Anthony FitzClarence, 7th Earl of Munster Anthony FitzClarence, 7th Earl of Munster Anthony Charles FitzClarence, 7th Earl of Munster, (21 March 1926 – 30 December 2000) was the last Earl of Munster, Viscount FitzClarence and Baron Tewkesbury. The Earl of Munster was the last of the male line of FitzClarences that began with King William IV (Duke of Clarence until his accession in 1830) and his mistress, the comic actress Dorothea Jordan (née Bland). The King's eldest son by Jordan, George FitzClarence, was created Earl of Munster in 1831. He was granted arms at the same time, consisting of the royal arms of Great Britain surmounted
Dorothea Jordan co. Kerry, 1695/961760), Vicar General of Ardfert and Aghada, and Judge of the Prerogative Court of Dublin, Ireland, and his second wife Lucy (née Heaton). The reports about Dorothea's maternal ancestry are very sketchy, although it is generally stated that Grace Phillips was probably the daughter of a Welsh clergyman (who lived in the early 1750s in Bristol) but he has not been identified with certainty. Before April 1774, when she was 13, Dorothea's father, who worked as a stagehand, abandoned the family to marry an Irish actress. However, he continued to support the family by sending them meagre sums