LORD KILDARE'S MONUMENT, CHRIST CHURCH.- In the choir of Christ Church cathedral is placed the stately monument erected by his devoted Irish wife, the Lady Marie O'Brien, eldest daughter of Willaim O'Brien, Earl of Inchiquin, to the memory of Robert Fitz-Gerald, nineteenth Earl of Kildare in direct succession. He was the father of James, twentieth Earl and first Marquis of Kildare-subsequently first Duke of Leinster-the spirited and patriotic father of Lord Edward Fitz-Gerald, of 1798 celebrity.


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