Bernard Edward Barnaby FitzPatrick, 2nd Baron Castletown, KP, CMG, PC (I) (29 July 1848 – 29 May 1937) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Conservative Member of Parliament.

[3] He was appointed High Sheriff of Queen's County in 1876, and sat as Member of Parliament for Portarlington from 1880 to 1883, when he succeeded his father in the barony and entered the House of Lords.

[4] He was promoted major on 8 June 1896, and later lieutenant colonel in command of the 4th (Queen's County Militia) Battalion, Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) from October 1899, and was the first to outfit them with Irish bagpipers.

[5][6] In February 1900, he left for South Africa,[7] where he was posted on special service during the Second Boer War, as Acting Assistant Adjutant-General on the HQ staff.

[10] Along with Theodore Roosevelt and Douglas Hyde and others, he was elected honorary Vice President of the Irish Literary Society of New York in 1903.

[citation needed] Originally made up of representatives from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, and the Isle of Man; Cornwall was added in 1904.