Maurice FitzGerald, 16th Knight of Kerry
Maurice FitzGerald, 16th Knight of Kerry( c. 1734 – 24 June 1779), known as" The Dingle Knight", was an Irish politician, barrister and hereditary knight.
He was the only surviving son of John FitzGerald, 15th Knight of Kerry and his wife Margaret Deane, daughter of Joseph Deane.
In 1741, he succeeded his father as Knight of Kerry.
FitzGerald was Judge of the Admiralty Court and in 1761, he entered the Irish House of Commons.
He sat for Dingle, the same constituency his father had represented before, until 1776.
On 10 June 1764, he married his cousin Lady Anne FitzMaurice, only daughter of William FitzMaurice, 2nd Earl of Kerry.
FitzGerald died childless and was succeeded in his title by his uncle Robert.
His nephew Richard Boyle Townsend became heir of his estates.
Adrian FitzGerald
Sir Adrian James Andrew Denis FitzGerald, 6th Baronet, 24th Knight of Kerry( born 24 June 1940) is a Conservative Party politician in the UK and former Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
He is the current" Green" Knight of Kerry, and thus has been the only holder of an active hereditary knighthood in Britain or Ireland since the 2011 death of his distant cousin Desmond FitzGerald, 29th Knight of Glin.
John FitzGerald, 15th Knight of Kerry
John FitzGerald, 15th Knight of Kerry (1706 – 10 June 1741) was an Irish politician and hereditary knight.
He was the older son of Maurice FitzGerald, 14th Knight of Kerry and his wife Elizabeth Crosbie, second daughter of David Crosbie.
His younger brother was Robert FitzGerald.
In 1728, FitzGerald entered the Irish House of Commons and sat for Dingle until his death.
One year later, he succeeded his father as Knight of Kerry.
On 12 April 1732, FitzGerald married Margaret Deane, youngest daughter of Joseph Deane, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, and by her he had a daughter and a son.
FitzGerald died at The Grove, Dingle in 1741 and was succeeded in his title by his only son Maurice.
Gilbert Talbot, 3rd Baron Talbot
Gilbert Talbot, 3rd Baron Talbot( c. 1332–1387) was an English nobleman and soldier.
He was the grandfather of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury.
Richard Townsend (politician)
Richard Townsend( c. 1731 – 12 December 1783) was an Irish politician.
He was the oldest son of Richard Townsend, son of Bryan Townsend, and his second wife Elizabeth Beecher, daughter of Henry Beecher and granddaughter of Thomas Beecher.
His younger brother was John Townsend.
Townsend served as colonel of the Cork Militia and was appointed High Sheriff of County Cork in 1753.
He entered the Irish House of Commons for Cork County in 1759 and represented the constituency until his death in 1783.
In 1776, he was also elected for Dingle, however chose not to sit.
In October 1752, he married Elizabeth FitzGerald, daughter of John FitzGerald, 15th Knight of Kerry.
They had a daughter and a son Richard Boyle Townsend.
John Westley
Rev. John Westley( 1636 – 78) was an English nonconformist minister.
He was the grandfather of John Wesley( founder of Methodism).
Richard Boyle Townsend
Richard Boyle Townsend( 1756 – 26 November 1826) was an Irish politician.
He was the only son of Richard Townsend and his wife Elizabeth FitzGerald, daughter of John FitzGerald, 15th Knight of Kerry.
His uncles were Maurice FitzGerald, 16th Knight of Kerry and John Townsend.
Townsend entered the Irish House of Commons in 1782 and sat for Dingle until he resigned his seat in 1795.
He was appointed High Sheriff of County Cork for 1785.
On 16 May 1784, he married Henrietta Newenham, daughter of John Newenham, and by her he had eight sons and a daughter.
William FitzMaurice, 2nd Earl of Kerry
William FitzMaurice, 2nd Earl of Kerry PC( Ire)( 1694 – 4 April 1747) was an Irish peer and an officer in the British Army.
He was the eldest son of Thomas Fitzmaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry and Anne Petty.
In 1738, he married Lady Gertrude Lambart, daughter of Richard Lambart, 4th Earl of Cavan, and had a son, Francis Thomas- Fitzmaurice, 3rd Earl of Kerry( 1740 – 1818), and a daughter Anna Maria, who married Maurice FitzGerald, 16th Knight of Kerry.
He was Governor of Ross Castle, a Colonel in the Coldstream Guards, a Privy Counsellor in Ireland and Custos Rotulorum of Kerry( 1746 – 1747).
The Earl of Kerry died in 1747 in Lixnaw.
Robert FitzGerald, 17th Knight of Kerry
Robert FitzGerald, 17th Knight of Kerry( 1717 – 5 December 1781) was an Irish politician, barrister and hereditary knight.
He was the second son of Maurice FitzGerald, 14th Knight of Kerry and his wife Elizabeth Crosbie, second daughter of David Crosbie.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Law and served then as Judge of the Admiralty Court.
In 1741, he entered the Irish House of Commons and sat for Dingle, the same constituency his older brother John had represented before, until his death.
In 1779, he succeeded his nephew Maurice as Knight of Kerry.
In March 1746, FitzGerald married firstly Lucy Leslie, daughter of John Leslie.
She died only four years later and he married secondly Catherine FitzGerald, second daughter of Thomas FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Glin in 1752.
After the death of his second wife in 1759, FitzGerald married lastly Catherine Sandes, daughter of Lancelot Sandes in 1770 and had by her two sons and a daughter.
FitzGerald died in 1781 and was succeeded in his title by his older son Maurice.
Maurice FitzGerald, 14th Knight of Kerry
Sir Maurice FitzGerald (d.1729), M.P., D.L., 14th Knight of Kerry
He was the eldest son of Sir John Fitzgerald, 13th Knight of Kerry and Honora O'Brien, daughter of Connor O'Brien, 2nd Viscount Clare.
He lived at Ballinruddery Castle, County Kerry and fought on the Catholic side during the Battle of the Boyne.
In 1703, he became the first in his family line to marry a Protestant.
His wife was Elizabeth Crosbie, daughter of David Crosbie (d.1717), of Ardfert Abbey, High Sheriff of Co. Kerry, by his wife jane, daughter of William Hamilton of Liscloony,
Co. Offaly.
Lady Fitzgerald was the sister of Maurice Crosbie (1689-1762), 1st Lord Brandon, who was the father of William Crosbie, 1st Earl of Glandore.
His marriage, and the subsequent marriages of his children further alienated the Knights of Kerry from the local Catholic populace.
Maurice became Deputy Lieutenant of Kerry.
He died at Ballinruddery Castle, 9 December 1729.
He and his wife were the parents of two sons and nine daughters.
Their eldest son, John became the 15th Knight of Kerry, and their youngest son, Robert, became the 17th Knight.
Their daughters married into the Herberts (twice), Merediths (twice), Sandes', Creaghs, Stacks, Hewsons, Collis', Rices and Days.

Question: Who is John Fitzgerald, 15Th Knight Of Kerry's paternal grandfather?
Answer: John FitzGerald, 13th Knight of Kerry