FITZGERALD-DE ROS, WILLIAM LENNOX LASCELLES, 23RD BARON DE ROS, third son of Lord Henry Fitzgerald MP, and Charlotte, Baroness De Ros, only dau. of Hon. Robert Boyle-Walsingham MP (I); b. 1 Sep 1797; adm. Christmas 1809; KS 1811; said to have passed a night in the Abbey to confront Bradshaw’s ghost, which was supposed to haunt the chamber in the south-west tower and the triforium passage nearby (Stanley, Hist. Mem. of Westminster Abbey, 437, n. 3); elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1815, but went to Ch. Ch. Oxford, matr. 16 Dec 1815, Canoneer Student 1815-24; BA 1819; MA 1822; Cornet and Sub-Lieut., 1st Life Guards 29 Mar 1819; Lieut., 24 Aug 1821; Capt., 23 Oct 1824; Maj., 5 Jun 1827; Lieut. -Col., 8 Sep 1831; Col., 9 Nov 1846; Maj. -Gen., 20 Jun 1854; Lieut. -Gen., 12 Mar 1861; Gen., 10 Nov 1868; Col., 4th Hussars, from 6 Feb 1865; served as Quartermaster - Gen. in Crimean War; a Gentleman Usher Quarterly Waiter to William IV 21 Oct 1836; succeeded brother as 23rd Baron De Ros 29 Mar 1839; took Conservative whip in House of Lords; Captain, Yeomen of the Guard Feb- Dec 1852, Mar 1858 - Jun 1859; Privy Councillor 27 Feb 1852; Lieut. -Governor, Tower of London, from 13 Feb 1852; a Busby Trustee from 16 May 1865; m. 7 Jun 1824 Lady Georgiana Lennox, sister of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond (qv); d. 6 Jan 1874.