John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory
John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory lived in County Cork in Ireland.
He was the son of Richard FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Gowran, and Anne Robinson and educated at Queen's College, Oxford. He succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Gowran in 1727 and his mother to the estates of Farmingwoods, Northamptonshire and Ampthill, Bedfordshire in 1744. He was created Earl of Upper Ossory in the Irish peerage on 5 October 1751.
He was MP for Bedfordshire from 1753 to 1758.
He married Lady Evelyn Leveson-Gower, daughter of the 1st Earl Gower, on 29 June 1744. They had four children:
