FITZWILLIAM, WILLIAM, EARL
- FITZWILLIAM, WILLIAM, EARL
a politician of George the Third's time; the excesses of the French Revolution caused him to come over from the Whigs and support Pitt; favoured Catholic emancipation during his Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland, but was recalled; held office under Grenville in 1806, and took some part in the Reform Bill agitation of the day (1748-1833).
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James Wood.
1907.
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