FITZROY, Sir Charles Augustus (only son of general Charles Fitzroy 1764–1829). b. 10 June 1796; attached to staff of Sir Hussey Vivian at Waterloo 1815; captain royal horse guards 27 April 1820 to 23 June 1825 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds, June 1831 to Dec. 1832; lieut. governor of Prince Edward Island 19 March 1837; governor of Leeward Islands 3 Aug. 1841; governor of New South Wales 3 Aug. 1846 to 17 Jany. 1855; his wife Lady Mary Fitzroy killed at Parramatta being thrown from her carriage 7 Dec. 1847; governor general of all the Australian colonies 1850; act for separation of Victoria passed 5 Aug. 1850; constitution act of N.S.W. passed 1853; presented with purse of 2000 guineas 28 Jany. 1856; knighted by Wm. iv. at St. James’s palace 1 June 1837; K.C.B. 12 June 1854. d. Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 16 Feb. 1858. W. Gisborne’s New Zealand Rulers (1886), 36–42; Rev. J. Buller’s Forty years in New Zealand (1878) 377–82; Therry’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1863) 376–80; Heads of the people i, 65 (1847), portrait; I.L.N. xxix, 479 (1856), portrait.
FITZROY, Henry (younger son of 2 Baron Southampton 1761–1810). b. Great Stanhope st. London 2 May 1807; ed. at Magd. coll. Ox. and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. Cam. 1828; M.P. Great Grimsby 10 Aug. 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; contested Lewes 1835, M.P. Lewes 21 April 1837 to death; a lord of the Admiralty 12 Feb. 1845 to 13 July 1846; lieut. col. of the Artillery company 1848 to death; under sec. of state for home department Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855; P.C. 8 Feb. 1855; chairman of committees of House of Commons 16 April 1855 to 1859; chief comr. of board of works 1859 to death. d. Sussex sq. Kemp Town, Brighton 22 Dec. 1859.
FITZROY, Robert (brother of Sir C. A. Fitzroy, 1796–1858). b. Ampton hall, Suffolk 5 July 1805; entered navy 19 Oct. 1819; captain 3 Dec. 1834; commander of Beagle on surveys of Straits of Magellan etc. 1828–30, 1831–36, when he ran a chronometric line round the world; F.R.G.S. 1830, gold medallist 1837; an elder brother of Trinity house 1839; M.P. Durham 1841–43; acting conservator of river Mersey 21 Sep. 1842 to 1843; governor of New Zealand 3 April 1843, superseded Nov. 1845 as he did not agree with the colonists; retired from active service 1850; R.A. 1857, V.A. on half pay 12 Sep. 1863; F.R.S. 5 June 1851; superintendent of Meteorological department of board of trade 1854; invented Fitzroy barometer; instituted a system of storm warnings 1862 which developed into the daily forecasts of the weather 1872; author of Narrative of voyages of Adventurer and Beagle and the Beagle’s circumnavigation of the globe 3 vols. 1839; Weather Book, a manual of practical meteorology 1863, 2 ed. 1863 and other works; committed suicide by cutting his throat, at his residence Lyndhurst house, Norwood, Surrey 29 April 1865. Proc. of Royal Soc. xv, 21–23 (1867); Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. ix, 215–8 (1865); Good Words vii, 406–13 (1866).
FITZROY, Sir William (3 son of 3 Duke of Grafton 1735–1811). b. 1 June 1782; entered navy 21 April 1794; captain 3 March 1804; admiral 2 April 1853; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 4 July 1840. d. East Sheen near Richmond 13 May 1857.
FITZWALTER, Sir Brook William Bridges, 1 Baron (elder son of Sir Brook Wm. Bridges, 4 bart. 1767–1829). b. Goodneston park, Kent 2 June 1801; ed. at Winchester and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1827; succeeded his father 21 April 1829; M.P. for East Kent, Feb. to July 1852 and April 1857 to April 1868; created Baron Fitzwalter 17 April 1868. d. Goodneston park 6 Dec. 1875. I.L.N. xxx, 478 (1857), portrait, lxvii, 614, 629 (1875), portrait.
