB)

He was born at 2 Ormond Quay, Dublin, to Hugh Fitzpatrick, printer and publisher, and his wife Jane. Educated at the Rev. James Keelan’s academy in Drogheda and St. Patrick’s College in Maynooth, he briefly attended Trinity College Dublin in about 1811-12 before the family fortunes collapsed when his father was successfully prosecuted and imprisoned for seditious libel in 1813. Although Hugh Fitzpatrick was released in 1814, his wife died in the same year and, in 1818, Hugh also died, possibly as a result of harsh treatment while in prison. Patrick Fitzpatrick continued his father’s business for a time before qualifying as a barrister in about 1820. He joined the Catholic Association and became increasingly engaged in politics, serving as financial manager and key advisor to Daniel O’Connell. In 1846 O’Connell, suffering from ill-health, secured for Fitzpatrick the post of assistant registrar of deeds in Dublin. Fitzpatrick died at his home at 29 Eccles Street and was buried in the O’Connell Circle of Glasnevin Cemetery where a handsome monument was erected by his sister, Honoria. Although, as the DIB states, he died unmarried, he lived with a widow, Catherine Josephina Eyre (d 28 Feb. 1873), who was sole executrix of his will. Possibly they had a son together, Vincent Eyre (1834-82). Both Catherine and Vincent are buried in the Fitzpatrick vault in Glasnevin. (DIB 17 Sept. 2021; ancestry.co.uk 17 Sept. 2021; Saunders’s Newsletter 29 Oct. 1818; Thom’s Almanac and Directory [1859]; findagrave.com 17 Sept. 2021)

 

Other Names:

  • P. V. Fitzpatrick
 

Books written (2):

London/ Dublin: Longman, Rees, Orme, and Co./ Richard Milliken and Son, 1828