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Richard Albert fitzRichard FitzGerald M.P, J.P Sheriff for Peace for Tipperary 1845-47 born Clonmel Co. Tipperary 6/7/1806 died 10/6/1847 Youghal/Tramore Co. Waterford, his properties were Rathkervan in the parish of Rathtronan, Garnavilla Co. Tipperary and Muckridge House Co. Cork. Richard went to Clongowes and then studied Law at TCD but never practiced. Richard Albert was the eldest son of Richard FitzGerald [who had been an attaché to Lord Robert Stephen in Lisbon, Portugal around 1795] and Catherine Nagle of Garnavilla [who had a poem 'Beautiful Kate of Garnavilla written about her by the poet Lysaght, she was the daughter of Richard,eldest son of James Nagle who was one of the people charged with treason at Clonmel 1767] Richard Albert married 17/7/1836 in Paris Amelia/Emilia Frizoni di Chelerina (28/10/1807-2/3/1895 Rennes France) the daughter of Daniel Frizoni di Celerina a banker of Lisbon and descended from an old Swiss Italian family from Engadine and Isabella Lecusson Verdier whose father a fascinating man who built factories on a modern system, helped start the College of Science in Lisbon, and ran a sort of underground railway for writer[mostly poet]who had incurred the anger of the Church and needed to get out of Portugal as well as being a translator of worth himself. Richard met Emilia/Amelia in 1836 at an Embassy entertainment given by Lord and Lady Granville. Their fathers had by this time renewed their Lisbon friendship. These FitzGerald were descended from Shawn FitzGerald of Osberstown the son of Thomas the 7th Earl of Kildare and his first wife some say mistress Dorothy O'More of Leix. Richard and Emilia had seven children all who grew up in France after their father died of Typhoid and their mother moved to France. Richard was educated in Clongowes, Carlow College, and Maynooth and finished his studies in TCD and Paris, studying law but never practicing, he was nominated deputy of the chamber of commons for the Co. Tipperary in 1845; he was a member of the repeal of the Union and was also a member of the Catholic Committee. He was part of a small group of Catholic deputies who entered the commons with Daniel O’Connell. He was a patriotic and charitable man. While helping with the poor during the famine of 1847 he contracted Typhus fever and died, his oldest child being only nine years of age at the time. In the By Election 1841-7 on the death of Otway Care 21/2/1845 Richard Albert FitzGerald repealer, was elected to the Commons. First elected for Tipperary in February 1845 without a contest In the family vault in Youghal there is the inscription Richard Albert M.P, J.P died 10th June 1847 aged 41 fell victim to the famine fever caught in the discharge of his duties as relief commissioner