John FitzGerald, 15th Knight of Kerry

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John FitzGerald, 15th Knight of Kerry (1706 – 10 June 1741){{cite web | url = http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/irelandcommons.htm | title = Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800 | accessdate = 30 May 2009 | url-status = usurped | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090601105535/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/irelandcommons.htm | archive-date = 1 June 2009 }} was an Irish politician and hereditary knight.

He was the older son of Maurice FitzGerald, 14th Knight of Kerry, and his wife Elizabeth Crosbie, second daughter of David Crosbie.{{cite book | last = Burke | first = John | editor = John Bernhard Burke | title = Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry | publisher = Henry Colburn | location = London | volume = I | year = 1847 | pages = 416 }} His younger brother was Robert FitzGerald. In 1728, FitzGerald entered the Irish House of Commons and sat for Dingle until his death. One year later, he succeeded his father as Knight of Kerry.{{cite web | url = http://thepeerage.com/p35885.htm#i358847 | title = ThePeerage - John FitzGerald, 15th Knight of Kerry | accessdate = 31 May 2009 }}

On 12 April 1732, FitzGerald married Margaret Deane, youngest daughter of Joseph Deane, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, and by her, he had a daughter and a son. FitzGerald died at The Grove, Dingle in 1741 and was succeeded in his title by his only son Maurice.{{cite book | last = Foster | first = Joseph | title = The Royal Lineage of Our Noble and Gentle Families Together with Their Paternal Ancestry | url = https://archive.org/details/royallineageofou02fost | publisher = Hatchards | location = London | year = 1884 | pages = 43 }}

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Category:Irish knights

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Category:1706 births

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Category:Irish MPs 1727–1760

Category:Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kerry constituencies