Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Fitzgerald EDWARD, LORD
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDWARD, LORD, an Irish pat patriot; born near Dublin, Ireland, in 1763. He was a son of the first Duke of Leinster. He distinguished himself for intrepidity as aide-de-camp to Lord Rawdon in the latter part of the American Revolutionary War, and was severely wounded in the battle of Eutaw Springs. When the French Revolution broke out, he supported its principles, and in 1793 hastened to Paris. Here he married Pamela, the daughter, it is said, of Louis Philippe Joseph, the Duke of Orleans, and Madame de Genlis. On his return to Ireland, Fitzgerald was desirous of effecting a separation of that country from England, and induced the French Directory to furnish him with a fleet and troops. A landing was attempted on several occasions, but without success, owing to the vigilance of the English channel fl fleet; and Fitzgerald was seized, tried, and condemned to death. He died of his wounds before the time fixed for his execution, 1798. His wife had been educated with the daughters of the Duke of Orleans, by Madame de Genlis, and married a second time, Mr. Pitcairn, the American consul at Hamburg.
Fitzgerald EDWARD, an English poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDWARD, an English poet; born in Bredfield House, near Suffolk, England, March 31, 1809. His father, John Purcell, assumed the name Fitzgerald, which was his wife's family Fit His writings are for the most name. part remodeled translations of poems in other languages; among them are: "Six Dramas from Calderon" (1853), and an" and two more ("The Mighty Magician" "Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made of") subsequently "The Rubaiyát of Omar Khayyam" (1859), a translation that won for Fitzgerald great celebrity; a version of the "Agamemnon" of Æschylus; and versions of other Greek and Persian poets. He died in Merton, Norfolk, England, June 14, 1883.
Fitzgerald a city of Georgia
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of Georgia, the It is on the county-seat of Ben Hill co. county- Seaboard Air Line, the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic, and the Ocilla Southern railroads. Its industries include cotton and oil mills, fertilizer plants, and railroad repair shops. It has a large trade in timber and turpentine. Pop. (1910) 5,795; (1920) 6,870.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's wrote in 1921 that Lord Edward FitzGerald was "seized, tried, and condemned to death" and died of his wounds before the execution date; in fact he was never tried at all — he was wounded resisting arrest in Dublin on 19 May 1798 and died in Newgate prison on 4 June, weeks before any trial could be held, and the failed landings of 1796–98 were the work of Wolfe Tone and the French rather than of FitzGerald himself. Edward FitzGerald the poet has had the opposite fate: the "Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám" (1859) became one of the most quoted poems in English, and modern scholars stress that it is a free re-creation rather than the "remodeled translation" the entry describes, with Omar's own authorship of many quatrains now in doubt. Fitzgerald, Georgia, founded in 1896 as a colony for Union veterans, has barely grown since the 6,870 of the 1920 census — it still counts under 9,000 people and is still the seat of Ben Hill County — but turpentine and cotton mills have gone, and the town's best-known feature is now the flocks of feral junglefowl that roam its streets, celebrated in an annual Wild Chicken Festival.
Written for this edition, 2026.