John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory

John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory, styled Lord Gowran from 1727–51, was an Anglo-Irish nobleman and politician from County Cork, Ireland.

Biography

Fitzpatrick was the son of Richard FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Gowran, and Anne and was educated at Queen's College, Oxford.
He succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Gowran in 1727 and his mother to the estates of Farmingwoods, Northamptonshire and Ampthill, Bedfordshire in 1744. He was created Earl of Upper Ossory in the Irish peerage on 5 October 1751. He was MP for Bedfordshire from 1753–8.
He married Lady Evelyn Leveson-Gower, daughter of the 1st Earl Gower, on 29 June 1744. They had four children:

John FitzPatrick, Lord Gowran, later 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory
The Hon. Richard FitzPatrick
The Lady Mary FitzPatrick, married the 2nd Baron Holland and had issue.
The Lady Louisa FitzPatrick, married the 2nd Earl of Shelburne and had issue including Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne.