Edward Macartney-Filgate
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Colonel EJPF (Edward Patrick John Fitzgerald) Macartney-Filgate (17 March 1865 – 10 June 1927) was the son of Townley Macartney-Filgate, Registrar General (Bombay Residency) of Lowtherstone, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin and Tryphena Seymour Fitzgerald.
He studied at Marlborough College from 1880 to 1882 and called to the Irish Bar in 1890.
In his military career, he was commissioned into the Royal Irish Rifles in 1887 and became Lt. Col., Commanding, 3rd Bn, Royal Irish Rifles in 1902. During World War I he was Officer Cmdg. 12 Bn, Lancashire Fusiliers (1914) serving in France and the Balkans.
After the war, he retired to Castleknock, Co. Dublin. He died in Gilbraltar in 1927.
He was a contemporary and friend of Caesar Litton Falkiner, and he spoke the unveiling of his memorial in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin on 22 October 1910.
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- Ferguson, Kenneth (ed) (2005). King's Inns Barristers 1868-2004. Dublin: Honorable Society of King's Inns. ISBN 0-9512443-2-9. 234
- (1936) Marlborough College register from 1843-1933 : with alphabetical index, 8th ed, Marlborough: Marlborough College.
- Anon (1910). "The late Mr Caesar Litton Falkiner". I.L.T. & S.J. xliv: 278.
