Waterloo officer

This period is full of fascinating characters!

I don’t know about Verdun, but I believe his will was made in Paris?

Thanks Ron. Sounds like he had a long captivity, presumably at Verdun.

He was the 4th and only surviving son, so that because he died without issue that branch of the the Fitzgeralds went extinct with him. The family married into the Mahon’s, so you might find a pedigree that includes him in their papers.

Maiden name of his wife was Georgina Isabella D'Aguilar (1761-1821) married in Middlesex on 16 Feb 1797. This is consistent with Richard’s memorial tablet in St Marylebone Church as well as at Waterloo (see Wellington’s Men Remembered Volume 1)

She was the daughter of Baron Ephrain López Pereira D’Aguilar and Sarah Mendez de Custa. She is recorded as the widow of Vice Admiral The Hon Keith Stewart of Glasserton (1739-1795). With whom she already had 4 sons.

Dalton relates that she brought out a coffin, determined to repatriate Richard’s body. However, it proved too short, so he was re-interred!

There is a portrait of her referenced on Stewart’s Wikipedia page and an engraving of Richard in the National Army Museum collection.