Lieutenant-General James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, PC, styled Lord Offaly until 1743 and known as The Earl of Kildare between 1743 and 1761 and as The Marquess of Kildare between 1761 and 1766
Portrait by Joshua Reynolds, 1753
Emily Fitzgerald, Duchess of Leinster, known before 1747 as Lady Emily Lennox, from 1747 to 1761 as The Countess of Kildare and from 1761 to 1766 as The Marchioness of Kildare, was the second of the f
James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster
…he was made Duke of Leinster, becoming by this time the Premier Duke, Marquess and Earl in the Peerage of Ireland. Leinster married the 15-year-old Lady Emily Lennox (6 October 1731 – London, 27 March 1814), daughter of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond and one of the famous Lennox Sisters, in London on 7 February…
Emily, Countess of Kildare by Allan Ramsay (1713-1784). Oil on canvas, painted 1765.
The Duchess of Leinster painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds in the 1770s.