James fitzgibbon biography

          James FitzGibbon (16 November – 10 December ) was a public servant, prominent freemason of the masonic lodge from to (holding the highest position in Upper Canada of deputy provincial grand master), member of the Family Compact, and an Irish soldier in the British Army in Europe before and in the..

          FITZGIBBON, JAMES, soldier and public servant; b. 16 Nov. 1780 at Glin (County Limerick, Republic of Ireland); son of Garrett (Gerald) FitzGibbon and Mary Widenham; m. in 1814 Mary Haley, and they had four sons and a daughter who lived beyond infancy; d. 12 Dec.

          Lieutenant and hero of the War of , James FitzGibbon is best known for his actions as a guerrilla fighter who harassed the American forces.

        1. Lieutenant and hero of the War of , James FitzGibbon is best known for his actions as a guerrilla fighter who harassed the American forces.
        2. FitzGibbon was a prominent mason, and from to he held the highest office in Upper Canada as deputy provincial grand master (the provincial grand.
        3. James FitzGibbon (16 November – 10 December ) was a public servant, prominent freemason of the masonic lodge from to (holding the highest position in Upper Canada of deputy provincial grand master), member of the Family Compact, and an Irish soldier in the British Army in Europe before and in the.
        4. James FitzGibbon was a public servant, prominent freemason of the masonic lodge from to , member of the Family Compact, and an Irish soldier in the British Army in Europe before and in the.
        5. A Freemason, from to , he was deputy provincial grand master, the highest office in Upper Canada.

          6. 1863 at Windsor Castle, England.

          James FitzGibbon’s father, a farmer and weaver, had a small holding on the Knight of Glin’s estate in Ireland. James left school at age 11 and at 15 enlisted in the Knight of Glin’s Yeomanry Corps where he was soon promoted sergeant.

          In 1798 he joined the Tarbert Infantry Fencibles, an Irish home service regiment, from which he was recruited into the 49th Regiment of the British army. His battle initiation was at Egmond aan Zee, Holland, in 1799. He served as a marine in the battle of Copenhagen (1801), for which he received the Naval General Service Medal.

          In 1802, FitzGibbon landed in Quebec with the 49th Regiment; he remained in Canada for 45 year