Henry FitzGerald-de Ros, 21st Baron de Ros
Henry William FitzGerald-de Ros, 21st Baron de Ros (12 June 1793 – 28/29 March 1839) was a British nobleman, the son of Lord Henry FitzGerald and his wife Charlotte FitzGerald-de Ros, 20th Baroness de Ros.
Fitzgerald-de Ros briefly served as Member of Parliament for the borough of West Looe from 1816 to 1818.
In 1831, upon the death of his mother, he inherited the Barony of de Ros, the oldest surviving barony in the Peerage of England.
He was an excellent whist player, but was involved in a gambling scandal in 1836.
Lord de Ros was accused of cheating at Graham's Club by the trick of "sauter la coupe", and by marking the cards with his thumbnail.
He sued his accusers for libel, but lost the case.
He died not long after, and was commemorated by Theodore Hook with the punning epitaph, "Here lies the premier baron of England, patiently awaiting the last trump."
He died in London, unmarried and without issue.
William FitzGerald-de Ros, 22nd Baron de Ros
William Lennox Lascelles FitzGerald-de Ros, 22nd Baron de Ros of Helmsley, PC, DL (1 September 1797 – 6 January 1874), was a British soldier and Conservative politician.
A general in the Army, he also held political office as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard in 1852 and between 1858 and 1859.
Dudley FitzGerald-de Ros, 23rd Baron de Ros
Dudley Charles FitzGerald-de Ros, 23rd Baron de Ros of Helmsley, (11 March 1827 – 29 April 1907) was a soldier, courtier and the premier Baron of England.
Everard de Ros
Everard de Ros( born 1145) was the lord of Hamlake.
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, 20th Baron de Ros, (30 January 1628 – 16 April 1687) was an English statesman and poet.
Mary Dawson, Countess of Dartrey
Mary Frances Dawson, Countess of Dartrey, 24th Baroness de Ros of Helmsley(" née FitzGerald- de Ros")( 31 July 1854 – 4 May 1939) was a British peer.
She was born in London.
Her parents were Dudley FitzGerald- de Ros and Lady Elizabeth Egerton.
Upon her father's death in 1907, Mary succeeded to the title.
The 24th Baroness married Anthony Dawson, 3rd Earl of Dartrey( 1855 – 1933) in London on 2 October 1878.
To them were born three daughters; the Barony of de Ros descended among their issue:
George Manners, 11th Baron Ros
George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros of Helmsley( c. 147027 October 1513) was an English peer.
Charlotte FitzGerald-de Ros, 20th Baroness de Ros
Charlotte Fitzgerald-de Ros, 20th Baroness de Ros of Helmsley (24 May 1769 – 9 January 1831), also known as Lady Henry FitzGerald, was born Charlotte Boyle-Walsingham in Castlemartyr, County Cork, Ireland or in London, where she died.
She was the daughter of the Hon.
Robert Boyle, later Boyle-Walsingham (1736–1780) and wife (m. 1759)
Charlotte Hanbury Williams (d. 1790), daughter of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams and Lady Frances Coningsby.
Her paternal grandparents were Henry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon and his second wife Lady Henrietta Boyle.
She spent most of her childhood with her parents at the Boyle Farm mansion in Thames Ditton.
(Her mother, the second daughter of Frances Coningsby, had bought this estate in 1784 from Lord Hertford, who was grieving over the death of his wife there two years earlier.)
Charlotte did much artistic decoration in Boyle Farm and much of it has survived to the present day.
In London on 3/4 August 1791, more than a year after her mother's death, Charlotte married Lord Henry FitzGerald, a member of the Duke of Leinster's family.
After petitioning King George III in 1790, she eventually (in 1806) was able to end the abeyance to the Barony of de Ros, the most ancient baronial title in England, in her favor.
This was accomplished despite her being determined only one of the three co-heirs to the barony with only a twenty-five percent interest whereas another claimant, Sir Henry Hunloke, Bt., had a fifty percent interest and was the heir general of the elder of the two sisters from whom the claims were derived.
No clear explanation for the award was given by the House of Lords except an inference that Charlotte came from (or at least had married into) a better family.
Charlotte legally changed her name by Royal Licence on 6 October of the same year to Charlotte FitzGerald-de Ros.
Members of the de Ros family lived in Thames Ditton for a long while.
They had links with the brightest of society, from the Duke of Wellington downwards.
Henry's younger brother was the notorious Lord Edward FitzGerald.
Charlotte died on 9 January 1831.
Christopher Hamilton
Colonel Christopher Hamilton( 1810–1860) was an Anglo- Irish politician and Commander- in- Chief of British Forces in British Ceylon.
Christopher Hamilton was born c. 1810 in County Dublin, Ireland, the son of Maj- Gen Christopher Hamilton, who commanded the British Forces in County Dublin and his wife Sarah née Handcock, daughter of Richard Handcock, 2nd Baron Castlemaine.
His father's family were traditionally Anglo- Irish and were well settled in the County Dublin area; his grandfather was Hans Hamilton.
After being educated at Eton College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he took up commission with the 1st The Royal Dragoons in Bombay but quickly impressed his superiors and was transferred to Ceylon, where he served under Edward Barnes, and eventually became Commander- in- Chief of the British Forces.
He left the army with the rank of colonel in 1840 and began a career in Irish politics, serving as Member of Parliament for Tipperary.
He married in 1830 The Hon.
Jane FitzGerald- de Ros, the youngest daughter of Lord Henry FitzGerald and Charlotte FitzGerald- de Ros, 21st Baroness de Ros; she did not accompany him to Ceylon, instead raising a family in England at 48 Belgrave Square and Linney House, Ludlow.
They had four children: Hamilton died on 5 January 1860.
His heart is buried in the transept of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin and his body at St Laurence Church, Ludlow.
Peter Maxwell, 27th Baron de Ros
Peter Trevor Maxwell, 27th Baron de Ros (born 23 December 1958) is the premier baron of England, by virtue of Baron de Ros being the oldest baronial title created in the Peerage of England.
He is the son of Lieutenant-Commander John David Maxwell, RN and of Lady de Ros, a "suo jure" peeress.
The 27th Baron was educated at Headfort School, in Kells, Ireland, as well as Down High School, in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland before going to a boarding school in the Republic of Ireland.
On 5 September 1987, the Lord de Ros married Angela Sián Ross, and they have three children:

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