FITZWILLIAM, Charles William Wentworth, 5 Earl (only child of 4 Earl Fitzwilliam 1748–1833). b. Grosvenor sq. London 4 May 1786; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for Yorkshire 20 May 1807 to 24 July 1830 as Viscount Milton; M.P. for Northamptonshire 23 May 1831 to March 1833; pres. of Yorkshire Philosophical Soc. 1830 to death; K.G. 4 Nov. 1851; took surname of Wentworth by r.l. 20 Aug. 1856; author of First, second and third addresses on the Corn laws 1839 and other books; edited with Sir Richard Bourke Correspondence of Edmund Burke 4 vols. 1844. d. Wentworth house, Rotherham 4 Oct. 1857. Waagen’s Treasures of art iii, 337–42 (1854).
FITZWILLIAM, Edward. b. near Holborn, London 8 Aug. 1788; actor at Southend, Hythe and Gosport 1806–8; first appeared in London as Hodge in Love in a village, at West London theatre 1812; acted at Olympic 1813 and at Royal Circus; his best parts were Leporello, Dumbiedykes in the Heart of Midlothian, Patch, Partridge in Tom Jones and Humphry Clinker; went to Drury Lane 10 Nov. 1821; became a comic vocalist at city entertainments; generally known as Little Fitz; retired on an annuity from Drury Lane theatrical fund 1845. d. Regent st. London 30 March 1852. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography ii, 267–76 (1825), portrait; Cumberland’s Minor Theatre, vol. 2, portrait.
FITZWILLIAM, Edward Francis (son of the preceding). b. Deal, Kent 2 Aug. 1824; composed a Stabat Mater performed at Hanover square rooms, London 15 March 1845; musical director of Lyceum theatre Oct. 1847 to 1849; musical director of Haymarket theatre Easter 1853 to death; composed The Queen of the day, a comic opera, A summer night’s love, an operetta; author of O Incomprehensible Creator, a cantata 1850; Dramatic songs for 4 voices 1856 and other works; his music to the songs As I laye a thynkynge 1846, The maid with the milking pail 1846, and The jug of Punch 1845 was very popular. d. 9 Grove place, Brompton, London 19 Jany. 1857. Era 25 Jany. 1857 p. 9, col. 3.
FITZWILLIAM, Ellen (eld. dau. of Thomas Acton Chaplin, d. Nov. 1859). First appeared in London at Adelphi as Wilhelm in Die Hexen am Rhein 7 Oct. 1841; member of Haymarket company under J. B. Buckstone 22 years; went to Australia 1877. (m. 31 Dec. 1853 Edward Francis Fitzwilliam 1824–57). d. Auckland, New Zealand 19 Oct. 1880 aged 58. Theatrical Times 18 Nov. 1848 p. 439, portrait.
FITZWILLIAM, Fanny Elizabeth (dau. of Robert Copeland, manager of Dover circuit). b. Dover theatre 1801; was on the stage at 3 years of age; as Norah in the Poor Soldier played at Dover theatre 1815; first appeared in London at Haymarket as Lucy in The Review 1817; went to the Olympic and the Surrey; first seen at Drury Lane as Fanny in Maid or Wife 5 Dec. 1821; commenced engagement at Adelphi 10 Oct. 1825, the original Kate Plowden in The Pilot 31 Oct. 1825 and Bella in The Wreck Ashore 21 Oct. 1830; manager of Sadler’s Wells 1832; gave a monologue The Widow Wiggins at Adelphi during Lent 1835; in 1837 was at Haymarket under B. Webster; went to America and made her debut at Park theatre, New York as Peggy in The Country Girl, Oct. 1839; played at Adelphi, London 1844 and afterwards at Haymarket; was good in Lady Teazle, country girls and Irish peasants. (m. 2 Dec. 1822 Edward Fitz William, actor 1788–1852). d. of cholera at Richmond lodge, Putney 11 Sep. 1854. Ireland’s Records of the New York stage i, 302–4 (1867); Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 3–5, 2 portraits; Actors by daylight i, 145–6 (1838), portrait; Theatrical Times ii, 73 (1847), portrait; Actors by gaslight (1838) 25, portrait.