Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald

Who was Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald?

Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald was an Anglo-Irish author and critic, painter and sculptor. He was born in Ireland at Fane Valley, County Louth, educated at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, and at Trinity College, Dublin. He was called to the Irish bar and was for a time crown prosecutor on the northeastern circuit.

After moving to London, he became a contributor to Charles Dickens's magazine, Household Words, and later dramatic critic for the Observer and the Whitehall Review. Among his many writings are numerous biographies and works relating to the history of the theatre. He wrote:

Life of Sterne

Charles Lamb

Life of David Garrick

Life of George IV

The Kembles; Life of William IV

Lives of the Sheridans

The Book Fancier

Life of James Boswell with an Account of His Sayings, Doings, and Writings

Henry Irving: A Record of Twenty Years at the Lyceum

Savoy Opera: The Operas of Gilbert & Sillivan

Boswell's Autobiography

The Romance of the English Stage

A New History of the English Stage

Memories of Charles Dickens

Worldlyman

Memoirs of an Author