Rev. Thomas Fitzgerald

The son of Gerald Fitzgerald, Thomas Fitzgerald studied at Westminster School before entering Trinity College Cambridge in 1714 (B.A. 1718, Fellow 1720, M.A. 1721) and was ordained in 1718. Fitzgerald was Lecturer at St. John the Evangelist, Westminster and usher of Westminster School; later he was Vicar of Brigstock in Northamptonshire (1737), Rector of Wotton, Surrey (1739-52) and Rector of Arbinger (1743-52). He was perhaps a friend of the younger Samuel Wesley; see Nichols, Anecdotes (1812-15) 2:85.

TEXT RECORDS:

1736Tomo Chachi: An Ode.

PUBLICATIONS:

Poems on several occasions. 1733, 1736.
Georgia, a poem. Tomo Chachi, an ode. 1736.
Georgia, and two other occasional poems on the founding of the colony. 1736.
Publii Terentii comoediae sex, etc [ed. Fitzgerald]. 1736.
Poems. 1781.
M. V. Martialis epigrammata etc. [ed. Fitzgerald]. 1790.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Anglican

Westminster School
Trinity College Cambridge
Bachelor of Arts
Master of Arts
College Fellow

clergyman
schoolmaster
tutor
poet
editor

Rev. Samuel Wesley the Younger

REFERENCE:

Not DNB; NCBEL.

Robert Southey, Specimens of Later English Poets (1807); I. A. Williams, "Another By-way Around Helicon" Bookman (August 1923); Venn and Venn, Alum. Cant. (1922-27); Old Westminsters (1928); Fairchild, in Religious Trends in English Poetry (1939); Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database (1995).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Rev. Thomas Fitzgerald:

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BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Rev. Thomas Fitzgerald:

1.	1807  Robert Southey, in Specimens of Later English Poets (1807) 2:184.