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Ulysses FitzMaurice

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152: 293:, a small leasehold estate in County Kerry and a personal estate valued at £3,456. In August 1776, a memorial to FitzMaurice was presented by the trustees of his estate. Aboan Fitzmaurice petitioned for the estate, against the advice of the 483: 190: 140: 35: 285:. FitzMaurice, who was illegitimate, died intestate as a bachelor with no apparent heirs. At the time of FitzMaurice's death, his estate consisted of Bowood, a 400 acre coffee 245:. On 15 April 1771, when new members for the Grenadian Assembly were needed, FitzMaurice appointed two Frenchmen. FitzMaurice, whose official title was " 174: 230: 294: 521: 242: 526: 458: 356: 290: 189:, and Fitzmaurice had four half-siblings: Aboan, James, Robert and John. On 2 December 1766, he began serving as the 237:
official. The report detailed FitzMaurice's attempts to prevent an outbreak of violence between the British and the
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Miscellaneous Correspondence: Memorials of the late Ulysses Fitzmaurice,... (T 1/527/205-208)
493: 198: 78: 151: 238: 234: 202: 139:— 21 Aug 1772) was an Anglo-Irish colonial administrator and planter who served as the 505: 186: 447:. T 1/503/37-38,67-71; T 1/504/103-104: The National Archives (UK). 2 October 1773. 182: 178: 201:, which had been occupied by British forces, when British Army officers Governor 286: 270: 250: 56: 262: 254: 225:. On June of the year, he returned to Saint Vincent and sent a report to 281:
FitzMaurice died on in 21 August 1772, and was succeeded as governor by
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Select Documents on the Constitutional History of the British Empire..
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and Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Gore were both absent from the region.
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in and over his Majesty's Southern Caribbean Islands of Grenada, the
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Law: P Crespigny: recommends acceptance of enclosed petitions..
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In 1769, he attempted to appease the French population of
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Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series, Vol 5-9
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Index

Lieutenant-Governor of Saint Vincent
George III
Valentine Morris
lieutenant-governor of Saint Vincent

William Leyborne Leyborne
England
William FitzMaurice, 2nd Earl of Kerry
British Army
County Kerry
German descent
lieutenant-governor of Saint Vincent
British West Indies
Windward Islands
Robert Melvill
Grenada
justices of the peace
six parishes
London
Earl of Hillsborough
Board of Trade
Garifuna people
32nd Regiment of Foot
Commander-in-Chief
Grenadines
Dominica
Tobago
Caraibes
free mulattoes
free negroes

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