- Alexis FitzGerald, Snr
Alexis FitzGerald (senior) (4 September 1916 – 16 June 1985) was an Irish solicitor and
Fine Gael party politician.He was elected in 1969 to the 12th Seanad Éireann on the Industrial and Commercial Panel, and re-elected in 1973 and 1977. He retired from politics at the 1981 Seanad election, and his nephew
Alexis FitzGerald, Jnr was elected to the15th Seanad , again by the Industrial and Commercial Panel.In 1947, FitzGerald was one of the founding partners of the Dublin solicitors' firm "McCann White & FitzGerald", now (as [http://www.mccannfitzgerald.ie/ McCann FitzGerald] ) one Ireland's largest law firms. He was the practice's senior partner until he died in 1985.
He also lectured in
economics atUniversity College Dublin and from 1981–1982 he was a special advisor toTaoiseach Garret FitzGerald (no relation).He is buried in
Glasnevin Cemetery .External links
* [http://www.mccannfitzgerald.ie/about_us_7.asp History of McCann FitzGerald Solicitors]
References
*Lynch, Patrick and James Meenan (editors) (1987). Essays in Memory of Alexis FitzGerald, Dublin: The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland. ISBN 0-902027-29-8
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