OBITUARY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2635, 18 October 1909, Page 5

OBITUARY.

LORD FITZGIBBON. United Press Association— Copyriohi (Received October 17, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, October 16. The death of ‘ Lord Fitzgibbon is announced. [The Right Hon. Gerald Fitzgibbon. was bom in Dublin on the 28th of August, 1837. He was the son of the late Gerald Fitzgibbon, Q.C., Master in Chancery in Ireland, and his mother was Ellen, daughter of John Patterson, of Belfast. In the year 1864 he married Margaret Anne, daughter of E. A. Fitz Gerald, late Baron of Exchequer, Ireland. The Hon. Gerald Fitzgibbon was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and in 1859 won the Berkeley gold medal (Greek), and a successful educational career secured him the honor of senior moderator and gold medal in classics, junior moderator and silver medal in English literature, history, law, and political economy, and silver medals for oratory and English composition in the Trinity College -Historical Society in 1861. In 1860 he was admitted to the Irish Bar, and the following year gained him admittance to the English Bar, Lincoln’s Inn. In 1872 he was appointed a Q.C., and in 1876 received the appointment of Law Adviser at. Dublin- Castle. The office of Solicitor-General for Ireland was offered to and accepted by him, in 1877, but he only held it for a year, when he received the appointment of Lord Justice of Appeal in Ireland. In 1877 he was appointed a Bencher at, the King’s Inn, and many years after, m 1901, was admitted as a . Bencher at Lincoln’s Inn. He was created a P.G. in 1879, received the LL.D. degree in 1895, and created, a G.B. in 1900. He has also occupied important positions in the educational and religious world, being Commissioner' of National Education of Ireland from 1884 to 1896, Judicial Commissioner of Educational Endowments of Ireland from 1885 to 1897, Chairman of the. Trinity College Dublin Estates Commission 1904-5, and Chancellor of the United Dioceses of Dublin, Glendalough, and Kildare, in. 1896,