Gerald FitzGerald, 5th Duke of Leinster

Gerald FitzGerald, 5th Duke of Leinster was an Anglo-Irish peer.

Biography

Leinster was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of the 4th Duke of Leinster and Lady Caroline Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, daughter of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland.
He married Lady Hermione Wilhelmina Duncombe, daughter of the 1st Earl of Feversham, in London on 17 January 1884. It was not a happy marriage. She died of tuberculosis at age 30.
The Leinsters had the following children:

Unnamed daughter
Maurice FitzGerald, 6th Duke of Leinster
Major Lord Desmond FitzGerald, killed in World War I - buried in France with the gravestone inscription: "FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH".
Edward FitzGerald, 7th Duke of Leinster, whose alleged biological father was Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss.

After the 5th Duke's death of typhoid fever, his stamp collection, which contained around ten thousand pieces, was bequeathed to the Dublin Museum of Science and Art. It included an Inverted Swan which he had discovered was inverted years after he took possession of it.