Charles Fitzgerald

Captain Charles Fitzgerald CB (1791 – 29 December 1887) was the Governor of The Gambia from 1844 until 1847, then Governor of Western Australia from 1848 to 1855.[1]

For other people named Charles Fitzgerald, see Charles Fitzgerald (disambiguation).

Charles Fitzgerald

Son of William FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster, Fitzgerald joined the navy in March 1809, passed his examination in 1815, and was commissioned in March 1826.[1] Soon after his arrival in Western Australia in 1848, Fitzgerald accompanied Augustus Gregory on an expedition in the Northampton region where Gregory and his brother had discovered lead the year before. An encounter with Aboriginal people resulted in Fitzgerald being speared in the leg and at least three Aborigines shot dead.[2]

The town of Geraldton, Western Australia was named after him.[1]

See also

• O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Fitzgerald, Charles" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.

References

1. Crowley, F. K. "FitzGerald, Charles (1791–1887)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 14 September 2012 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
2. Stannage, C.T. (1981). A New History of Western Australia. University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands. p. 97.

• The Constitution Centre of Western Australia (2002). "Captain Charles Fitzgerald 1848-1855". Governors and Premiers of Western Australia. West Perth, Western Australia: The Constitution Centre of Western Australia. ISBN 0-7307-3821-3. Archived from the original on 13 September 2009. Retrieved 8 June 2006.
• Mennell, Philip (1892). "Fitzgerald, Captain Charles" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.

Government offices
Preceded by Edmund Norcott	Governor of The Gambia 1844–1847	Succeeded by Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell
Preceded by Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Irwin	Governor of Western Australia 1848–1855	Succeeded by Sir Arthur Kennedy