11 Facts About Richard FitzPatrick

General Richard FitzPatrick, styled The Honourable from birth, was an Anglo-Irish soldier, wit, poet, and Whig politician.

Richard FitzPatrick sat in the British House of Commons for 39 years from 1774 to 1813 and was a "sworn brother" of the statesman Charles James Fox.

Richard FitzPatrick served in the Philadelphia campaign during the American Revolutionary War.

Richard FitzPatrick had an elder brother, John FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory, and two sisters: Mary, who later married Charles James Fox's brother Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland, and Louisa, who became the second wife of Fox's Whig adversary William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne.

Richard FitzPatrick was colonel of the 47th Regiment of Foot from 1807 to his death.

Richard FitzPatrick would serve as a Member of Parliament for more than forty years.

Richard FitzPatrick's first work, published anonymously in 1768 was a parody on Thomas Gray's "Eton College Ode" entitled "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Almack's Assembly Rooms".

From 1773 to 1791, Richard Fitzpatrick lived at 19 Norfolk Street, off Park Lane in London.

Richard FitzPatrick appears to have had a taste for married women of the Whig persuasion.

Richard FitzPatrick suffered from gout and in the autumn of 1806 underwent an operation to remove a "carbuncle" on his breast.

Richard FitzPatrick did not have long to enjoy his windfall.