ADAM'S THE LIBRARY COLLECTION 29th April 2025

80 132 A 19TH CENTURY HANDWRITTEN LETTER PATENT GRANTING PEERAGE BY THE GARTER PRINCIPAL KING OF ARMS, Sir Albert William Woods to create the hon- orable John Wilson Fitzpatrick of Grant - stown Manor and Lisduff, a peer of the United Kingdom & Ireland titled Baron Cas- tletown of Upper Ossory, Queen’s County. Dated 22nd December 1869, signed, with gilt metal seal pendant, with fitted black leather case (damaged). 63.5 x 52.5cm; the case 56.5 x 6cm Sir Albert William Woods (1816 - 1904) was an English Officer of Arms. He served as Garter Principal from 1869 - 1904. Woods was responsible for the compilation of the important unpublished ordinary of arms (a systematic register of coats of arms) known as “Garter’s Ordinaries”. He began work on it in 1842 and continued until his death in 1904. John Fitzpatrick (1809 - 1883) was an An - glo-Irish Liberal politician. He was the ille- gitimate son of John Fitzpatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory and Elizabeth Wilson. Wilson, who in 1842 assumed the surname of FitzPatrick by Royal Licence, was appoint - ed High Sheriff of Queen’s County in 1836. He was then elected to the House of Com- mons for Queen’s County in 1837, a seat he represented until 1841, and again from 1847 to 1852 and from 1865 to 1869. He was admitted to the Irish Privy Council in 1848. In 1869, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Castletown, of Upper Ossory, reviv- ing an ancient title that had belonged to the Fitzpatrick’s around 1500. Apart from his parliamentary career he was also Lord Lieutenant of Queen’s County from 1855 to 1883. He was succeeded by his only son Bernard who died without heirs in 1937 and the bar- ony became extinct. € 800 - 1,200