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Fitzgibbon, John

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see Clare, John Fitzgibbon, 1st earl of.

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Clare, John Fitzgibbon, 1st earl Of - 1749–1802, Irish statesman. He was (1783–89) attorney general of Ireland and in 1789 became lord chancellor. A resolute upholder of the Protestant ascendancy in Ireland, he denounced the Cat...