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FITZWILLIAM, SIR WILLIAM (1526-1599)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 449 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FITZWILLIAM, See also:SIR See also:WILLIAM (1526-1599) , See also:lord See also:deputy of See also:Ireland, was the eldest son of Sir William Fitzwilliam (d. 1576) of See also:Milton, See also:Northamptonshire, where he was See also:born, and See also:grandson of another Sir William Fitzwilliam (d. 1534), See also:alderman and See also:sheriff of See also:London, who was also treasurer and See also:chamberlain to See also:Cardinal See also:Wolsey, and who See also:purchased Milton in 1506. On his See also:mother's See also:side Fitzwilliam was related to See also:John See also:Russell, 1st See also:earl of See also:Bedford, a circumstance to which he owed his introduction to See also:Edward VI. In 1559 he became See also:vice-treasurer of Ireland and a member of the Irish See also:House of See also:Commons; and between this date and 1J71 he was (during the absences of See also:Thomas Radclyffe, earl of See also:Sussex, and of his successor, Sir See also:Henry See also:Sidney) five times lord See also:justice of Ireland. In 1571 Fitzwilliam himself was appointed lord deputy, but like See also:Elizabeth's other servants he received little or no See also:money, and his See also:period of See also:government was marked by continuous penury and its attendant evils, inefficiency, See also:mutiny and See also:general lawlessness. Moreover, the deputy quarrelled with the lord See also:president of See also:Connaught, Sir Edward See also:Fitton (1527-1579), but he compelled the earl of See also:Desmond to submit in 1574. He disliked the expedition of See also:Walter Devereux, earl of See also:Essex; he had a further See also:quarrel with Fitton, and after a serious illness he was allowed to resign his See also:office. Returning to See also:England in 1575 he was See also:governor of See also:Fotheringhay See also:Castle at the See also:time of See also:Mary See also:Stuart's See also:execution. In i588 Fitzwilliam was again in Ireland as lord deputy, and although old and See also:ill he displayed See also:great activity in leading expeditions, and found time to quarrel with Sir See also:Richard See also:Bingham (1528-1599), the new president of Connaught. In 1594 he finally See also:left Ireland, and five years later he died at Milton. From Fitzwilliam, whose wife was See also:Anne, daughter of Sir William Sidney, were descended the barons and earls Fitzwilliam.

See R. Bagwell, Ireland under the Tudors, vol. ii. (1885).

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