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Lot Essay
The Right Honourable Lord Otho Augustus Fitzgerald, M.P. (1827-1882), Courtier and Politician, was the son of Augustus Frederick Fitzgerald, 3rd Duke of Leinster. He began his career in the Royal Horse Guards, The Blues, and after nine years became Master of the Horse to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, being subsequently made Gentleman of the Bedchamber and Treasurer of Her Majesty's Household in 1886, until he finally became Comptroller. In 1861, he married Ursula Lucy Grace Bridgeman, Lady Londesborough (d.1883). During his career as a courtier, he also stood in the House of Commons as a Liberal M.P. for Kildare from 1865.
At last he aimed at the dignity of Comptroller, in which capacity he appears from time to time in the House of Commons as a bearer of a message from the Queen.... He takes, however, but a comparatively small share in public legislation and debate, and it is in the sacred circles of society that he is best known.... On the whole a fortunate man, well-considered at Court, and taking life and people with the good-temper that should always arise from success.
Vanity Fair, 'Statesmen', No. 150, 1873.
At last he aimed at the dignity of Comptroller, in which capacity he appears from time to time in the House of Commons as a bearer of a message from the Queen.... He takes, however, but a comparatively small share in public legislation and debate, and it is in the sacred circles of society that he is best known.... On the whole a fortunate man, well-considered at Court, and taking life and people with the good-temper that should always arise from success.
Vanity Fair, 'Statesmen', No. 150, 1873.