John Fitzpatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory
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John Fitzpatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory (1719 - 23 September, 1758), lived in County Cork Ireland.
Decended from Barnaby Fitzpatrick 1st B. Upper Ossory, who took an oath of allegiance to King Henry VIII on October 8 1537. He was one of the first in Ireland to do so and as a reward, he was knighted on June 11 1541. He married Margaret Butler, daughter of Earl Butler the Lord Deputy of Ireland.
- Sir John Fitzpatrick gained the Earldom in 1714
- In 1878 his descendants are recorded as possessing no less than twenty-two thousand acres (89 km²) of the best land in Ossory
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