Born on December 28th, 1817, and at the time of his death was the eldest surviving son of William FitzPatrick, of Castle Dunow, Queen's County. He passed the preliminary examination of the Apothecaries' Hall of Ireland when he was 15 years old, and was then apprenticed to Mr Fraser, a well-known general practitioner of Limerick. He pursued his professional studies at the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, and qualified in London. On December 29th, 1840, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Madras Presidency, where he served in almost every station. He was promoted Surgeon on January 2nd, 1859, and Surgeon Major on December 29th, 1860. He retired on December 24th, 1862, and lived at Bath, where he was for a time Physician to the Eastern Dispensary. Later he moved to Lenham, Kent, where he died on July 1st, 1872. By his marriage in 1846 with Mary Ann Ulrica, only surviving daughter of Major-General Wharnell of the Madras Army, he had nine children, of whom eight, including four sons, were living at the time of his death.