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| name         = The Earl of Upper Ossory
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| office1      = [[Member of Parliament (UK)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Bedfordshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Bedfordshire]]
| term1        = 1753–1758
| birth_date   = {{birth date text|1719}}
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| death_date   = 23 September {{death year and age|1758|1719}}
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| education    = [[Queen's College, Oxford]]
| father       = [[Richard FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Gowran|Richard FitzPatrick]]
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| spouse       = {{marriage|Lady Evelyn Leveson-Gower|1744}}
| children     = [[John FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory|John]], [[Richard FitzPatrick|Richard]], [[Mary Fox, 2nd Baroness Holland|Mary]] and [[Louisa Petty, Marchioness of Lansdowne|Louisa]]
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'''John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory''' (1719 &ndash; 23 September 1758), styled '''Lord Gowran''' from 1727–51, was an [[Anglo-Irish]] nobleman and politician from [[County Cork, Ireland]].

==Biography==
Fitzpatrick was the son of [[Richard FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Gowran]], and Anne ({{nee}} Robinson) and was educated at [[Queen's College, Oxford]].<ref name="hop">{{HOP|1715|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/fitzpatrick-john-1719-58|title=FITZPATRICK, John, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory [I] (?1719-58), of Ampthill, Beds.}}</ref>

He succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Gowran in 1727 and his mother to the estates of Farmingwoods (now Fermyn Woods), Northamptonshire and [[Ampthill]], Bedfordshire in 1744. He was created Earl of Upper Ossory in the Irish peerage on 5 October 1751. He was MP for [[Bedfordshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Bedfordshire]] from 1753–8.<ref name="hop"/>

He married Lady Evelyn Leveson-Gower, daughter of the [[John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower|1st Earl Gower]], on 29 June 1744. They had four children:<ref name="extinct">{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Bernard |title=A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire |date=1866 |publisher=Harrison |page=210 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OpxfAAAAcAAJ&q=%22earls%20of%20upper%20ossory%22 |access-date=16 September 2024 |language=en}}</ref>

* [[John FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory|John FitzPatrick, Lord Gowran]], later 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory (1745&ndash;1818)
* [[Richard FitzPatrick|The Hon. Richard FitzPatrick]] (24 January 1748 &ndash; 25 April 1813)
* [[Mary Fox, 2nd Baroness Holland|The Lady Mary FitzPatrick]] (bef. 1751 &ndash; 6 October 1778), married the [[Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland|2nd Baron Holland]] and had issue.
* [[Louisa Petty, Marchioness of Lansdowne|The Lady Louisa FitzPatrick]] (1755 &ndash; 7 August 1789), married the [[William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne|2nd Earl of Shelburne]] (later the 1st Marquess of Lansdowne) and had issue including [[Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne]].

== References ==
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==External links==
*[https://www.fitzpatricksociety.com Fitzpatrick – Mac Giolla Phádraig Clan Society]

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