Page:Biographia Hibernica volume 2.djvu/141

 FITZPATRICK. 137 Arthur Lord Grey, observes “the moste sufficient, moste faithful men that ever I found there, were the Baron of Upper Ossory, Sir Lucas Dillon, and Sir Nicholas Malbie,. these for principale men, both for councell and action; and who ever most faithfullie and diligentlie discharged that which I committed to them, and trulie they be men of greate sufficiency.” His lordship died in Dublin, on September 11, 1581. RICHARD FITZPATRICK, CREATED Lord Gowran, was the son of John Fitzpatrick, Esq. of Castletown. Having entered into the sea service, he was, on the 14th of May, 1687, appointed commander of the Richmond. In 1689, in the Lark, he had great success in cruising against the French privateers, which greatly annoyed our commerce, particularly in the German ocean. On the 11th of January, 1690, he was promoted to the St. Albans; and on the 18th of July, he had the good fortune to fall in with a large frigate of thirty-six guns, off the Ram Head. The enemy, in addition to their com plement of two hundred men, had fifty fusileers on board, which encouraged them to make a stout resistance for four hours, in which time they lost forty men, killed and wounded; the St. Albans was so dexterously managed as to lose only four men. In the month of February, 1691, he drove on shore two French frigates, and in con junction with some other vessels, took fourteen rich mer chantmen out of a convoy of twenty-two. He was actively engaged some years after; and in 1695 we find him commanding the Burford, of seventy guns, under the orders of Sir Cloudesly Shovel. He was de tached, with several other vessels under his command, to attack the Grouais, one of the islands called Cardinals, and considerable damage was done to i t , 1800 head o f cattle and horses, with boats and small vessels, being brought off. The mortification this affair gave the ene my was o f more consequence than the actual mischief.