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.
FITZ-GEOFRY, HENRY; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1611, adm. scholar 1612, matr. Mich. 1611. [Possibly the satirist Henry Fitzgeffrey (see DNB), who the editors of Al. Cant. state was doubtless the second son of Sir George FitzJeffreys, Barford, Beds., and was adm. Lincoln’s Inn 5 Nov 1614, called to bar 14 Jun 1621]
FITZGARRET, EDWARD, son of George Fitzgarret; b. ; adm. ; QS 1582 (see Acts of Privy Council, NS xiii, 303, for a letter dated 21 Dec 1581 requiring the Dean not only to admit Fitzgarret “scholler into his Colledge, as sone as any place shall there happen to be voyde” but also “to have speciall care for his bringing up, until he shall prove sufficient to be otherwise preferred”).
FITGERALD, WILLIAM, son of Rev. Richard Fitzgerald, Ireland; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1649, aged 17, matr. 7 Jun 1651, Westminster Student.
FITCH, WILLIAM, eldest son of John Fitch, High Hall, Henbury, Dorset, and St. Anne’s, Blackfriars, London, builder, and Melior, dau. of William Russell, Kingston Lacy, Dorset; b.; adm.; KS (aged 11) 1687; left 1690; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 5 Feb 1689/90; adm. Middle Temple 9 Jan 1689/90; m. (settlements dated 11-12 Apr 1694) Anne, dau. of Sir Thomas Leigh, Testwood, Hampshire [IGI has marriage at Nursling, Hampshire 12 Apr 1693 (sic)]; d. 8 Oct 1743.
FISHER, SAMUEL; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1614 (Chapter Muniments 33669).
FISHER, SAMUEL, second son of Rev. Henry Fisher, Vicar of Warbling, Sussex, and intruded Vicar of Battle, Sussex, and Winifred ---; bapt. 21 Feb 1651/2; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1669; “of a very good heart, and studious besides”, according to William Taswell (adm. 1660, qv); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1670, matr. 1 Jul 1670, aged 18, Westminster Student 30 Dec 1670 - void 1686; BA 1674; MA 1677; ordained; Rector of Wood Norton, Norfolk, from 23 Feb 1684, and of Swanton Novers, Norfolk, from 30 Mar 1686; d. 17 Feb 1691/2.
Fisher, Roderick Charles, younger son of Edmund Montagu Prinsep Fisher, of Chelsea, by Janie Magdalene, daughter of Douglas William Freshfield, of Forest Row, Sussex; nephew of Charles Dennis Fisher (q.v.); b. Sept. 21, 1902; adm. as K.S. Sept. 21, 1916; Capt. of the School 1920; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1921, matric. Michaelmas 1921; B.A. 1923; A. R. I. B.A. 1931; asst. architect, Schools Division, London County Council 1936; architect (grade i) 1959; served in London Heavy Rescue Service in Great War II; m. March, 1938, Margaret Fletcher, daughter of Ralph Fletcher Wright, of Marden, Kent.
FISHER, JABEZ, eldest son of Robert Fisher, Mitcham, Surrey, attorney, and his first wife Jane, dau. of Jabez Daniel, London, goldsmith; b. 14 Feb 1771; adm. 6 Mar 1783, from St. Paul’s Sch.; KS 1784; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 29 Jun 1789, Bishop Williams scholar 3 Nov 1789, kept six terms, matr. Mich. 1789; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 4 Nov 1788, called to bar 20 May 1794; d. unm. 25 May 1830.
FISHER, FREDERICK, fourth son of Robert Fisher (adm. 1783, qv); b. 3 Jul 1816; adm. 30 Jun 1830 (Stikeman's); KS 1831; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1835, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1835, scholar 1836, matr. Mich. 1835; migr. to Magdalene Coll. 26 Oct 1836; BA 1840; MA 1843; ordained deacon (New Zealand) 1847, priest (Salisbury) 1853; missionary with SPG at Howick, New Zealand 1847-9; Curate, Bremhill, Wilts., 1850; various other curacies to 1869; Vicar of Fleet, Hants., 1869-72; Rector of Downham, Cambs., from 1863; m. 1 Feb 1849 Mary, younger dau. of William Hayes, Middle Temple, barrister; d. 10 Jun 1884.