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[td]==Early life==[/td] [td]FitzGibbon was born in the United States in 1919, the youngest of four surviving children. His father, Commander Robert Francis Lee-Dillon FitzGibbon (1884β1954),<ref name="MM1976"/> [[Royal Navy|RN]], was Irish, and his mother, Georgette Folsom (1883β1972),<ref name="MM1976"/> daughter of George Winthrop Folsom, was an American heiress from [[Lenox, Massachusetts]].<ref name="obituary">Elizabeth Devine, ''Annual Obituary 1983''.St. James Press, 1984; {{ISBN|0-912289-07-4}} (pp. 155β56).</ref> Before his parents divorced in 1923,<ref>{{cite news |title=EX -- BRITISH OFFICER IS SUED FOR DIVORCE; Mrs. Georgette FitzGibbon, Who Shares in Folsom Estate, Charges Misconduct. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/02/21/...for-divorce-mrs-georgette-fitzgibbon-who.html |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=21 February 1923}}</ref> they had four surviving children, Frances Geraldine (wife of Harry Morton Colvile), Fannie Hastings, Georgette Winifred (wife of Claude Mounsey), and Constantine.<ref name="1923Divorce">{{cite news |title=MRS. FITZ GIBBON OBTAINS A DIVORCE; Decree Awarded to Wife of British Naval Officer, Son of a Former Lord Justice. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/07/29/...ivorce-decree-awarded-to-wife-of-british.html |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=29 July 1923}}</ref> From his father's later marriage to Kathleen Clare Aitchison, he was a half-brother of [[Louis FitzGibbon]], author of a number of works about the [[Katyn massacre]] of Polish officers in 1940, by Soviet troops.<ref name="LFObit2003">{{cite news |title=Louis Fitzgibbon |url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/louis-fitzgibbon-893z3b2559n |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The Times]] |date=5 February 2003 |language=en}}</ref> In 1927, his mother married her second cousin, Bertram Winthrop (a nephew of [[Egerton Leigh Winthrop]] and cousin to [[Bronson Winthrop]]).<ref name="1927Wedding">{{cite news |title=BERTRAM WINTHROP TAKES A BRIDE HERE; Paris Lawyer Marries Mrs. G. F. Fitz Gibbon in Chapel of Calvary Church. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1927/08/18/...-bride-here-paris-lawyer-marries-mrs-g-f.html |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=18 August 1927}}</ref><ref name="BWObit1940">{{cite news |title=BERTRAM WINTHROP; Paris Lawyer, a Descendant of Governor Winthrop, Dies at 55 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/11/10/...lawyer-a-descendant-of-governor-winthrop.html |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=10 November 1940}}</ref> They also divorced in 1931.<ref name="1931Divorce">{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Special Cable to THE NEW YORK |title=WINTHROPS ARE DIVORCED.; Former Mrs. Georgette Folsom Fitz Gibbon Gets Paris Decree. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1931/07/21/...er-mrs-georgette-folsom-fitz-gibbon-gets.html |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=21 July 1931}}</ref>[/td]
[td]FitzGibbon was born in the United States in 1919, the youngest of four surviving children. His father, Commander Robert Francis Lee-Dillon FitzGibbon (1884β1954),<ref name="MM1976"/> [[Royal Navy|RN]], was Irish, and his mother, Georgette Folsom (1883β1972),<ref name="MM1976"/> daughter of George Winthrop Folsom, was an American heiress from [[Lenox, Massachusetts]].<ref name="obituary">Elizabeth Devine, ''Annual Obituary 1983''.St. James Press, 1984; {{ISBN|0-912289-07-4}} (pp. 155β56).</ref> Before his parents divorced in 1923,<ref>{{cite news |title=EX -- BRITISH OFFICER IS SUED FOR DIVORCE; Mrs. Georgette FitzGibbon, Who Shares in Folsom Estate, Charges Misconduct. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/02/21/...for-divorce-mrs-georgette-fitzgibbon-who.html |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=21 February 1923}}</ref> they had four surviving children, Frances Geraldine (wife of Harry Morton Colvile), Fannie Hastings, Georgette Winifred (wife of Claude Mounsey), and Constantine.