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Desmond Walter Guinness (8 September 1931 – 20 August 2020) was an Anglo-Irish author of Georgian art and architecture, a conservationist and the co-founder of the Irish Georgian Society. He was the second son of the author and brewer Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne , and his then wife Diana Mitford (later Lady Mosley).
Desmond was buried at St. Peter's Church, Drogheda, then afterwards removed to Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. Desmond's death shocked the nation: "slain by the swords of the wicked, or may I say a martyr" wrote one chronicler. [7] Some accounts claim that Tiptoft also murdered two of Desmond's young sons, who were attending school in Drogheda.
The execution of the 7th Earl of Desmond provoked an immediate and violent reaction. The dead earl’s elder sons ‘raised their standards and drew their swords, resolved to avenge their father’s murder’. James's younger brother, Gerald, laid waste a great deal in Leith and Munster in revenge for his father. [1]
James FitzGerald, 6th Earl of Desmond (d. 1462 ), [ 2 ] [ 3 ] called 'the Usurper', was a younger son of Gerald FitzGerald, 3rd Earl of Desmond , and Lady Eleanor, daughter of James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond .
John FitzThomas, 1st Baron Desmond (died 1261) was the son of Thomas Fitzmaurice, Lord OConnello by his wife Ellinor, daughter of Jordan de Marisco, and sister of Geoffrey de Marisco, who was appointed justiciar of Ireland in 1215.
Joan Fitzgerald, Countess of Ormond, Countess of Desmond (Irish: Siobhán Nic Gearailt) (died 1565), was an Irish noblewoman and heiress, a member of the Old English FitzGerald family, who were also known as the "Geraldines".
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George Feilding, 1st Earl of Desmond (c. 1614 – 31 January 1665) was an English nobleman, awarded the title of Earl of Desmond in the Peerage of Ireland by Charles I under the terms of a letter patent issued by James I. He was created Registrar of the Court of Admiralty, for life, in 1625. [1]