John Fitzgibbon, 1st Earl of Clare
1 portrait by Charles Turner
© National Portrait Gallery, London
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John Fitzgibbon, 1st Earl of Clare
by Charles Turner, after John Hoppner
mezzotint, published 1802
14 in. x 10 in. (355 mm x 254 mm) plate size; 14 1/2 in. x 10 1/2 in. (369 mm x 266 mm) paper size
Reference Collection
NPG D1467
Sitterback to top
- John Fitzgibbon, 1st Earl of Clare (1749-1802), Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Sitter in 4 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- John Hoppner (1758-1810), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 217 portraits, Sitter in 13 portraits.
- Charles Turner (1773-1857), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 634 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.
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A Dublin lawyer, Fitzgibbon was made Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1789 and consistently used his influence to resist every proposal of reform or concession. He was Pro-Union and regularly spoke out against Catholic emancipation though he did show concern for the rural population in his stance against Anglo-Irish absentee landlords. He died a year after the Union was passed and his funeral procession was followed by an angry Dublin mob who threw dead cats on his coffin, witness to his considerable unpopularity.
Events of 1802back to top
Current affairs
After returning from Naples, Nelson tours England with the diplomat and antiquarian Sir William Hamilton and his wife Emma, with whom he was having an affair. With Nelson's status confirmed as a national hero, their reception outrivals that of the King.Extensive strikes in government shipyards led by John Gast.
Art and science
Francis Jeffrey, MP and arbiter of literary taste, co-founds the Edinburgh Review, the influential Whig quarterly which voiced strong criticism of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey.The Exchange, where stocks were traded, is rebuilt to cope with an increase in business during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
International
Peace of Amiens; Britain finally agrees to unpopular peace, leaving France the chief power in Europe and returning recent British colonial acquisitions.Napoleon is declared First Consul of the French Empire for life.
English flock to see the international war plunder now on display at the Louvre in Paris.
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