relic / Lord Edward Fitzgerald, 1797

Lock of hair of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, cropped at Leinster House, 1797. With text ‘Lord Edward Fitzgerald’s hair given to me by Minny Napier and her brother to whom they were left by my Aunt Lady Lucy Foley’. This refers to Edward Fitzgerald cropping his hair in the short French style. Part of a collection of personal items relating to Lord Edward Fitzgerald from the Campbell Family, descended from Lady Pamela Campbell, the daughter of Lord Edward and Lady Pamela Fitzgerald.;