<ref name="1923Divorce">{{cite news |title=MRS. FITZ GIBBON OBTAINS A DIVORCE; Decree Awarded to Wife of British Naval Officer, Son of a Former Lord Justice. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/07/29/...ivorce-decree-awarded-to-wife-of-british.html |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=29 July 1923}}</ref> From his father's later marriage to Kathleen Clare Aitchison, he was a half-brother of [[Louis FitzGibbon]], author of a number of works about the [[Katyn massacre]] of Polish officers in 1940, by Soviet troops.<ref name="LFObit2003">{{cite news |title=Louis Fitzgibbon |url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/louis-fitzgibbon-893z3b2559n |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The Times]] |date=5 February 2003 |language=en}}</ref> In 1927, his mother married her second cousin, Bertram Winthrop (a nephew of [[Egerton Leigh Winthrop]] and cousin to [[Bronson Winthrop]]).<ref name="1927Wedding">{{cite news |title=BERTRAM WINTHROP TAKES A BRIDE HERE; Paris Lawyer Marries Mrs. G. F. Fitz Gibbon in Chapel of Calvary Church. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1927/08/18/...-bride-here-paris-lawyer-marries-mrs-g-f.html |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=18 August 1927}}</ref><ref name="BWObit1940">{{cite news |title=BERTRAM WINTHROP; Paris Lawyer, a Descendant of Governor Winthrop, Dies at 55 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/11/10/...lawyer-a-descendant-of-governor-winthrop.html |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=10 November 1940}}</ref> They also divorced in 1931.<ref name="1931Divorce">{{cite news |title=WINTHROPS ARE DIVORCED.; Former Mrs. Georgette Folsom Fitz Gibbon Gets Paris Decree. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1931/07/21/...er-mrs-georgette-folsom-fitz-gibbon-gets.html |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=21 July 1931}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]The family were descended from [[John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare|John "Black Jack" FitzGibbon, the 1st Earl of Clare]],<ref>John FitzGibbon, Earl of Clare: Protestant Reaction and English Authority in Late Eighteenth-century Ireland, Ann C. Kavanaugh, Irish Academic Press, 1997, p. 6</ref> who was [[Lord Chancellor of Ireland]] and effected the [[Acts of Union 1800|Act of Union]] between Ireland and England in 1800, but in the following century the family faded into obscurity and the title died out. Constantine FitzGibbon's grandmother, Louisa, was daughter of [[Richard FitzGibbon, 3rd Earl of Clare|Richard Hobart FitzGibbon]], the third and last Earl; her husband, Capt. Gerald Normanby Dillon (sixth son of [[Henry Dillon, 13th Viscount Dillon]]), changed his name to FitzGibbon so the name could continue.<ref name="MM1976">Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. ''[http://www.limerickcity.ie/media/fitzgfam008.pdf Burke's Irish Family Records]''. pp. 430β432. London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976.</ref> His maternal great-grandfather was [[George Folsom]], the [[United States Ambassador to the Netherlands|U.S. ChargΓ© d'affaires to the Netherlands]] from 1850 to 1853.<ref name="MWFObit1925">{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Special to The New York |title=INSANE 56 YEARS; LEAVES $2,000,000; Margaret Winthrop Folsom, Once New York Society Girl, Dies in Asylum Near Boston. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1925/09/17/...000000-margaret-winthrop-folsom-once-new.html |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=17 September 1925}}</ref>[/td]
