Anthony FitzClarence, 7th Earl of Munster

Anthony Charles FitzClarence, 7th Earl of Munster FRSA (21 March 1926 – 30 December 2000) was the last Earl of Munster, Viscount FitzClarence and Baron Tewkesbury. The Earl of Munster was the last of the senior male line of FitzClarences that began with King William IV (Duke of Clarence until his accession in 1830) and his mistress, the comic actress Dorothea Jordan (née Bland).

The King's eldest son by Mrs Jordan, George FitzClarence, was created Earl of Munster in 1831. He was granted arms at the same time, consisting of the royal arms of Great Britain surmounted by a baton sinister charged with roses, as a mark of bastardy. The seventh earl made his way in the world without trading on his lineage, working variously as a publican, a graphic designer on newspapers, and latterly as an expert on medieval stained glass.

In 1983, he inherited the earldom on the death of his father Edward FitzClarence, 6th Earl of Munster. From then until the Government's expulsion of the hereditary peers in 1999, as part of the House of Lords Act, he was a regular attender at the House of Lords. For a short time he sat on the cross benches, but soon moved to the Conservative side of the House. A shy man, he spoke rarely there, content to be one of those silent peers that made the Lords, as Byron thought, so formidable an audience.

Anthony Charles FitzClarence was born as the only son of Edward FitzClarence (1899–1983) and Monica Grayson (died 1958). He had a younger sister, Mary (1928–1971). His father succeeded as the 6th Earl of Munster in 1975 on the death of his second cousin, Geoffrey FitzClarence, the 5th Earl, formerly Paymaster-General in Neville Chamberlain's administration. Anthony's grandfather, Brigadier-General Charles FitzClarence, had won a VC serving with the Royal Fusiliers at Mafeking, and was married to Lady Violet Spencer-Churchill, which made Anthony's father a second cousin of Winston Churchill.

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