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Maurice FitzGerald, 6th Duke of Leinster, etc. (1 March 1887 – 4 February 1922), was the eldest son of The 5th Duke of Leinster and his wife, the former Lady Hermione Wilhelmina Duncombe, a daughter of The 1st Earl of Feversham. ==Biography== Born at Kilkea Castle and never married, he acceded to the dukedom and its related titles upon his father's death from typhoid fever in 1893, at age 42;〔Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower, ''Old Diaries: 1881-1901'' (G. Scribner's, 1902), page 205〕 his mother died of tuberculosis in 1895, at age 30. The Duke had three siblings: *A sister (born 1885 - died 5 February 1886) *Lord Desmond FitzGerald (1888-1916) *Edward FitzGerald, 7th Duke of Leinster (1892-1976), whose biological father was The 11th Earl of Wemyss.〔Angela Lambert, ''Unquiet Souls'' (Harper & Row, 1984), page 64〕 During his minority, his family's large estates in County Kildare were sold in November 1903 by his trustees to 506 tenant farmers via the Land Commission. Some of the lands had a title dating back to the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1171. The 45,000 acres sold for £766,000, a huge amount at the time, but this had to cover costs, some mortgages and £272,000 that was earmarked to family trusts for the surviving younger children of the 4th duke.〔Cosgrove PJ ''The sale of the Leinster Estate under the Wyndham Act, 1903''; Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society 2008-09, vol. XX, part 1, pp.9-26.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maurice FitzGerald, 6th Duke of Leinster」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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