[td]The family were descended from [[John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare|John "Black Jack" FitzGibbon, the 1st Earl of Clare]],<ref>John FitzGibbon, Earl of Clare: Protestant Reaction and English Authority in Late Eighteenth-century Ireland, Ann C. Kavanaugh, Irish Academic Press, 1997, p. 6</ref> who was [[Lord Chancellor of Ireland]] and effected the [[Acts of Union 1800|Act of Union]] between Ireland and England in 1800, but in the following century the family faded into obscurity and the title died out. Constantine FitzGibbon's grandmother, Louisa, was daughter of [[Richard FitzGibbon, 3rd Earl of Clare|Richard Hobart FitzGibbon]], the third and last Earl; her husband, Capt. Gerald Normanby Dillon (sixth son of [[Henry Dillon, 13th Viscount Dillon]]), changed his name to FitzGibbon so the name could continue.<ref name="MM1976">Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. ''[http://www.limerickcity.ie/media/fitzgfam008.pdf Burke's Irish Family Records]''. pp. 430β432. London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976.</ref> His maternal great-grandfather was [[George Folsom]], the [[United States Ambassador to the Netherlands|U.S. ChargΓ© d'affaires to the Netherlands]] from 1850 to 1853.<ref name="MWFObit1925">{{cite news |title=INSANE 56 YEARS; LEAVES $2,000,000; Margaret Winthrop Folsom, Once New York Society Girl, Dies in Asylum Near Boston. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1925/09/17/...000000-margaret-winthrop-folsom-once-new.html |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=17 September 1925}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]He was brought up in the United States and France before moving to England with his mother, his parents having divorced when he was very young.<ref name="sfgateway">{{cite web |title=Constantine Fitzgibbon |url=https://www.sfgateway.com/contributor/constantine-fitzgibbon/ |website=sfgateway.com |publisher=SF Gateway |access-date=2 February 2022 |date=12 July 2018}}</ref>[/td]
[td]He was brought up in the United States and France before moving to England with his mother, his parents having divorced when he was very young.<ref name="sfgateway">{{cite web |title=Constantine Fitzgibbon |url=https://www.sfgateway.com/contributor/constantine-fitzgibbon/ |website=sfgateway.com |publisher=SF Gateway |access-date=2 February 2022 |date=12 July 2018}}</ref>[/td]
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[td]==Early life==[/td] [td]FitzGibbon was born in the United States in 1919, the youngest of four surviving children. His father, Commander Robert Francis Lee-Dillon FitzGibbon (1884β1954),<ref name="MM1976"/> [[Royal Navy|RN]], was Irish, and his mother, Georgette Folsom (1883β1972),<ref name="MM1976"/> daughter of George Winthrop Folsom, was an American heiress from [[Lenox, Massachusetts]].<ref name="obituary">Elizabeth Devine, ''Annual Obituary 1983''.St. James Press, 1984; {{ISBN|0-912289-07-4}} (pp. 155β56).</ref> Before his parents divorced in 1923,<ref>{{cite news |title=EX -- BRITISH OFFICER IS SUED FOR DIVORCE; Mrs. Georgette FitzGibbon, Who Shares in Folsom Estate, Charges Misconduct. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/02/21/...for-divorce-mrs-georgette-fitzgibbon-who.html |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=21 February 1923}}</ref> they had four surviving children, Frances Geraldine (wife of Harry Morton Colvile), Fannie Hastings, Georgette Winifred (wife of Claude Mounsey), and Constantine.<ref name="1923Divorce">{{cite news |title=MRS. FITZ GIBBON OBTAINS A DIVORCE; Decree Awarded to Wife of British Naval Officer, Son of a Former Lord Justice. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/07/29/...ivorce-decree-awarded-to-wife-of-british.html |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=29 July 1923}}</ref> From his father's later marriage to Kathleen Clare Aitchison, he was a half-brother of [[Louis FitzGibbon]], author of a number of works about the [[Katyn massacre]] of Polish officers in 1940, by Soviet troops.<ref name="LFObit2003">{{cite news |title=Louis Fitzgibbon |url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/louis-fitzgibbon-893z3b2559n |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The Times]] |date=5 February 2003 |language=en}}</ref> In 1927, his mother married her second cousin, Bertram Winthrop (a nephew of [[Egerton Leigh Winthrop]] and cousin to [[Bronson Winthrop]]).