John Purcell Fitzgerald
From Graces Guide
John Purcell Fitzgerald (1775-1852) was a British Member of Parliament.
He had been born John Purcell(1775), and had assumed the name and arms of his wife's family in 1818. He then built Castle Irwell in as a northern family home.
In the late 1820s he commissioned Robert Stephenson (1788-1837), to commence coal-mining on his Lancashire estate, but fraud and flooding made the Pendleton Colliery venture unsuccessful and he was forced to file for bankruptcy.
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