FITZGEORGE 



battle of Ypres, in which his 

 leadership helped to stem the 

 German onrush towards the Chan- 

 nel ports. On Oct. 31, the most 

 critical day, he was killed in 

 action. See Ypres, First Battle of. 

 Fitzgeorge. Name taken by the 

 three sons of the duke of Cambridge 

 and his morganatic wife, Miss 

 Louisa Fairbrother, the actress, 

 whom he married in 1840. One of 

 them, Sir Adolphus Augustus Fred- 

 erick Fitzgeorge (b. 1846), entered 

 the navy and retired with the rank 

 of rear-admiral. In 1904 he was 

 knighted. Another, Sir Augustus 

 Charles Frederiek Fitzgeorge (b. 

 1847), entered the Rifle Brigade in 

 1865 and later served in the llth 

 Hussars. He retired as a colonel 

 and was knighted in 1904. 



Fitzgerald, LORD EDWARD (1763 

 -98). Irish rebel. Son of the 1st 

 duke of Leinster, he joined the 

 English army, 

 served in Ire- 

 land, and in 

 1781 was 

 wounded at 

 the battle of 

 Eutaw Springs 

 in America. He 

 was elected to 

 the Irish par- 

 liament as 

 member for 

 Athy, after- 

 wards tra- 

 velled in America, and in 1792 

 was cashiered for attending a 

 revolutionary banquet in Paris. 

 He joined the United Irishmen in 

 1796 and took an active part in the 

 plans for the French invasion. The 

 plot was discovered, and Fitzgerald 

 died in prison, June 4, 1798, from 

 wounds inflicted by one of his cap- 

 tors. His wife Pamela was generally, 

 but wrongly, believed to be a 

 daughter of Madame de Genlis by 

 Philippe Egalite, duke of Orleans. 

 She, who was probably born in 

 Newfoundland, married Fitzgerald 

 in 1792 and lived until Nov., 1831. 

 Fitzgerald, EDWARD (1809- 

 83). English poet and translator. 

 He was born March 31, 1809, at 

 Bredfield House, near Woodbridge, 

 Suffolk, the son 

 of John Pur- 

 cell, who as- 

 sumed his 

 father-in -law's 

 name, Fitzger- 

 ald, nine years 

 after the poet's 

 birth. Spend- 

 ina his boy- 

 hood 

 ^- abroad, 

 he was 



sent, in 1821, to a school in Bury St. 

 Edmunds, entering Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, five years later. He 



After 0. Humphry, R.A. 



)J i 



became intimate with Thackeray 

 and Spedding; later with Tenny- 

 son and Carlyle. On leaving the 

 university, he spent a short time 

 in France, but, returning to Suffolk 

 in 1831, never left it again, for 

 more than a week or two, till his 

 death, June 14, 1883. 



His life was that of a recluse 

 spent among books, flowers, and 

 music ; he began the study of 

 Spanish in 1850, that of Persian in 

 1853. The world-famous transla- 

 tion of The Rubaiyat of Omar 

 Khayyam, preceded in 1856 by an 

 anonymous version of the Sala- 

 man and Absal of Jami in Miltonic 

 verse, was first published in Jan., 

 1859 ; but lay for months neg- 

 lected, even by the translator's 

 own friends, until Rossetti dis- 

 covered it in the f ourpenny box of 

 a second - hand bookseller, and 

 Swinburne proclaimed its genius 

 to the world. A second, greatly re- 

 vised, edition appeared in 1868, 

 and its subsequent popularity has 

 been phenomenal. Fitzgerald also 

 published Euphranor, a Platonic 

 Dialogue, 1851 ; Six Dramas of 

 Calderon, 1853 ; a version of the 

 Agamemnon, 1876 ; two Oedipus 

 Tragedies, 1880-81 ; and Readings 

 in Crabbe, 1882. The dedication of 

 Tennyson's Tiresius to " Old Fitz " 

 advanced Fitzgerald's personal re- 

 putation, but it was not till W. Aldis 

 Wright brought out, in 1889, his 

 Letters and Literary Remains, and, 

 in 1895, his Letters to Fanny 

 Kemble, that the world knew 

 much of the man whose work it had 

 long since taken to its heart. 



He married, in middle life, Lucy, 

 daughter of Bernard Barton, the 

 Quaker poet, and the interest of his 

 later years was centred in the sea, 

 " knocking about somewhere out- 

 side of Lowestoft," as he puts it 

 himself. He was a witty, pic- 

 turesque, and sympathetic letter- 

 writer, on terms of intimacy with 

 the most interesting men and 

 women of the day. His verse is 

 tranquil and exquisite : the cul- 

 tured expression of most attractive 



speculations. R. B. Johnson 



Bibliography. Letters and Liter- 

 ary Remains, ed. W. A. Wright, new 

 ed. 1902 ; Letters to Fanny Kemble, 

 1895; Two SufEolk Friends, F. H. 

 Groome, 1895 ; Lives, J. Glyde, 

 1900; T. 

 Wright, 1904. 

 Fitzgerald, 

 PERCY HETH- 



ERINGTON (b. 



1834). Irish 

 writer. Born 

 in co. Louth, 

 he was educa- 

 ted at Stony - 

 hurst, and 

 Trinity Col- 

 lege, Dublin. 



FITZHERBERT 



Called to the Irish bar, he be- 

 came crown prosecutor, but aban- 

 doned law for literature and 

 removed to London;. He con- 

 tributed stories .to Dickens's All 

 the Year Round, and produced 

 many literary studies, historical 

 and theatrical works, and novels. 

 In 1895 he published Memoirs of 

 an Author. He engaged in sculpture 

 as a hobby, and his statue of Dr. 

 Johnson stands in London in the 

 churchyard of S. Clement Danes. 



Fitzherber t , MARIA A NNE ( 1 756- 

 1837). Wife of George IV. A 

 daughter of Walter Smythe, of 

 Brambridge, Hampshire, she mar- 

 ried in 1775 Edward Weld, of Lul- 



Percy Fitzgerald, 

 Irish writer 



Maria Anne Fitzherbert, wife of 

 George IV 



After B. Cotway 



worth Castle, Dorset. Her second 

 husband was Thomas Fitzherbert, 

 and after his death in 1781 she 

 lived at Richmond. In 1785 she 

 met the prince of Wales, who fell 

 in love with her, but to avoid his 

 attentions she went abroad. He 

 pressed his suit, however, and the 

 pair were married privately on 

 Dec. 21, 1785. 



According to the Royal Mar- 

 riages Act, 1772, the union was 

 illegal, and some, but not the 

 prince, held that it was invalid ; 

 the lady being a Roman Catholic, 

 it was sanctioned by the pope. In 

 1795 George married Caroline of 

 Brunswick and Mrs. Fitzherbert 

 left him for a time. They lived to- 

 gether again until 1803, when the 

 prince began to tire of her. They 

 finally parted, but George seemed 

 to retain some affection for her to 

 the end. Mrs. Fitzherbert, who 

 had an allowance of 6,000 a year, 

 died at Brighton, March 29, 1837. 

 A box of papers was left by her to 

 her executors for use at their dis- 

 cretion, but its contents have 

 never been really examined. See 

 Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV, 

 W. H. Wilkins, 1905. 



