Fitzroy Carrington (1869 – December 31, 1954) was an English-born American editor who became known as a leading authority on prints, particularly those of the 15th and 16th centuries.
Retrieved February 14, 2019 Born in

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, his high school education was at

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, and he came to the United States in 1886. He obtained an honorary College degree in the USA shortly before teaching at Harvard. His brother was the famed writer and psychic researcher Hereward Carrington. For 21 years (1892–1913) he was identified with

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& Co. (

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) dealers in

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and

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s, being a member of the firm after 1899. During this period he made a specialty of selecting, arranging, and writing introductions for artistic editions of such works as

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's ''New Life; The Queen's Garland'' (Elizabethan verse);

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's ''Pictures and Poems'';

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's ''The Doom of King Acristus; The King's Lyrics'' (1899); ''The Shepherd's Pipes'' (1903); ''The Pilgrim's Staff'' (1906). In 1911, the year before publishing ''Prints and their Makers'', he had undertaken the editorship of ''

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'', a journal unique in the United States. He continued to be editor after 1913, although then giving up his business interests to become lecturer on the history and principles of engraving, at

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, and appointed

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of prints at the

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in 1912.G., Resignation of Mr. FitzRoy Carrington, Curator of the Department of Prints (December 1, 1921), Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin, Volume 19, p71.
retrieved 1/21/2014 While working at Harvard and the Museum of Fine Arts, He resided in Belmont, Massachusetts,Deed of Sale from Nellie L McArdle to Fitz Roy Carrington, 10 December 1912, Southern Middlesex County, Massachusetts Deed Book 3749, page 317. Middlesex South Registry of Deeds, Cambridge, Massachusetts. in an historic revival style house.Belmont Historic District Commission, Belmont:The Architecture and Development of The Town of Homes, 1984, Town of Belmont, Belmont, Massachusetts, p 89. He purchased this house from the original architect/builder/owner, who built an adjacent similar home partially financed by Carrington appending a portion of the adjacent lot.Deed of Sale from Nellie L McArdle to Fitz Roy Carrington, 3 February 1913, Southern Middlesex County, Massachusetts Deed Book 3759, page 469. Middlesex South Registry of Deeds, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He resigned as editor of ''

'' in 1917, but became the American editor of the same periodical in 1921, the year he resigned from the Museum of Fine Arts. He is the author of ''Engravers and Etchers'' (Scammon Lectures, 1921) and ''On Print Collecting'' (1929). Carrington died at the age of 85 while visiting friends in the

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town of

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. This can easily be expanded by referring to some of the New York Who's Who, a few magazine articles and other book references.

External links

New York Public Library catalog listing for "On Print Collecting" (source for death year)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Carrington, Fitzroy English emigrants to the United States Harvard University faculty American art curators American publishers (people) American book editors American magazine editors People from Belmont, Massachusetts 1869 births 1954 deaths People educated at Victoria College, Jersey Journalists from New York City People associated with the Detroit Institute of Arts