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Fitzwilliam, William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 2d Earl

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Fitzwilliam, William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 2d Earl, 1748–1833, British administrator. Sent to Ireland as lord lieutenant in 1795, he expressed sympathy for the cause of Catholic Emancipation Catholic Emancipation, term applied to the process by which Roman Catholics in the British Isles were relieved in the late 18th and early 19th cent. of civil disabilities.
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 and was almost immediately recalled by William Pitt's ministry for allegedly exceeding his instructions.


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