Edmund Gerald FitzGibbon (1 November 1825 – 12 December 1905) was a barrister and
Town clerk
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of
Melbourne
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.
[Bernard Barrett,]
FitzGibbon, Edmund Gerald (1825 - 1905)
, ''Australian Dictionary of Biography
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'', Vol. 4, MUP, 1972, pp 181-182.
FitzGibbon was born in
Cork
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Materials
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***Wine cork
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,
Ireland
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, son of Gibbon Carew FitzGibbon and his wife Catherine, ''née'' Hurley.
[
FitzGibbon worked as a clerk in ]London
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and migrated to Victoria
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in 1852. In 1854 FitzGibbon became a clerical assistant in the Melbourne City Council office. Two years later FitzGibbon became town clerk of Melbourne, a position he held until 1891.
In 1882, the Victorian government botanist, Ferdinand von Mueller
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, named ''Lasiopetalum fitzgibbonii
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...
'' in his honour.Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works
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.[ FitzGibbon was appointed C.M.G. in 1892.][
]
References
Melbourne City Council
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1825 births
1905 deaths
Australian barristers
Australian Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Australian people of Irish descent
19th-century Australian public servants