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.
Fitz Hugh, Peter, son of Frank Leonard Fitz Hugh, Editor London Evening News and dir. Assoc. Newspapers, and Elsie Margaret, d. of John Hodgson, stationmaster, of Derby; b. 6 Feb. 1921; adm. Sept. 1934 (G); left July 1939; Pemb. Coll. Camb., matric. 1939, BA 1942, MA J 955; RAFVR m WW2 (Flt Lieut.); pres. TV Electronics Corpn San Rafael, Cal., USA; m. 6 Feb. 1948 Katherine, d. of William Frederick Thomas of New York; d. 17 Mar. 2014.
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”).
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]
FITZGERALD, ARNOLD, only son of Augustine Frederick Fitzgerald, Bournemouth, Hampshire, and Penelope Frederica, dau. of William Frederick Collard; b. 18 Jul 1855; adm. 7 May 1867 (James'); left Dec 1869; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 20 Oct 1874.
FITZGERALD, HENRY VESEY, younger son of Right Hon. Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald PC GCSI, Governor of Bombay, Conservative politician, and Maria Tryphena, dau. of Edward Seymour MD; b. 12 Dec 1848; adm. (G) 30 May 1861; Min. Can. 1863; coxed Westminster eight against Eton 28 Jul 1864; left Aug 1864; District Superintendent of Police, Bombay; m. 7 Aug 1873 Josephine Louisa, dau. of Robert St. George, Ahascragh, co. Galway, Ireland; d. 16 Mar 1925.
FITZGERALD, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1736 (Woodcock's); left 1737. [Perhaps John Fitzgerald, bapt. St. James, Clerkenwell 17 Jan 1724, son of Maurice Fitzgerald, and Anne --- (IGI) ].
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.
FITZGERALD-DE ROS, WILLIAM LENNOX LASCELLES, 23RD BARON DE ROS, third son of Lord Henry Fitzgerald MP, and Charlotte, Baroness De Ros, only dau. of Hon. Robert Boyle-Walsingham MP (I); b. 1 Sep 1797; adm. Christmas 1809; KS 1811; said to have passed a night in the Abbey to confront Bradshaw’s ghost, which was supposed to haunt the chamber in the south-west tower and the triforium passage nearby (Stanley, Hist. Mem. of Westminster Abbey, 437, n. 3); elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1815, but went to Ch. Ch. Oxford, matr. 16 Dec 1815, Canoneer Student 1815-24; BA 1819; MA 1822; Cornet and Sub-Lieut., 1st Life Guards 29 Mar 1819; Lieut., 24 Aug 1821; Capt., 23 Oct 1824; Maj., 5 Jun 1827; Lieut. -Col., 8 Sep 1831; Col., 9 Nov 1846; Maj. -Gen., 20 Jun 1854; Lieut. -Gen., 12 Mar 1861; Gen., 10 Nov 1868; Col., 4th Hussars, from 6 Feb 1865; served as Quartermaster - Gen. in Crimean War; a Gentleman Usher Quarterly Waiter to William IV 21 Oct 1836; succeeded brother as 23rd Baron De Ros 29 Mar 1839; took Conservative whip in House of Lords; Captain, Yeomen of the Guard Feb- Dec 1852, Mar 1858 - Jun 1859; Privy Councillor 27 Feb 1852; Lieut. -Governor, Tower of London, from 13 Feb 1852; a Busby Trustee from 16 May 1865; m. 7 Jun 1824 Lady Georgiana Lennox, sister of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond (qv); d. 6 Jan 1874.
FITZHARDING, WILLIAM GEORGE AUGUSTUS, recorded on baptism at St. Mary’s, Marylebone Road, London, as son of William Fitzharding, and Jane --- (IGI), (but said to have been an illegitimate son of William Berkeley, 1st Earl Fitzhardinge, and Jane Baldwin, niece of Maj. -Gen. Thomas Hawkshaw, EICS Bengal); b. 8 Jun 1810; adm. 23 Sep 1823 (Stelfox's); KS 1825; left 1826; articled to Thomas Clarke, Solicitor to the Ordnance, 1827; emigrated to Australia 1838; adm. solicitor, New South Wales 1 Apr 1840; practised in Sydney; m. 1st, c. 1833 Mary Anne Gahen; m. 2nd, 18 Nov 1844 Anna Amelia, dau. of William Hyde; m. 3rd, 16 Aug 1866 Harriet Ellen, dau. of Alfred Elyard, Sydney, solicitor; d. at Paddington, New South Wales, Australia 12 Sep 1884.