Adrian FitzGerald
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Sir Adrian James Andrew Denis FitzGerald, 6th Baronet of Valentia, 24th Knight of Kerry (born 24 June 1940) is a Conservative Party politician in the UK and former Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. He is the current "Green" Knight of Kerry, and thus has been the only holder of an active Irish hereditary knighthood since the 2011 death of his distant cousin Desmond FitzGerald, 29th Knight of Glin.{{cite news |title=Desmond FitzGerald |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8769414/Desmond-FitzGerald.html |accessdate=29 September 2018 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=16 September 2011}}{{cite news |last1=Byrne |first1=Luke |title='After 700 years, I'm the last of the Irish knights' - Independent.ie |url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/after-700-years-im-the-last-of-the-irish-knights-26772522.html |date=17 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929233245/https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/after-700-years-im-the-last-of-the-irish-knights-26772522.html |archive-date=29 September 2018 |accessdate=29 September 2018 |newspaper=Irish Independent |language=en}} The title has no official recognition in Ireland, which has been a republic since 18 April 1949 when the Republic of Ireland Act 1948 came into effect.
Family
Adrian FitzGerald is the eldest son and heir of Sir George FitzGerald M.C., 5th Baronet, 23rd Knight of Kerry, by his wife Angela (Lady FitzGerald), daughter of Captain James Rankin Mitchell, of Mayfair, Adrian was educated at Harrow School.Mosley, Charles, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 1999, Crans, Switzerland, {{ISBN|2-940085-02-1}}; p. 1064
Career
A founder-member (1962) of the Conservative Monday Club, he was firstly editor of their Newsletter, and from 1967–74 editor of their glossy magazine, Monday World.Copping, Robert, The Story of The Monday Club - The First Decade, London, April 1972, pp. 6, 14. He has served as an elected Councillor of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London from 1974 until his retirement in 2002,[https://archive.today/20070813065650/http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/committeedocuments/pages/Councillor.aspx?id=15 Councillor biography at RBKC] as Mayor (1984–85), and as Chairman of their Education and Libraries Committees from 1995. In 1989-90 he was Deputy Leader of the London Fire and Civil Defence Authority.Burke's (1999) p. 1064
Other interests
Sir Adrian has also served as Chairman of the Anglo-Polish Society for 1989–92, and is currently its president. He is vice chairman of the London chapter of the Irish Georgian Society and a patron of the Save Sloane Square campaign[http://savesloanesquare.co.uk/about_us/index.shtml#our_patrons Save Sloane Square] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070402130849/http://savesloanesquare.co.uk/about_us/index.shtml#our_patrons |date=2 April 2007 }} and the anti-euthanasia organisation Alert.[http://www.alertuk.org/whoswho Alert's Patrons] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071120100306/http://www.alertuk.org/whoswho |date=20 November 2007 }}
Sir Adrian is a Knight of Malta, and was President of the Irish Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM) resigning in May 2015. He divides his time between his homes in South Kensington, London, and Cappoquin, County Waterford, Ireland.
Ancestry
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|1= 1. Sir Adrian FitzGerald, 24th Knight of Kerry
|2= 2. Sir George FitzGerald, 23rd Knight of Kerry
|3= 3. Angela Mitchell
|4= 4. Sir Arthur FitzGerald, 22nd Knight of Kerry
|5= 5. Mary Forester
|6= 6. James Mitchell
|8= 8. Sir Maurice FitzGerald, 20th Knight of Kerry
|9= 9. Amélie Bischoffsheim
|10= 10. Francis Forester
|11= 11. Aline Milbank
|16= 16. Sir Peter FitzGerald, 19th Knight of Kerry
|17= 17. Julia Hussey
|18= 18. Henri Bischoffsheim
|19= 19. Clarissa Biedermann
|20= 20. William Forester
|21= 21. Hon. Eleanor Fraser
|22= 22. Sir Powlett Milbank, 2nd Baronet
|23= 23. Edith Green-Price
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References
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External links
- PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE of NORTHERN IRELAND. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927205140/http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/fitzger.htm The FitzGerald (Knights of Kerry) Papers (MIC/639 and T/3075)]
- [http://www.burkes-peerage.net/sites/peerage/sitepages/page66-knight.asp BURKE'S PEERAGE & GENTRY'S A TO Z GUIDE]
- [http://www.geni.com/people/Sir-Adrian-FitzGerald-6th-Baronet-FitzGerald-of-Valencia-24th-Knight-of-Kerry/6000000012117982284 Sir Adrian FitzGerald on Geni.com]
- [http://www.thepeerage.com/p5309.htm#i53082 The Peerage]
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