<ref name="1927Wedding">{{cite news |title=BERTRAM WINTHROP TAKES A BRIDE HERE; Paris Lawyer Marries Mrs. G. F. Fitz Gibbon in Chapel of Calvary Church. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1927/08/18/...-bride-here-paris-lawyer-marries-mrs-g-f.html |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=18 August 1927}}</ref><ref name="BWObit1940">{{cite news |title=BERTRAM WINTHROP; Paris Lawyer, a Descendant of Governor Winthrop, Dies at 55 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/11/10/...lawyer-a-descendant-of-governor-winthrop.html |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=10 November 1940}}</ref> They also divorced in 1931.<ref name="1931Divorce">{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Special Cable to THE NEW YORK |title=WINTHROPS ARE DIVORCED.; Former Mrs. Georgette Folsom Fitz Gibbon Gets Paris Decree. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1931/07/21/...er-mrs-georgette-folsom-fitz-gibbon-gets.html |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=21 July 1931}}</ref>[/td]
[td]FitzGibbon was born in the United States in 1919, the youngest of four surviving children. His father, Commander Robert Francis Lee-Dillon FitzGibbon (1884β1954),<ref name="MM1976"/> [[Royal Navy|RN]], was Irish, and his mother, Georgette Folsom (1883β1972),<ref name="MM1976"/> daughter of George Winthrop Folsom, was an American heiress from [[Lenox, Massachusetts]].<ref name="obituary">Elizabeth Devine, ''Annual Obituary 1983''.St. James Press, 1984; {{ISBN|0-912289-07-4}} (pp. 155β56).</ref> Before his parents divorced in 1923,<ref>{{cite news |title=EX -- BRITISH OFFICER IS SUED FOR DIVORCE; Mrs. Georgette FitzGibbon, Who Shares in Folsom Estate, Charges Misconduct. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/02/21/...for-divorce-mrs-georgette-fitzgibbon-who.html |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=21 February 1923}}</ref> they had four surviving children, Frances Geraldine (wife of Harry Morton Colvile), Fannie Hastings, Georgette Winifred (wife of Claude Mounsey), and Constantine.<ref name="1923Divorce">{{cite news |title=MRS. FITZ GIBBON OBTAINS A DIVORCE; Decree Awarded to Wife of British Naval Officer, Son of a Former Lord Justice. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/07/29/...ivorce-decree-awarded-to-wife-of-british.html |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=29 July 1923}}</ref> From his father's later marriage to Kathleen Clare Aitchison, he was a half-brother of [[Louis FitzGibbon]], author of a number of works about the [[Katyn massacre]] of Polish officers in 1940, by Soviet troops.<ref name="LFObit2003">{{cite news |title=Louis Fitzgibbon |url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/louis-fitzgibbon-893z3b2559n |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The Times]] |date=5 February 2003 |language=en}}</ref> In 1927, his mother married her second cousin, Bertram Winthrop (a nephew of [[Egerton Leigh Winthrop]] and cousin to [[Bronson Winthrop]]).<ref name="1927Wedding">{{cite news |title=BERTRAM WINTHROP TAKES A BRIDE HERE; Paris Lawyer Marries Mrs. G. F. Fitz Gibbon in Chapel of Calvary Church. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1927/08/18/...-bride-here-paris-lawyer-marries-mrs-g-f.html |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=18 August 1927}}</ref><ref name="BWObit1940">{{cite news |title=BERTRAM WINTHROP; Paris Lawyer, a Descendant of Governor Winthrop, Dies at 55 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/11/10/...lawyer-a-descendant-of-governor-winthrop.html |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=10 November 1940}}</ref> They also divorced in 1931.<ref name="1931Divorce">{{cite news |title=WINTHROPS ARE DIVORCED.; Former Mrs. Georgette Folsom Fitz Gibbon Gets Paris Decree. