[2] He graduated with a Bachelor of Law and served then as Judge of the Admiralty Court.
[3] In 1741, he entered the Irish House of Commons and sat for Dingle, the same constituency his older brother John had represented before, until his death.
[1] In 1779, he succeeded his nephew Maurice as Knight of Kerry.
[6] After the death of his second wife in 1759,[6] FitzGerald married lastly Catherine Sandes, daughter of Lancelot Sandes in 1770 and had by her two sons and a daughter.
[citation needed] FitzGerald died in 1781 and was succeeded in his title by his older son Maurice.