The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-26
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Desmond I'itzjohn Fitzgerald,

III ORD DU NR \ V Il Ms xon-in-lew .
ReJm9nd j. F,z Is F ,i,
through death. at the age Of
ninety five. an aged relative. who, a
purveyor Of cats and dogs meat in
the northeast end of London. has been
a source of no end OF trouble. and a
nuisance 10 him she was daughter
of Thomas Fitzgerald. NJ. D., q Gradu-
ate Of I rinily college, Dublin, and a
son OF John Fitzgerald Knight OF Glyn.
OF Glyn Castle. County Limerick. who
died in 1907.
in her girlhood a very foolish and in
discreet marriage. with man OF hum
bile birth. and OF no cdnca tinn. of the
name of Belts, who have always I'M
grooms. Her family cast her off, and
declined To have anything more TO do
with her. She settled in London with
her husband. and after becoming a
widow lost everything that ne had
LEFT. and her own savings. in the So
called Liberator crash. Thereupon. to
ma ke both ends meet. she went into
business as a purveyor OF cats meat
and dogs meat. and for years she was
u familiar figure III the north and ca 81
part Of London. going from door to
door with pushcart. shouting out the
In spite OF This she ALWAYS insisted
on her aristocratic birth being acknowl-
cd ged, and was accustomed TO resent
the FitZseralds, any undue famili-
arity. She could never be induced to
apply for an old age pension, or for
was recognized S the rightful Lady
of Glyn." Everything that she could
spare. She spent in dispatchns ennis
quiries. look up records. etc.
The present knight OF Glyn is a De
scendant OF her fathers younger broth
aaS but G aso the case
Glyn estates were strictly cntailed In
the male line. it is impossible TO un-
derstand how she ;couldd, have ever. hop
ed to secure either the property or
the ancient title of the family; all
the more as she had been cast off By
her own father, and disinherited In
She has left an elaborate viii. 1t
seems. disposing Of the Glyn Castle es-
ltates, one Of the clauses Of the Will
re 1Sr n iabss sonn x'eine1 lor
don. where she lived
The. Knight of Glyn is the. twenty
second member of this family in, a
scent, extending over 700 years, to
bear that honored and historic title.
Away back in 1858, John Fitzgerald,
virtue of his royal authority as Pala-
tire of ireland. created his younger
sons by his second marriage here
Whits K Kies the H knight Of q Glyn and
tie Knight Of Kerry. The White
Knight has no modern representatives,
Ills line having become extinct But
The lines Of the knight of Glyn and the
Knight Of Kerry have continued with
out q single break, from father to son,
through all these centuries.
The Knight of G1yn," as such. has
an official right to prefix "Sir" to his
Christian name, but refra ins from do
ing SO. lestSit should SAVIOR too much
of ordinary knighthood. He justly re-
allies that no modern title could add
prestige to the one which he holds.
and which has been borne by twenty
one ancestors before him, and which
is recognized by the government and
by the sovereign. his Official title being
"The Ancient Knight of Glyn" lie
married the daughter Of Lord Dun
raven. who as Lady Rachel Wyndham-
Quin, accompanied her ia Their to the
United States. at the time OF the
Valkyrie races for the America Cup
She died n few years ago, leaving him
with now ten year old son. and some.
other children.
The Knight OF Kerry is Sir Maurice
Fitzgerald, whose father accepted
haronetcy some thirty years ago from
Queen Victoria. rather to the disgust
of his son, who Infinitely prefers be-
ing known as the knight of Kerry
than us Sir Maurice FITZGERALD Bari