[2] In 1622, when George was eight years old, his father, Viscount Feilding, was created Earl of Denbigh in the Peerage of England by James I.
George was just one of a large number of English men made Irish peers in the period.
[3] The title Earl of Desmond was first awarded in 1329 to the Anglo-Irish FitzGerald family in the south-west of Ireland.
In 1582, in the Tudor conquest of Ireland, the 14th FitzGerald Earl of Desmond was stripped of his title and beheaded after he rebelled as a Catholic against the Protestant English Crown.
However the King ordered that the bulk of the huge Ormond estate should go to the 10th Earl's daughter, Elizabeth Butler, a Protestant.