monarch death_date birth_date term_end restingplace alma_mater death_place imagesize profession term_start image name caption predecessor birth_place alongside office successor religion article_title
george iii 28 january 1802 -lrb- aged 53 -rrb- 1749 28 january 1802 20 june 1789 1790 1783 st. peter 's churchyard trinity college 6 great britain and ireland ely place , dublin , united kingdom of 200px lawyer , politician 20 june 1789 29 nov 1783 1783 1778 1stearlofclare.jpg the earl of clare the 1st earl of clare . the christmas walter hussey-burgh richard hely-hutchinson viscount lifford the viscount avonmore john finlay william donnybrook , dublin , kingdom of ireland john armstrong walter hussey-burgh lord parliament for kilmallock member of parliament for dublin university chancellor of ireland attorney-general for ireland member of the arthur browne viscount kilwarden charles bury john armstrong lawrence parsons church of ireland john fitzgibbon , 1st earl of clare

john fitzgibbon , 1st earl of clare

john fitzgibbon , 1st earl of clare pc -lrb- ire -rrb- -lrb- c. 1749 -- 28 january 1802 -rrb- was attorney-general for ireland from 1783 to 1789 and lord chancellor of ireland from 1789 to 1802 .
he was a controversial figure in irish history , being described variously as a protestant hardliner , a staunch anti-roman catholic , and an early advocate of political union between ireland and great britain -lrb- which finally happened in 1801 , shortly before his death -rrb- .
he is said to have been an early opponent of measures for roman catholic political relief -lrb- meaning the removal of some or all of the various forfeitures , civil penalties , and civil disabilities placed upon catholics -rrb- in both ireland and great britain , and may have been the first to suggest to george iii that the king would violate his coronation oath if he consented to the admission of catholics to parliament .
