Henry Vesey-FitzGerald, 3rd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey

Henry Vesey-FitzGerald, 3rd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey (19 December 1786 – 30 March 1860) was an Irish Dean in the middle of the 19th century.^[1]

Vesey-FitzGerald was born on 19 December 1786, the youngest son of James Fitzgerald and Catherine Vesey, created Baroness FitzGerald and Vesey in 1826.^[2] He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.^[2]

He held incumbencies at Castlerahan, County Cavan and then Ballintemple, Cork.^[3] He was Dean of Emly^[4] from 1818, until 1825 when he became Dean of Kilmore,^[5][6] a position he held until his death on 30 March 1860 at Danesfort, County Cavan.^[2][7] He succeeded to the barony of FitzGerald and Vesey in 1843 following the death of his brother; the title became extinct on his death.^[2]

References

1. Moody, T. W; Martin, F. X; Byrne, F. J; Cosgrove, A. (1976). A New History of Ireland. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-821745-5.
2. Kelly, James (January 2008). "Fitzgerald, James (1742–1835)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9566. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
3. Brady, William Maziere (1864). Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross. Dublin.
4. Cotton, Henry (1860). Fasti ecclesiæ hibernicæ: the succession of the prelates in Ireland. Dublin: Hodges & Smith.
5. "Ecclesiastical Intelligence". The Morning Post (16886) (London). 2 February 1825.
6. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 400–401. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
7. "Ireland. From our own correspondent". The Times (23585) (London). 4 April 1860. p. 11.