Edward FitzGerald

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  • BirthName: Edward Purcell
  • Self-constructed: FitzGerald
Oval watercolour miniature on ivory of Edward FitzGerald by Eva Mary Bernard (née Orr), Lady Rivett-Carnac, based on a photograph taken in 1873. FitzGerald, largely bald with sideburns, looks to the left; his jacket has a wide brown-velvet collar. National Portrait Gallery, London.

Milestones

31 March 1809

EFG , poet and translator, was born as Edward Purcell at Bredfield House, Bredfield, near Woodbridge in Suffolk, the youngest but one in a family of eight.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

14 June 1883

EFG , poet and translator, died at the rectory at Merton in Norfolk, where he was visiting friends, of heart disease.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Family

31 March 1809

EFG , poet and translator, was born as Edward Purcell at Bredfield House, Bredfield, near Woodbridge in Suffolk, the youngest but one in a family of eight.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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