Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/FitzGibbon, John (1)

by Joseph Foster

FitzGibbon, John, of Christ Church, created M.A. 18 April, 1766 (Cat. Grads.). (This entry not found among the Acts of Convocation.) In Debrett's Peerage, 1849, John, 1st Earl of Clare, is assigned an elder brother John, who is said to have died unmarried, and among the list of Dublin graduates occurs John Gibbon, B.A. 1762, created LL.D. 1765, (See also Gent.'s Mag., 1802, lcxxii. part i; p. 219.) The recipient of the honorary degree of 1766, might have been John, father of the Earl of Clare.