ADAM'S THE LIBRARY COLLECTION 29th April 2025

101 www.adams.ie The Library Collection | 29 th April 2025 174 A VICTORIAN ROSEWOOD LIBRARY TABLE MID 19TH CENTURY, with shaped rectangular top and twin frieze drawers, deco - rated with scrollwork moulding, on turned trestle-end supports joined by stretcher, 74cm high, 135cm long, 68cm wide € 600 - 1,000 173 ENGLISH SCHOOL C.1835 Portrait of Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Lewis Fitzgerald in his Library Oil on canvas, 75 x 59cm Robert Lewis Fitzgerald (1776-1844) married Jane Welch at Melcombe Regis in August 1800. Fitzgerald was awarded a share in the compensation of the Hyde estate in St Thomas-in-the- Vale Jamaica in right of his wife Jane Fitzgerald (q.v.), one of the daughters of Richard Welch, the former Chief Justice of Jamaica. Fitzgerald was Knighted in 1835 and died in January 1844 at Bath aged 68, Vice Admiral of the Red. ‘This officer is descended from a younger branch of the very ancient and noble house of Leinster, in the kingdom of Ireland, and nearly related to the Earl of Kingston.’ Edin- burgh Gazette 4439 04/12/1835 p. 1. Five sons and four daughters survived of eleven children, including Maria Phillipa (1813-1845), Georgina Favell (1817-1841), Charlotte Mary (1819- 1823), James Lewis (1806-1835) and George Milner (1816-1843). € 800 - 1,200