Edmund Fitzalan-Howard, 1st Viscount Fitzalan of Derwent
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The Right Honourable The Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent KG GCVO DSO PC |
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| Lord Lieutenant of Ireland | |
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In office 27 April 1921 – 6 December 1922 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Prime Minister |
David Lloyd George Andrew Bonar Law |
| Preceded by | The Viscount French of Ypres |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
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| Born | 1 June 1855 |
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18 May 1947 (aged 91) Cumberland Lodge, Windsor |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Lady Mary Bertie (1859–1938) |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Edmund Bernard FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent KG GCVO DSO PC (1 June 1855 – 18 May 1947), known as Lord Edmund Talbot between 1876 and 1921, was a British Conservative politician and the last Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He was the first Roman Catholic to be appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland since the 17th century, holding office when the former Ireland was partitioned into Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland.
FitzAlan was the second son of Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk by his wife the Hon Augusta Lyons, daughter of Vice-Admiral Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, and the younger brother of Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk. Born Lord Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, he assumed in 1876 by Royal licence the surname of "Talbot" as part of an unsuccessful attempt to succeed to the estates of the Earl of Shrewsbury. He returned to the use of his paternal name by Royal Licence in 1921, shortly after being raised to the peerage.
Talbot was elected Member of Parliament for Chichester in 1894, a seat he held until 1921.
In 1899 he was appointed, by Redvers Buller, as the military censor of telegraph communications in Cape Town, South Africa, on the outbreak of the Boer War. He later served briefly under Arthur Balfour as a Lord of the Treasury in 1905 and under H. H. Asquith and later David Lloyd George as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from 1915 to 1921 (jointly from December 1916 onwards). In 1918 he was sworn of the Privy Council.
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