Gerald FitzGerald, 5th Duke of Leinster

Gerald FitzGerald, 5th Duke of Leinster (16 August 1851 – 1 December 1893) was an Anglo-Irish peer.

Biography Leinster was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of the 4th Duke of Leinster and Lady Caroline Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, daughter of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland.

He married Lady Hermione Wilhelmina Duncombe (30 March 1864 – Menton, France, 19 March 1895), daughter of the 1st Earl of Feversham, in London on 17 January 1884. It was not a happy marriage. She died of tuberculosis at age 30.

The Leinsters had the following children: Unnamed daughter (born 1885 – died 5 February 1886) Maurice FitzGerald, 6th Duke of Leinster (1 March 1887 – 4 February 1922) Major Lord Desmond FitzGerald (21 September 1888 – 3 March 1916), killed in World War I — buried in France with the gravestone inscription: "FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH". Edward FitzGerald, 7th Duke of Leinster (6 May 1892 – 8 March 1976), whose alleged biological father was Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss.

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