Lord Otho FitzGerald

• Honorific Prefix — The Right Honourable • Name — Lord Otho FitzGerald • Honorific Suffix — PC • Order1 — Comptroller of the Household • Term Start1 — 12 December 1868 • Term End1 — 17 February 1874 • Monarch1 — Victoria • Prime Minister1 — William Gladstone • Predecessor1 — Viscount Royston • Successor1 — Lord Henry Somerset • Office2 — Member of Parliament for Kildare • Alongside2 — William H. F. Cogan • Term Start2 — 1865 • Term End2 — 1874 • Predecessor2 — Richard More O'Ferrall William H. F. Cogan • Successor2 — Charles Henry Meldon William H. F. Cogan • Born — 10 October 1827 • Party — Liberal • Parents — Augustus FitzGerald, 3rd Duke of Leinster Lady Charlotte Augusta Stanhope

Although the family home of the Duke of Leinster was Carton House near Maynooth, County Kildare (Ireland), FitzGerald was born at Harrington House, Northamptonshire (England), the home of his mother. He was the third son of Augustus FitzGerald, 3rd Duke of Leinster, by his wife Lady Charlotte Augusta Stanhope. Charles FitzGerald, 4th Duke of Leinster, was his elder brother. Another brother, Gerald Fitzgerald (1821–1886) was, like Otho, an amateur composer, photographer and a noted artist. His sister, Lady Jane Seymour FitzGerald, was the wife of George Repton, an MP for St Albans and Warwick. was a British Conservative Party politician His paternal grandparents were William FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster and Emilia Olivia St George (a daughter of the 1st Baron St George). His maternal grandparents were General Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington and Jane Fleming (a daughter of Sir John Fleming, 1st Baronet), a lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen Charlotte.

Fitzgerald was an officer in the Royal Horse Guards and served as a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. He entered the House of Commons in 1865 as member for Kildare, a seat he held until 1874. In 1866 he was sworn of the Privy Council and made Treasurer of the Household under Lord Russell, a post he only held until the fall of the Liberal government in June of that year. He returned to office as Comptroller of the Household under William Gladstone in 1868, a post he retained until the government fell in 1874.

On 14 December 1861 Lord Otho married Ursula Lucy Grace, Lady Londesborough (Bridgeman), daughter of Vice Admiral Charles Orlando Bridgeman and widow of Lord Londesborough. This was regarded by his contemporaries as a fortune-hunting match. They had two children: • Gerald Otho FitzGerald (1862–1919), a Major in the King's Royal Rifle Corps who died unmarried and without issue. • Ina Blanche Georgie FitzGerald (1864–1910), who married Maj. Arthur Leopold Paget, a son of Col. Leopold Grimston Paget (a son of Hon. Berkeley Paget and grandson of the 1st Earl of Uxbridge), in 1885. Fitzgerald for a while owned Oakley Court on the Thames, at Bray in Berkshire. He died at Bray in November 1882, aged 55. Lady Otho FitzGerald only survived him by a year and died in November 1883. They are buried at St Andrew's Church, Clewer.