George Feilding, 1st Earl of Desmond

George Feilding, 1st Earl of Desmond (c. 1614 – 31 January 1665) was an Irish peer and the second son of William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh, and his wife, the former Susan Villiers.

Lord Desmond married Bridget Stanhope, who was the daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope and Elizabeth Read and a sister-in-law of George Berkeley, 8th Baron Berkeley.

The couple had several children:

• Lady Frances Feilding (died 1680), who married Sir Edward Gage, 1st Baronet, as his third wife
• Lady Mary Feilding (died 1691), who married Sir Charles Gawdy, 2nd Baronet
• Lady Bridget Feilding (died 1669), who married Arthur Parsons
• William Feilding, 2nd Earl of Desmond, later 3rd Earl of Denbigh
• Hon. George Feilding, who married a daughter of Sir John Lee
• Colonel Hon. Sir Charles Feilding (1641–1722),[1] who married Ursula Stockton, daughter of Sir Thomas Stockton and Ursula Bellot, and widow of Sir William Aston,[2] and had two daughters
• Rev. Hon. John Feilding (1641–1697), who married Bridget Cokayne and had children
• Hon. Basil Feilding (died May 1667), killed in a quarrel by his brother Christopher[3]
• Hon. Christopher Feilding, sentenced to death in July 1667 for killing his brother Basil in a drunken quarrel.[4]"No one pitied him" was the terse verdict of Samuel Pepys.[5]