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Fitzmaurice, EDMOND GEORGE 



FlTZMATJRICE, 1ST BARON (b. 1846). 



British politician. Born June 19, 

 1846, second 

 son of the 4th 

 marquess of 

 Lansdowne, he 

 was educated 

 at Eton and 

 Trinity Col- 

 1 e g e, C a m- 

 bridge. En- 

 tering political 



Baron Fitzmaurice, Iife,froml869~ 

 British politician 



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1880 he was commissioner for the 

 reorganization of the European 

 provinces of Turkey and Crete 

 under the treaty of Berlin, and 

 second plenipotentiary at the Dan- 

 ube Conference, London, 1882-83. 

 In 1882 he became under -secretary 

 for foreign affairs in the Liberal 

 ministry, but in 1885 he lost his 

 seat, and until 1898 he remained 

 out of Parliament. He was then 

 returned for the Cricklade division 

 of Wiltshire, retiring in 1905. 

 Again under-secretary for foreign 

 affairs, he was made a peer in 

 1906, and in 1908-9 was chan- 

 cellor of the duchy of Lancaster. 

 Lord Fitzmaurice wrote a number 

 of books, the best known being 

 Life of William, Earl of Shelburne, 

 1875-77 ; and Life of Earl Gran- 

 ville, 1905. 



Fitzmaurice-Kelly, JAMES 

 (1857-1923). British man of let- 

 ters. Born June 20, 1857, he devoted 

 himself to the 

 study of the 

 language and 

 literature of 

 Spain. He held 

 the posts of 

 Taylorian lec- 

 turer at Ox- 

 ford Univer- 

 sity,1902;Nor- 

 man MacColl 

 lecturer at 

 Cambridge, 1908 and 1912 ; and pro- 

 fessor (Cervantes chair of Spanish) 

 at King's College, London, re- 

 signing in 1920. His works include 

 Life of Cervantes, 1892 ; A History 

 of Spanish Literature, 1898 ; Lope 

 de Vega and the Spanish Drama, 

 1902 ; Chapters on Spanish Litera- 

 ture, 1908 ; Miguel de Cervantes 

 Saavedra : a Memoir, 1913 ; and an 

 edition of Cervantes' works in Eng- 

 lish, 1901-3. He died Jan. 11, 1 923. 



Fit zpa trick, SIR CHARLES (b. 

 1853). Canadian lawyer. Born in 

 Quebec, Dec. 19, 1853, he was edu- 

 cated at St. Anne's College and 

 Laval University there. In 1876 he 

 became a barrister, and in 1879 

 crown prosecutor for Quebec. From 

 1890 to 1896 he was a member of 

 the legislative assembly of Quebec, 



J. Fitzmaurice-Kelly, 

 British man of letters 



Sir C. Fitzpatrick, 

 Canadian lawyer 



being one of the representatives of 

 the capital therein. At the general 

 election of 1896 Fitzpatrick en- 

 tered Dominion politics as member 

 for the same city in the House of 

 Commons at Ottawa. In the same 

 year he was made solicitor-general 

 in the Laurier administration, and 

 in 1902 he became minister of 

 justice. In 

 1906 he was 

 chosen chief 

 justice of Can- 

 ada, retaining 

 this post until 

 made lieuten- 

 ant-governor of 

 the province of 

 Quebec in 1918. 

 In 1907 he was 

 knighted. From 

 1908-10 Sir Charles was a member 

 of the Hague tribunal. 



Fitzroy. River of Queensland, 

 Australia. It is formed by the 

 union of the Dawson with the 

 Mackenzie, and flows an easterly 

 course to discharge into Keppel 

 Bay. It is navigable for steamers 

 up to 1,000 tons to Rockhampton, 

 a distance of 35 m. One of the 

 most important rivers in Queens- 

 land, its fertile valley contains 

 many stock farms which supply 

 the refrigerating works on the 

 coast ; this industry will develop. 

 There is another river of this name 

 in W. Australia. It rises in King 

 Leopold range, and pursuing a 

 generally westerly course it empties 

 into King Sound on the Indian 

 Ocean. It is navigable for 100 m. 

