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Robert Uniacke-Penrose-Fitzgerald
British Conservative politician

Robert Uniacke-Penrose-Fitzgerald

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British Conservative politician
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Robert Fitzgerald
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80 years
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Sir Robert Uniacke-Penrose-Fitzgerald, 1st Baronet of Corkbeg and Lisquinlan (10 July 1839 – 10 July 1919), was a British Conservative politician.
Fitzgerald was the son of Robert Uniacke Penrose (1800 – 11 June 1857) of Cork Beg Island, County Cork. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He rowed at Cambridge and won the University Pairs with J. P. Ingham in 1860. He rowed in the Cambridge boat in the Boat Race in 1861 and 1862 when Oxford won in both years. After university he travelled in India and Tibet from 1863 to 1867.
Fitzgerald was elected to the House of Commons for Cambridge in the 1885 general election, a seat he held until the 1906 election. In 1896 he adopted the name Uniacke-Penrose-Fitzgerald and was created a baronet, of Corkbeg and Lisquinlan in the County of Cork. He owned about 6,000 acres (2,428 ha) in County Cork and was Director of the Property Defence Association and Cork Defence Union against Land League. He was also President of the Council of the Yacht Racing Association.
Uniacke-Penrose-Fitzgerald died at Westminster on his eightieth birthday, when the baronetcy became extinct.
Fitzgerald married Jane Emily Codrington, daughter of General Sir William John Codrington, in 1867. They had no children. Lady Jane Uniacke-Penrose-Fitzgerald died in 1924.

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