Sir Adrian James Andrew Denis FitzGerald, 6th Baronet of Valentia, 24th Knight of Kerry (born 24 June 1940) is a Conservative Party politician in the UK and former Mayor of the

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. He is the current "Green"

Knight of Kerry Knight of Kerry (), also called The Green Knight, is one of three Hiberno-Norman Knight#Ireland, hereditary knighthoods, all of which existed in Ireland since feudal times. The other two were White Knight (Fitzgibbon family), The White Knight ( ...

, and thus has been the only holder of an active Irish hereditary knighthood since the 2011 death of his distant cousin

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. The title has no official recognition in Ireland, which has been a republic since 18 April 1949 when the

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came into effect.

Family

Adrian FitzGerald is the eldest son and heir of Sir George FitzGerald M.C., 5th Baronet, 23rd Knight of Kerry, by his wife Angela (Lady FitzGerald), daughter of Captain James Rankin Mitchell, of

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, Adrian was educated at

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Career

A founder-member (1962) of the

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, he was firstly editor of their ''Newsletter'', and from 1967–74 editor of their glossy magazine, ''Monday World''. He has served as an elected Councillor of the

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from 1974 until his retirement in 2002, as Mayor (1984–85), and as Chairman of their Education and Libraries Committees from 1995. In 1989-90 he was Deputy Leader of the London Fire and Civil Defence Authority.

Other interests

Sir Adrian has also served as Chairman of the Anglo-Polish Society for 1989–92, and is currently its president. He is vice chairman of the London chapter of the Irish Georgian Society and a patron of the ''Save

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campaign'' and the anti-

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organisation ''Alert''.Alert's Patrons
Sir Adrian is a Knight of Malta, and was President of the Irish Association of the

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(SMOM) resigning in May 2015. He divides his time between his homes in

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, London, and

Cappoquin Cappoquin (), also sometimes spelt Cappaquin, is a town in western County Waterford, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is on the Munster Blackwater, Blackwater river at the junction of the N72 road (Ireland), N72 national secondary road and the R ...

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, Ireland.

Ancestry

References

External links

* PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE of NORTHERN IRELAND
The FitzGerald (Knights of Kerry) Papers (MIC/639 and T/3075)

BURKE'S PEERAGE & GENTRY'S A TO Z GUIDESir Adrian FitzGerald on Geni.com
(Ireland) Irish knights

Adrian Adrian is a form of the Latin given name Adrianus or Hadrianus. Its ultimate origin is most likely via the former river Adria from the Venetic and Illyrian word ''adur'', meaning "sea" or "water". The Adria was until the 8th century BC the ma ...

1940 births Living people British people of Dutch-Jewish descent British people of German-Jewish descent Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Councillors in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Knights of Malta People educated at Harrow School Politicians from County Waterford Mayors of places in Greater London Place of birth missing (living people) {{England-mayor-stub