They were given names: the girl he called Fuegia Basket ( so named because the replacement for the stolen boat was an improvised coracle that resembled a basket ), the boy Jemmy Button ( he was purchased by FitzRoy with buttons ) and the one man who did not escape he named York Minster ( named after the large rock near which he was captured ).

She was married to George Fitzroy, Earl of Euston, second son of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton and Lady Henrietta Somerset.

Fitzroy River, in northern Western Australia, was named after him by Lieutenant John Lort Stokes who, at the time, commanded HMS Beagle ( previously commanded by FitzRoy ).

FitzRoy has been commemorated by the Fitzroy Building at the University of Plymouth, used by the School of Earth, Ocean and Environmental Science.

Initially Fitzroy and Wakefield clashed seriously, particularly when FitzRoy declined to take any action against his brother's killers, as the settler party was acting illegally over a questionable land claim.

The Fitzroy Tavern was named after Charles FitzRoy ( later Baron Southampton ), who first developed the northern part of the area in the 18th century.

In addition to Fitzroy Square and nearby Fitzroy Street, there are numerous locations named for the FitzRoy family and Devonshire / Portland family, both significant local landowners.

The Fitzroy was named by Charles and William Archer on 4 May 1853 in honour of Sir Charles FitzRoy, Governor of the Colony of New South Wales, as Queensland did not become a separate colony until 1859.

The names of two settlements on East Falkland, Darwin and Fitzroy, commemorate Charles Darwin and Robert FitzRoy respectively.

Fitzroy or FitzRoy is an Anglo-Norman name originally meaning " son of the king ".

Stanhope was the son of William Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Harrington and Lady Caroline Fitzroy, daughter of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton and Lady Henrietta Somerset, daughter of Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester and Rebecca Child.

The gardens were known as Fitzroy Square until 1862, named after Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy, a governor of New South Wales.

A member of the Seymour family headed by the Duke of Somerset, Hertford was the eldest son of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, and Lady Isabella Fitzroy, daughter of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton.

On 2 September 1725, he married Lady Grace Fitzroy, daughter of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Cleveland and they had seven children.

The square, nearby Fitzroy Street and the Fitzroy Tavern in Charlotte Street have the family name of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, into whose ownership the land passed through his marriage.

Darwin incautiously asked FitzRoy if he thought slaves could answer such a question honestly when it was posed by their master, at which the captain lost his temper and, before storming out, told Darwin that if he doubted his word they could no longer live together ; effectively he banished Darwin from his table.

FitzRoy then wrote his account of the voyage, including editing the notes of the previous captain of the Beagle, which was completed and published in May 1839 as the Narrative of the surveying voyages of H. M. S.

The first Governor of New Zealand, Captain William Hobson, R. N., died in late 1842 and the Church Missionary Society, which had a strong New Zealand presence, suggested FitzRoy as his successor.

A terrible storm in 1859 that caused the loss of the Royal Charter inspired FitzRoy to develop charts to allow predictions to be made, which he called " forecasting the weather ", thus coining the term weather forecast Fifteen land stations were established to use the new telegraph to transmit to him daily reports of weather at set times.

When this came to light, in order to prevent his wife and daughter living in destitution, his friend and colleague Bartholomew Sulivan began an Admiral FitzRoy Testimonial Fund which succeeded in getting the government to pay back £ 3, 000 of this sum ( Darwin contributed a further £ 100 ).

The title refers to the second survey expedition of the ship HMS Beagle, which set sail from Plymouth Sound on 27 December 1831 under the command of Captain Robert FitzRoy, R. N ..

Darwin was invited by FitzRoy to contribute the natural history section to the captain's account of the Beagle's voyage, and using his field notes and the journal which he had been sending home for his family to read, completed this section by September 1837.

His father was the third son of the 2nd Duke of Grafton and Lady Henrietta Somerset, which made FitzRoy a great-grandson of both the 1st Duke of Grafton and the Marquess of Worcester.

In 1861 FitzRoy had established a network of 15 coastal stations from which visual gale warnings could be provided for ships at sea.

The subsequent government enquiry exonerated Te Rauparaha which further angered the settlers who began a campaign to have the governor, Robert FitzRoy recalled.

Though she never gave up hope of marrying him, Amelia knew she could not legally marry FitzRoy due to the provisions of the Royal Marriages Act passed by her father's Parliament ( at least until she reached the age of 25, after which she could receive permission by assent of the Privy Council ).

Before they left England FitzRoy gave Darwin a copy of the first volume of Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology, the subject which would be his primary work.

The town is reputedly named after the ship Calliope, which brought the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy to Port Curtis in 1854.

Under pressure with organising Zoology and correcting proofs of his Journal which had to have the introduction revised when FitzRoy complained that he was " astonished at the total omission of any notice of the officers " for their help, Darwin's health suffered.

Burt's other television credits include Warship, Campion, Swallows and Amazons Forever !, I'm Alan Partridge, The Bill, Bergerac, Blake's 7, Doctor Who and the BBC series The Voyage of Charles Darwin, in which he played the captain of HMS Beagle, Robert FitzRoy.

After Robert FitzRoy committed suicide in 1865, leaving his wife and daughter destitute, Sulivan convinced the British government to provide them with £ 3000, to which Charles Darwin contributed another £ 100 of his own money.

Lyell asked Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, to search for erratic boulders on the survey voyage of the Beagle, and just before it set out FitzRoy gave Darwin Volume 1 of the first edition of Lyell's Principles.

Before they left England FitzRoy gave Darwin a copy of the first volume of Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology, a book the captain had read that explained terrestrial features as the outcome of a gradual process taking place over extremely long periods.

However Nene was still prepared to negotiate and to hope for the best and gave Governor Robert FitzRoy promises to keep the peace on behalf of his fellow chiefs.

Originally granted in 1761, and re-granted in 1769, Grafton, like the county it resides in, takes its name from Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, a relative of colonial governor Benning Wentworth.

Finisterre was the former name of the current FitzRoy sea area used in the UK Shipping Forecast.

In 2002 it was renamed FitzRoy – in honour of the founder of the Met Office ) – to avoid confusion with the smaller sea area of the same name featuring in the marine forecasts produced by the French and Spanish meteorological offices.

On 4 February 2002, when the shipping forecast sea area Finisterre was renamed to avoid confusion with the ( smaller ) French and Spanish forecast area of the same name, the new name chosen by the UK's Meteorological Office was " FitzRoy ", in honour of their founder.

The scientific name of the genus honours Robert FitzRoy ; common names include alerce (" larch ", Spanish ), lahuán ( Spanish, from Mapuche Native American name lawal ), and Patagonian Cypress.

The name FitzRoy means " son of the King " and was given to illegitimate children of English royalty.

** FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, commander of the British troops in the Crimean War who took his name from the Welsh town

Mount Darwin was given its name during the voyage of the Beagle by HMS Beagle's captain Robert FitzRoy to celebrate Charles Darwin's 25th birthday on 12 February 1834.

It was given the name Darwin Sound during the Voyage of the Beagle by HMS Beagle's captain Robert FitzRoy after Charles Darwin's prompt action, with others, saved them from being marooned.