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1931/07/21/...er-mrs-georgette-folsom-fitz-gibbon-gets.html |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=21 July 1931}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]The family were descended from [[John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare|John "Black Jack" FitzGibbon, the 1st Earl of Clare]],<ref>John FitzGibbon, Earl of Clare: Protestant Reaction and English Authority in Late Eighteenth-century Ireland, Ann C. Kavanaugh, Irish Academic Press, 1997, p. 6</ref> who was [[Lord Chancellor of Ireland]] and effected the [[Acts of Union 1800|Act of Union]] between Ireland and England in 1800, but in the following century the family faded into obscurity and the title died out. Constantine FitzGibbon's grandmother, Louisa, was daughter of [[Richard FitzGibbon, 3rd Earl of Clare|Richard Hobart FitzGibbon]], the third and last Earl; her husband, Capt. Gerald Normanby Dillon (sixth son of [[Henry Dillon, 13th Viscount Dillon]]), changed his name to FitzGibbon so the name could continue.<ref name="MM1976">Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. ''[http://www.limerickcity.ie/media/fitzgfam008.pdf Burke's Irish Family Records]''. pp. 430β432. London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976.</ref> His maternal great-grandfather was [[George Folsom]], the [[United States Ambassador to the Netherlands|U.S. ChargΓ© d'affaires to the Netherlands]] from 1850 to 1853.<ref name="MWFObit1925">{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Special to The New York |title=INSANE 56 YEARS; LEAVES $2,000,000; Margaret Winthrop Folsom, Once New York Society Girl, Dies in Asylum Near Boston. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1925/09/17/...000000-margaret-winthrop-folsom-once-new.html |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=17 September 1925}}</ref>[/td]
[td]The family were descended from [[John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare|John "Black Jack" FitzGibbon, the 1st Earl of Clare]],<ref>John FitzGibbon, Earl of Clare: Protestant Reaction and English Authority in Late Eighteenth-century Ireland, Ann C. Kavanaugh, Irish Academic Press, 1997, p. 6</ref> who was [[Lord Chancellor of Ireland]] and effected the [[Acts of Union 1800|Act of Union]] between Ireland and England in 1800, but in the following century the family faded into obscurity and the title died out. Constantine FitzGibbon's grandmother, Louisa, was daughter of [[Richard FitzGibbon, 3rd Earl of Clare|Richard Hobart FitzGibbon]], the third and last Earl; her husband, Capt. Gerald Normanby Dillon (sixth son of [[Henry Dillon, 13th Viscount Dillon]]), changed his name to FitzGibbon so the name could continue.<ref name="MM1976">Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. ''[http://www.limerickcity.ie/media/fitzgfam008.pdf Burke's Irish Family Records]''. pp. 430β432. London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976.</ref> His maternal great-grandfather was [[George Folsom]], the [[United States Ambassador to the Netherlands|U.S. ChargΓ© d'affaires to the Netherlands]] from 1850 to 1853.<ref name="MWFObit1925">{{cite news |title=INSANE 56 YEARS; LEAVES $2,000,000; Margaret Winthrop Folsom, Once New York Society Girl, Dies in Asylum Near Boston. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1925/09/17/...000000-margaret-winthrop-folsom-once-new.html |access-date=2 February 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=17 September 1925}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]He was brought up in the United States and France before moving to England with his mother, his parents having divorced when he was very young.<ref name="sfgateway">{{cite web |title=Constantine Fitzgibbon |url=https://www.sfgateway.com/contributor/constantine-fitzgibbon/ |website=sfgateway.com |publisher=SF Gateway |access-date=2 February 2022 |date=12 July 2018}}</ref>[/td]
[td]He was brought up in the United States and France before moving to England with his mother, his parents having divorced when he was very young.<ref name="sfgateway">{{cite web |title=Constantine Fitzgibbon |url=https://www.sfgateway.com/contributor/constantine-fitzgibbon/ |website=sfgateway.com |publisher=SF Gateway |access-date=2 February 2022 |date=12 July 2018}}</ref>[/td]
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