Major Robert Louis Constantine Lee-Dillon FitzGibbon[1][2][3] (8 June
1919 - 25 March 1983) was an American-born Irish-British historian,
translator and novelist.[4]Constantine FitzGibbon was born in the
United States in 1919, the youngest of four children. 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. His
father, Commander Francis Lee-Dillon FitzGibbon, RN, was Irish, and
his mother, Georgette Folsom, was an American from Lenox,
Massachusetts.[5]The family were descended from John "Black Jack"
FitzGibbon, the 1st Earl of Clare,[6] who was Lord Chancellor of
Ireland and effected the Act of Union between Ireland and England in
1800, but in the following century the family faded into obscurity and
the title died out.
1919 - 25 March 1983) was an American-born Irish-British historian,
translator and novelist.[4]Constantine FitzGibbon was born in the
United States in 1919, the youngest of four children. 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. His
father, Commander Francis Lee-Dillon FitzGibbon, RN, was Irish, and
his mother, Georgette Folsom, was an American from Lenox,
Massachusetts.[5]The family were descended from John "Black Jack"
FitzGibbon, the 1st Earl of Clare,[6] who was Lord Chancellor of
Ireland and effected the Act of Union between Ireland and England in
1800, but in the following century the family faded into obscurity and
the title died out.
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