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FITZGERALD, THOMAS, son of Gerald Fitzgerald, Westminster, Copying Clerk, House of Lords, and Anne ---; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1709; QS 1710; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1714, adm. pens. 27 May 1714, scholar 13 May 1715; BA 1717/8; MA 1721; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 6 Sep 1720, Major Fellow 5 Jul 1721; ordained deacon 9 Mar 1717/8, priest 18 Dec 1718 (both Rochester); an Usher at the School c. 1720 - c. 1745 (?); Curate and Lecturer, St. John the Evangelist, Westminster 1728; Vicar of Brigstock, Northants., 24 Aug - Nov 1737; Rector of Wotton, Surrey, from 24 Dec 1739; Rector of Abinger, Surrey, from 11 Jun 1743; edited Martial and Terence for use at the School; his Poems on several Occasions, 1733, dedicated to Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset (qv), includes the prologue to the school performance of Julius Caesar at which the latter acted; the Poems were reprinted in 1781 by his grandson Thomas Wintour (qv); m. 1st, 2 Jan 1727/8 Anne, dau. of Henry Playford, London, music publisher (her mother, Mrs Playford, was the Dame of a boarding house at the School c. 1719 - c. 1743); 2nd, 25 Aug 1741 Frances Weston, St. George’s, Hanover Square, London; d. 15 Aug 1752.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.