Robert Fitzroy

Standard Name: Fitzroy, Robert
Used Form: Captain Robert Fitzroy

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW 's play After Darwin, exploring the conflict between naturalist Charles Darwin and ship's captain Robert Fitzroy , was produced at Hampstead Theatre , in London.
Morley, Sheridan. “Summer School Is in Session: ’After Darwin’”. International Herald Tribune, 15 July 1998.
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Textual Production Amabel Williams-Ellis
AWE published an adaptation from the Beagle Expedition narratives of Charles Darwin and Robert Fitzroy , written in 1831-36: H.M.S. Beagle in South America.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Timeline

August 1861: Captain Robert Fitzroy, head of the United...

National or international item

August 1861

Captain Robert Fitzroy , head of the United Kingdom's Meteorological Department , began issuing the first routine weather forecasts in Britain.

Texts

Williams-Ellis, Amabel et al. H.M.S. Beagle in South America. Watts, 1930.