It was first popularized in the 1920s by John J. Fitz Gerald, a sports writer for the New York Morning Telegraph.

The Big Apple was first popularized as a reference to New York City by John J. Fitz Gerald in a number of New York Morning Telegraph articles in the 1920s in reference to New York horse-racing.

Although the series was still drawing large audiences, after " White Ghost " Coltrane declined to return as Fitz unless McGovern returned to write the series.

The series was principally filmed in South Manchester, at locations including Didsbury ( where Fitz lived at the fictitious address of " 15 Charlotte Road ") and the police station at Longsight.

The Earl of Arundel, Sir Edmund Fitz Alan, an old enemy of Roger Mortimer, was beheaded on 17 November, together with two of the earl's retainers, John Daniel and Thomas de Micheldever.

Llywelyn sent troops to help Gwenwynwyn, but in August Gwenwynwyn's force was attacked by an army led by the Justiciar, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, and heavily defeated.

Though the settlement became known as Ludlow, Fouke le Fitz Waryn a 13th-century poem states that it was called Dinham " for a very long time ".

The 1976 – 77 season would be memorable for the 76ers ; as a result of the terms of the ABA-NBA merger they acquired Julius Erving from the New York Nets, soon after the team was purchased by local philanthropist Fitz Eugene Dixon, Jr., grandson of George Dunton Widener and heir to the Widener fortune.

Like his father, Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare ( commonly known as Strongbow ) was a supporter of Stephen I of England-the last Norman king of England.

Walter was originally known as Walter Fitz Richard, but his name was gradually changed to that of his major holding, first as steward, then as lord.

* Fitz Hall, English footballer currently playing for Queens Park Rangers was born in Walthamstow

One of Matilda's most loyal followers was Brian Fitz Count, like Miles a marcher lord from Wales.

Fitz Count was apparently motivated by a strong moral duty to uphold his oath to Matilda and proved critical in defending the Thames corridor.

Finally, Ellen Fitz Pendleton was the sixth president of Wellesley, presiding at that institution during 1911-36.

Later, King John granted Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex permission to hold a fair and market in Kimbolton, as a consequence of which a market place was created, with the existing church at one end and a new castle at the other.

In the Domesday Book of 1086, Kilpeck ( entered as Chipeete ) was given by William the Conqueror to William Fitz Norman de la Mare, son of Norman de la Mare.

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was home to the Peconic School, an artist colony initially led by painters Benjamin Rutherfurd Fitz and Edward August Bell.

It seems likely that Hay was fortified by William Fitz Osbern during his penetration of south-east Wales in the summer of 1070 when he defeated three Welsh kings.

In 1145, in the reign of King Stephen, Akarius Fitz Bardolph who was Lord of Ravensworth, gave Peter de Quinciano, a monk from Savigny, land at Fors and Worton, in Wensleydale to build a monastery of their order.

It was held by Osuuold ( Oswald ) from Chertsey Abbey and Richard Fitz Gilbert.

Although the group, which included Simon of Pattishall, Ralph Foliot, Richard Barre, William de Warenne, Richard Herriard, and Osbert Fitz Hervey, had mostly already served as justices prior to Walter's term of office, it was Walter who used them extensively.

W. L. Warren advances the theory that either Walter or Geoffrey Fitz Peter, instead of Ranulf Glanvill, was the author of Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Angliae, a legal treatise on the laws and constitutions of the English.

William was the son of William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber and his wife Bertha of Hereford, also known as Bertha de Pitres, ( born 1130 ) daughter of Miles Fitz Walter, Earl of Hereford and his wife, Sibyl, daughter of Bernard de Neufmarche.

One of Logan's leading issues in the Senate was his efforts to stop any action taken to overturn the conviction in the court-martial of Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter.

The story involved Fitz returning to Manchester after several years of living in Australia with Judith and his son James ( who had been born during the final series of the original programme ) to attend his daughter Katy's wedding.

John Fitzwilliam Stairs, also known as John Fitz William Stairs ( January 19, 1848 – September 26, 1904 ) was an entrepreneur and statesman, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, a member of the prominent Stairs family of merchants and shippers founded by William Machin Stairs ( 1789 – 1865 ) that included the Victorian era explorer, William Grant Stairs.

* Ed Fitz Gerald ( born 1924 ), American baseball player

Brent Fitz a multi-instrumentalist born in Winnipeg, and currently resides in Las Vegas, has recorded and toured with a vast array of Canadian and International artists including Guns N ' Roses guitarist Slash, Alice Cooper, Mötley Crüe vocalist Vince Neil, Theory Of A Deadman, Streetheart, Harlequin and The Guess Who.

Martin was born at Ballynahinch Castle, County Galway, the only son of Robert Martin Fitz Anthony of Birch Hall, County Galway, and the Hon.

Hennacy was born in Negley, Ohio to Quaker parents, Benjamin Frankin Hennacy and Eliza Eunice Fitz Randolph, and grew up as a Baptist.

Fitz Hugh Ludlow was born September 11, 1836 in New York City.

Fitz Benjamin Hall ( born 20 December 1980, Leytonstone, London ) is an English footballer who plays for Watford.

Fitz Henry Lane ( born Nathaniel Rogers Lane, also known as Fitz Hugh Lane ) ( December 19, 1804 – August 14, 1865 ) was an American painter and printmaker of a style that would later be called Luminism, for its use of pervasive light.

Fitz Henry Lane was born on December 19, 1804, in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

* Fitz Vanderpool ( born 1967 ), Canadian boxer

Anji was born in 1973 and was 28 years old when she first met the Eighth Doctor and Fitz Kreiner in 2001.

* Michael Fitzpatrick ( musician ) ( born 1972 ), leader of Fitz and the Tantrums

Arnold Fitz Thedmar ( August 9, 1201 – 1274 or 1275 ) was a London chronicler and merchant ; he was born in London.

* Ellen Fitz Pendleton ( 1864 – 1936 ), American college president

The Eighth Doctor's former companion, Fitz, now Father Kreiner of Faction Paradox, claims to have killed the Rani as well as the Master ( during the " Second War in Heaven " described in Lawrence Miles ' EDA: Interference: Book One ), and now displays their skulls as trophies.

Fitzgerald Michael Kreiner, or simply Fitz, is a fictional character in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels based upon the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who.

The original Fitz, in the meantime, went on to become Father Kreiner, a Faction agent who hunted down many Time Lords before he was drawn into a bottle universe by the mysterious Gallifreyan I. M.

Kreiner, Fitz

Kreiner, Fitz

In The Taint by Michael Collier, Sam and the Doctor meet Fitz Kreiner.

Also in that novel, she began a romantic relationship with her fellow companion Fitz Kreiner, and the pair made plans to stop travelling with the Doctor and settle for a while on contemporary Earth using some of the proceeds.