 Length, 300 m. 



Fitzroy. North-eastern suburb 

 of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 

 It is a manufacturing centre, with 

 a rly. station and several large 

 recreation grounds, including the 

 Edinburgh Gardens to the N.E., 

 the Carlton Gardens to the S.W., 

 and the Fitzroy Gardens to the S. 

 The last are laid out with fine 

 avenues of trees and adorned with 

 statues and fountains. Pop. 34,283. 

 See Melbourne. 



Fitzroy, ROBERT (1805-65). 

 British sailor. Son of Lord Charles 

 Fitzroy, and grandson of the 3rd 

 duke of Grafton, he was born in 

 Suffolk, July 5, 1805. He entered 

 the R.N. College in 1819, and be- 

 came lieutenant in 1824. In 1831 

 he sailed in command of the Beagle, 

 a brig engaged in surveying the S. 

 coast of S. America, with Charles 

 Darwin as naturalist. During this 

 voyage, 1831-36, Fitzroy sur- 

 veyed most of the S. American 

 coasts and ran a chronometric line 

 round the world. In 1839 he pub- 

 lished his Narrative of the Survey- 

 ing Ships H.M.S. Adventure and 

 Beagle, in three volumes, the last 

 written by Darwin. In 1841 he was 



M.P. for Durham, and in 1843 was 

 appointed governor of New Zea- 

 land, but his attitude towards the 

 settlers incurred their anger and he 

 was recalled in 1845. He became 

 vice-admiral in 1863 and died 

 April 30, 1865. He is remembered 

 by his invention of the Fitzroy 

 barometer. 



Fitzrpy's Cypress (Fitzroya 

 patagonica). Evergreen tree of the 

 natural order Coniferae. A native 

 of Patagonia, it has slender, 

 spreading branches and flat, over- 

 lapping, oval- oblong leaves. The 

 cones are small and star-shaped, 

 consisting of nine scales. The 

 height of the trunk is 100 ft. 



Fitzsimmons, ROBERT (1862- 

 1917). British pugilist. Born at 

 Helston, Cornwall, June 4, 1862, 

 he went to New Zealand with his 

 parents at the age of nine, and was 

 trained as a blacksmith. After 

 several local successes he entered 

 the ring as a professional, and 

 moved to Sydney, where he beat 

 Bill Slam, West, and Professor 

 Hall, but was himself beaten by 

 Jem Hall in the contest for middle- 

 weight championship. 



Proceeding to the United States 

 in 1890, he defeated Jack Dempsey 

 to be distinguished from the 

 later pugilist of the same name 

 in 13 rounds in the fight for 

 the middleweight championship of 

 the world ; nine months later he 

 beat Peter Maher hi 12 rounds, 

 and in 1897 obtained the heavy- 

 weight championship at Carson 

 City. In June, 1899, he was de- 

 feated by Jeffries, and in 1902, 

 although forty years of age, he 

 challenged Jeffries again, but was 

 beaten in the eighth round, after 

 putting up a splendid fight. In 

 1905 he was beaten in 13 rounds by 

 Jack O'Brien, and after meeting 

 Jack Johnson in 1907, and Bill 

 Lang in 1912, he retired from the 

 ring after an exceptionally long 

 career. He died Oct. 22, 1917. 



Fitzwilliam, EARL. British 

 title held by the family of Fitz- 

 william since 1746. The family is an 

 old one, tracing back its descent to 

 Sir William Fitzwilliam of Ehnley, 

 Yorkshire. It became specially 

 prominent hi the time of Elizabeth. 

 Sir William Fitzwilliam (1526- 

 1599) was the grandson of another 

 Sir William, a London merchant 

 who was also one of the servants of 

 Cardinal Wolsey. The younger Sir 

 William passed much of his time in 

 Ireland as lord deputy, 157175 

 and 1588-94. Having acquired 

 lands in Ireland, his grandson was 

 made an Irish baron in 1620. 



William, the 3rd baron (1643- 

 1719), was created a viscount 

 and an earl in 1716, and from him 

 the present peer is descended. 



