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{{For|the Irish statesman|William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey}}<br />
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| honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]<br />
| name = Sir Seymour Vesey-FitzGerald<br />
| honorific_suffix = [[Order of the Star of India|GCSI]] [[Order of the Indian Empire|GCIE]] [[Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council|PC]]<br />
| image = William Vesey Fitzgerald.jpg<br />
| image_size = 200px<br />
| caption = Caricature by [[Leslie Ward|"Spy"]], 1874<br />
| order1 = [[List of Governors of Bombay|Governor of Bombay]]<br />
| term_start1 = 6 March 1867<br />
| term_end1 = 6 May 1872<br />
| monarch1 = [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Victoria]]<br />
| predecessor1 = [[Henry Bartle Frere|Sir Bartle Frere]]<br />
| successor1 = [[Philip Wodehouse (colonial administrator)|Sir Philip Wodehouse]]<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date text|1818|}}<br />
| birth_place = [[County Clare]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date text|28 June 1885|}}<br />
| death_place = [[Oxford]], [[Oxfordshire]]<br />
| party = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]<br />
| alma_mater = [[Christ Church, Oxford]] <br /> [[Oriel College, Oxford]]<br />
| spouse = Maria Seymour<br />
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'''Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey-FitzGerald''', [[Order of the Star of India|GCSI]], [[Order of the Indian Empire|GCIE]], [[Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council|PC]] (1818 – 28 June 1885), was an [[Anglo-Irish people|Anglo-Irish]] politician and colonial administrator. He served as [[Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]] between 1858 and 1859 and as [[List of Governors of Bombay|Governor of Bombay]] between 1867 and 1872.<br />
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==Background and education==<br />
FitzGerald was the illegitimate son of [[William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey|the 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey]]. He was educated at both [[Christ Church, Oxford]] and [[Oriel College, Oxford]], graduating with a degree in Classics in 1837.<br />
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==Political career==<br />
FitzGerald was elected member for [[Horsham (UK Parliament constituency)|Horsham]] in 1848, but was unseated on petition. In 1852 he was once again elected for Horsham and was able to hold the seat until 1865.<ref name="rayment">{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090810231410/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Hcommons4.htm leighrayment.com House of Commons: Horncastle to Hythe]}}</ref> He served under the [[Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby|Earl of Derby]] as [[Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]] between 1858 and 1859.<br />
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In 1866 he was appointed [[List of Governors of Bombay|Governor of Bombay]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=23187 |date=20 November 1866 |page=6157 }}</ref> admitted to the [[Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council|Privy Council]]<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=23203 |date=28 December 1866 |page=7171 }}</ref> and (17 August 1887) made a Knight Commander of the [[Order of the Star of India]],<ref>Great Britain. India Office {{google books|b2NPAAAAMAAJ|The India List and India Office List for 1905|page=145}}</ref> and Knight Grand Commander of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]].<br />
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On his return to Britain, he again represented Horsham in parliament from 1874 to 1875.<ref name="rayment"/> In 1875, he was appointed [[Chief Charity Commissioner for England and Wales|Chief Charity Commissioner]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=24271 |date=30 November 1875 |page=6048 }}</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
In 1840, Vesey-FitzGerald married Maria Tryphena Seymour (1821–1865), a daughter of Edward Seymour, and their children included William Gerald Seymour (1841–1910), Tryphena Elizabeth Seymour (born 1843), Edward Percy Seymour (1853–1924), who was the father of the naturalist and author [[Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald]], and Carlotta Edith Beatrix Seymour (1859–1939).<ref>Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, ''Burke's Irish Family Records'' (London: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976), p. 413</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Baron FitzGerald and Vesey]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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*''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]''<br />
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