Fitzgerald
EDWARD, LORD, an Irish pat patriot; born near Dublin, Ireland, in 1763. He was a son of the first Duke of Leinster. He distinguished himself can Revolutionary War, and was severely wounded in the battle of Eutaw Springs. When the French Revolution broke out, can Revolutionary War, and was severely wounded in the battle of Eutaw Springs. he supported its principles, and in 1793 Philippe Joseph, the Duke of Orleans, hastened to Paris. Here he married and Madame de Genlis. On his return to Pamela, the daughter, it is said, of Louis Ireland, Fitzgerald was desirous of eftory to furnish him with a fleet and troops. A landing was attempted on sev- eral occasions, but without success, owing fecting a separation of that country from England, and induced the French Directroops. A landing was attempted on several occasions, but without success, owing to the vigilance of the English channel fleet; and Fitzgerald was seized, tried, and condemned to death. He died of his cated with the daughters of the Duke of wounds before the time fixed for his ex- ecution, 1798. His wife had been edu- Orleans, by Madame de Genlis, and married a second time, Mr. Pitcairn, the American consul at Hamburg.
American consul at Hamburg. lish poet; born in Bredfield House, near Fitzgerald, which was his wife's family Suffolk, England, March 31, 1809. His father, John Purcell, assumed the name Fit name.
His writings are for the most an" and part remodeled translations of poems in two more ("The Mighty Magician" other languages; among them are: "Six Dramas from Calderon" (1853), and two more ("The Mighty Magician" and "Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made of") won for Fitzgerald great celebrity; a Khayyam" (1859), a translation that version of the "Agamemnon" of Æschylus; and versions of other Greek and Persian poets. He died in Merton, Norfolk, England, June 14, 1883.