Early Years
FitzGerald spent most of his childhood in Frescati House at Blackrock in Dublin where he was tutored by William Ogilvie in a manner inspired by Rousseau's Emile. Edward was only 11 years of age when his father died. Through his mother, he was a great-great grandson of king Charles II of England.
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