Fitzgerald, Edward

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Epithet: Major Baron

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Epithet: of Add MS 37538

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Epithet: Captain; of Stowe MS 202

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Epithet: translator of Omar Khayyám

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Epithet: Captain; Lord Tunbridge's Foot

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Epithet: Major; of Tangier

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Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883), poet and translator, was born at Bredfield House, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, on 31 March 1809. He entered King Edward the Sixth's Grammar School at Bury St Edmunds in 1821, and joined Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1826 (B.A., 1830). Fitzgerald settled in Suffolk, and worked on the translation of classical texts, many of which were published anonymously. His best known work is an English translation from the Persian of the 'Rubiyt of Omar Khayym', published anonymously in 1859. Fitzgerald died at Merton Rectory in Norfolk on 14 June 1883.

From the guide to the Edward Fitzgerald: Bird-Parliament and Letters, 1857-1870, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)

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