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    • Source: William FitzMaurice (Buckinghamshire MP)

      • William Edward FitzMaurice (21 March 1805 – 18 June 1889) was a British Conservative Party politician.


      Background


      FitzMaurice was the son of John FitzMaurice, Viscount Kirkwall, (son of the Hon. Thomas FitzMaurice who was the younger son of John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne and younger brother of Prime Minister William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne) and his wife Mary FitzMaurice, 4th Countess of Orkney, daughter of Murrough O'Brien, 1st Marquess of Thomond and Mary O'Brien, 3rd Countess of Orkney. His mother was the Hon. Anna Maria, daughter of John Blaquiere, 1st Baron de Blaquiere, while Thomas FitzMaurice, 5th Earl of Orkney was his elder brother.


      Political career


      FitzMaurice was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckinghamshire at an unopposed by-election in July 1842. He held the seat until the 1847 general election, when he did not stand for re-election.


      Family


      FitzMaurice was twice married. He married firstly Hester, daughter of Henry Harford, in 1837. After her death in August 1859 he married secondly Anne Louisa, daughter of John Hatton, in 1870. He died in June 1889, aged 84.


      References




      External links


      Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by William FitzMaurice

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