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FITZGERALD—FITZ-GERALD. joined the, guard-ship at Plymouth, Capt. Jas. Nash, 36, Capt. Henry Vansittart, and  84, and  74, flag-ships in the Mediterranean of Rear-Admirals Benj. Hallowell and Thos. Fras. Fremantle. As Acting-Lieutenant of the 18, Capt. Jas. Black, Mr. Fitzgerald, in 1813, served in the batteries at the siege of Trieste; after which he rejoined the ; and, on 3 Feb. 1814, being then Acting-Lieutenant of the 36, Capt. Black, aided in causing the seif-destruction of the French 40-gun frigate Uranie. Having passed his examination 5 Dec. 1810, this officer, who, during his stay in the Mediterranean, had also seen much active boat-service, was confirmed in his present rank, 26 Aug. 1814. He has not since been employed.

He married, 21 Feb. 1835, Jane, only daughter of Christopher Beaty, Esq., of Enniskillen, co. Cork, by whom he has issue six children.

 FITZGERALD. 

entered the Navy (into which he was impressed), 15 Oct. 1787, as A.B., on board the sloop, Capt. Valentine Edwards, but was soon afterwards discharged. In 1790 he re-embarked on board the, Lieut.-Commander Russell, lying in the river Thames; and, while afterwards serving under Capt. Edw. Thornbrough, he was present, in the 38, in the action of 1 June, 1794, and, in the  74, whose loss, it was subsequently found, amounted to 10 killed and 40 wounded, at the capture, 12 Oct. 1798, off the coast of Ireland, of the French 74-gun ship Le Hoche, one of a squadron commanded by Commodore Bompart. He obtained a Lieutenancy in the sloop, Capts. Edw. Durnford King and Rich. Peacocke, on the West India station, 2 Nov. 1798; was there invested with the command, 16 June, 1802, of a small vessel called the ; and, from March, 1803, until 1806, was employed in the Impress and Sea Fencible services at Waterford and Dungarvon. Mr. Fitzgerald, who had not since been employed, became a Retired Commander on the Senior List 1 June, 1842.

 FITZGERALD. 

entered the Navy, 1 May, 1818, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capt. Hon. Pownoll Bastard Pellew, bearing the flag at Plymouth of Lord Exmouth; proceeded, towards the close of the same year, to the Cape of Good Hope, in the  26, Capt. Geo. Rennie; and, from July, 1821, until 18 April, 1825, served, as Midshipman and Mate, on the North America and West India station, in the 28, Capt. Henry Bourchier,  50, flag-ship of Sir Lawrence Wm. Halsted, and schooner, commanded by Messrs. Wm. Langford Castle and Chas. Bolton, Mates. He then, having passed his examination in Sept. 1823, became First-Lieutenant of the 10, Capt. John Geo. Graham; and, on 22 March, 1826, he was appointed to the 44, Capt. Jeremiah Coghlan, on the South American station. For his conduct on the night of 26 Aug. 1827, in capturing, with the boats of that ship under his orders, the ''Convencion. Argentina a piratical vessel, together with her prize, the Anne of Workington'', Mr. FitzGerald was placed by the Lord High Admiral on the List for promotion, and, on a vacancy occurring, 27 Nov. 1829, he was appointed to the 18. Returning home from South America in Feb. 1832, he afterwards joined – 19 March, 1835, the Coast Guard – 30 May, 1839, the 72, bearing the broad pendant at Jamaica of Commodore Peter John Douglas -and, 15 March, 1841, the  18, stationed in North America and the West Indies. On resigning the command of the latter vessel, in consequence of his promotion to Post-rank, which had taken place 23 Nov. 1841, Capt. FitzGerald, in April, 1842, was intrusted by Sir Chas. Adam, the Commander-in-Chief, with an important mission to Guatemala, in Mexico, where he succeeded in inducing a compliance with the demands of the British Government. Since 20 March, 1845, he has been in command of the 50, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sam. Hood Inglefield on the south-east coast of America and East India stations. – Coplands and Burnett.

 FITZGERALD. 

was born 17 Sept. 1778, and died 4 Dec. 1845.

This officer entered the Navy, 6 Dec. 1793, as Ordinary, on board the 36, Capts. Wm. Cunningham and Wm. Wolseley; and on next joining the 74, Capt. Bartholomew Sam. Rowley, took part in Hotham’s partial action with the French fleet, 13 July, 1795. After serving for a few months with Capt. Chas. Rowley in the 36, he became Midshipman, 4 Aug. 1797, of the  74, Capts. B. S. Rowley, Henry Inman, and Rich. Grindall, on the Channel station, where, in 1800, he joined the 110, bearing the flag of Earl St. Vincent, and  98,. Capt. Theophilus Jones. In the 74, Capt. Wm. Cuming, of which ship he was created a Lieutenant 27 Feb. 1801, Mr. FitzGerald, on 2 April following, witnessed the battle off Copenhagen. In Feb. 1804, having been on half-pay since Nov. 1801, he obtained an appointment in the Sea Fencibles at Youghal, whence he removed, 10 Nov. following, to the, Capt. Wm. Bevians. He rejoined the Sea Fencibles 12 Dec. 1805, and retained his appointment until that corps was disbanded in the early part of 1810. He continued thenceforward unemployed, and accepted the rank of Retired Commander 29 Dec. 1830.

Commander FitzGerald married, 15 June, 1803, Mary, youngest daughter of John M‘Grath, of Grange, co. Waterford, and has left issue ten children.

 FITZ-GERALD. 

, born 18 Aug. 1793, is only son of the late John Fitz-Gerald, Esq., of St. Christopher’s, and grandson of Wm. Higgins, Esq., Speaker of the House of Assembly in the island of Nevis.

This officer entered the Navy, 2 April, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 16, Capts. Geo. Edm. Byron Bettesworth and John Ayscough, stationed in the West Indies, where, until 1813, he afterwards served, .as Midshipman, in and  brigs, both commanded by Lieut. Geo. Jas. Evelyn, and 14, Lieut-Commander Chas. Deyman Jermy. While in in 1807, he assisted at the capture of the Danish West India islands, and at the re-taking of a prize, whose original captor, La Félicité, a large three-masted French schooner privateer, was simultaneously beaten off, after a close action, in which  lost 1 man killed and 4 wounded. During his attachment to the, Mr. Fitz-Gerald served on shore at the reduction of Martinique in Feb. 1809; and in the course of the same and following years he also partook of the operations against the Saintes and Guadeloupe. On 14 Dec. 1813, while serving on board the 64, flag-ship in the Downs of Sir Thos. Foley, he joined, as Acting-Lieutenant, the 10, Capts. Thos. Fife and Watkin Evans, under whom he cruized until 26 March, 1814; but he was not officially promoted until 7 Feb. 1815 – previously to which he had been re-employed, as Midshipman, in the Monmouth, and had done duty in the same capacity on board the 74, flag-ship of Sir Philip Durham in the Leeward Islands. From 15 March, 1815, until May, 1816, Mr. Fitz-Gerald served in the 18, Capt. Wm. Wilmott Henderson, and, with the boats of that ship and of the under his orders, he cut out three of the enemy’s vessels, under a heavy fire of musketry from the town of François, Guadeloupe – an exploit for which he was officially commended in very warm terms.