He saw action in Croatia, as second-in-command of a sub-mission headed by Randolph Churchill, under Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean's 37th Military Mission, which included Evelyn Waugh.

From that point on, guided by Garnett's literary judgement and Howard's high standards of design and production, it was a major force in British publishing, notably of books by T. E. Lawrence, Arthur Ransome, Peter Fleming, Ernest Hemingway, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, Fitzroy Maclean's Eastern Approaches and the James Bond series by Ian Fleming.

* Fitzroy Maclean's Eastern Approaches ( Jonathan Cape Ltd )

He travelled widely, and was known as the Eccentric Missionary, according to Fitzroy Maclean's Eastern Approaches.

For example, in his memoir Eastern Approaches, Fitzroy Maclean describes the song's effect in the spring of 1942 during the Western Desert Campaign: n " Husky, sensuous, nostalgic, sugar-sweet, her voice seemed to reach out to you, as she lingered over the catchy tune, the sickly sentimental words.

In both the Western Desert Campaign and Yugoslavia, Churchill crossed paths with Fitzroy Maclean, who wrote of their adventures, and some of the problems Churchill caused him, in his memoir Eastern Approaches.

The signature of the agreement was pushed by Winston Churchill, who had his people watching over the negotiations, on hand but hands off, as described in Eastern Approaches: Ralph Stevenson, ambassador to the government in exile, and Fitzroy MacLean, the soldier-ambassador liaison to Tito.

He was arrested in his own office by Fitzroy Maclean, who details the adventure in his 1949 memoir Eastern Approaches.

It starts at the Eastern Freeway entrance in Fitzroy and heads directly southwards until reaching Citylink in Richmond, near the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and continues across the Yarra River and down to the Nepean and Princes Highways, at St Kilda Junction.

Fitzroy Maclean, then a young diplomat in the British Embassy, states in his memoir Eastern Approaches that von Herwarth condemned the appeasement of the Munich Agreement, predicted a Soviet-German commitment to non-aggression ( which came to pass as the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact ), and saw ahead to what he called " the destruction of Germany ".

Eastern Approaches ( 1949 ) is an autobiographical account of the early career of Fitzroy Maclean.

2005: 714-17 ); Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms ( U of Toronto P, 1993: 437-39 ); Encyclopedia of Literary Critics and Criticism ( Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999: 822-26 ).

Melbourne, too, has lost venues, including the Continental in Prahran and the Punters Club in Fitzroy.

The gorge has been formed by the Fitzroy River and the level of the river in the wet season can rise by up to.

Fitzroy Island has been put to many uses by humankind.

The Island has also been home to lighthouses warning ships in the Grafton Passage of the reefs around the island, and a small automatic light on Little Fitzroy Island, just off the north-east point, still serves this purpose.

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

* Virginia Woolf has a plaque where she lived between 1907-1911 in 29 Fitzroy Square, London, W1

The St Kilda Lawn Bowls Club on Fitzroy Street has a long history and retains its heritage clubhouse building as well as hosts many community events.

The Club is ruled by Anthony Shaw, a descendant of Sebastian Shaw ; he also has an illegitimate son, Trevor Fitzroy.

Scarred tree in Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne | Fitzroy Gardens, the scar is left after a canoe has been cut out of the trunk

The Fitzroy Town Hall has been given over to the regional library and for use as a community space.

The suburb has a light rail station in the north at Fraser Street while the St Kilda Metropol light rail station is just outside the south east border as well as three additional tram superstops along Fitzroy Street

Since the amalgamation of the City of Fitzroy with the City of Collingwood and the City of Richmond in 1994 to form the City of Yarra, the Town Hall has functioned as secondary offices for the City of Yarra.

Fitzroy has a thriving street art community and is also the home of Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and the Centre for Contemporary Photography.

Fitzroy has a large number of pubs for such a small suburb.

The tiny suburb of Fitzroy has many cafes.

Fitzroy has also featured in episodes of a number of Australian TV shows, including City Homicide and Rush ( notably in Season 3, where the team shot at Fitzroy Town Hall to commemorate the death of a former colleague ).

Most notably, ARIA award winner Dan Sultan has the song Old Fitzroy, the black and white video for which is shot entirely in Fitzroy, featuring shots of and from Atherton Gardens, as well as shots of a number of Fitzroy pubs.

The City of Yarra also supports a car sharing service, which has several locations in Fitzroy.

Fitzroy North also has some distinctive apartment complexes, mostly built within the last 15 years.

North Fitzroy Primary School has received state media attention for its canteen's healthy menu.

On 17 February 1975, Yang presided over the trial of Peter Fitzroy Godber, a former Kowloon's Deputy District Commissioner of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force who was charged with corruption.

When two of their members were arrested and faced trial over the robbery, the Fitzroy gang became suspicious that someone from Richmond had tipped off the police and suspicions were raised further when Stokes, a member of the Richmond gang, gave evidence for the prosecution in exchange for the police withdrawing charges against him.

Juanita drooped about the place, wearing a haunted, brooding look, which Kate attributed to the baby's death, until the day a letter came for her addressed to `` Miss Juanita Fitzroy '', bearing a Grafton postmark.

The Fitzroy Tavern is a pub situated at 16 Charlotte Street in the Fitzrovia district, to which it gives its name.

The 1913 season saw major improvement in which the team qualified fourth, but were eventually beaten in the 1913 grand final by Fitzroy.

Fitzroy as minor premiers were allowed to challenge St Kilda – the number one ranked team in the finals series at that point – and the two teams played again the following week in the grand final which Fitzroy won 7. 14.

There is a walking track that takes in the northern end of the island, the lighthouse on the north-west point which overlooks Little Fitzroy Island, and the island's peak, which offers stunning 360 degree views over the surrounding reefs and Cape Grafton.

George, his father, the King's illegitimate son Henry Fitzroy and all other courtiers of rank were present at the monks ' brutal executions which took place on 4 May 1535.

Popular attractions include Riverbank Parklands, a riverfront parkland attraction located on the banks of Fitzroy River ; the Capricorn Coast, the coastal strip between Yeppoon and Emu Park and Great Keppel Island, a large neighbouring island off the Capricorn Coast, the vast majority of which is national park.

The Fitzroy River provided a convenient waterway for shipping of supplies for those who followed them, and a settlement grew on the riverbanks just downstream of a bar of rocks which prevented further upstream navigation from the coast.

Corroborees where held at the historic tree which still stands at St Kilda Junction, at the corner of Fitzroy Street and Queens Road.

Much of the area north of present-day Fitzroy Street was swampland, part of the Yarra River Delta which comprised vast areas of wetlands and sparse vegetation.

St Kilda also hosts the annual gay Pride March, which starts at Lakeside Drive and heads down Fitzroy Street to the Catani Gardens.

Albert Park is a large park which spans many suburbs, including St Kilda on Fitzroy Street and hosts a number of sporting fields and a recreational lake.

St Kilda is home to several schools, including secondary schools St Michael's Grammar School, Christian Brothers College and primary schools St Kilda Primary School ( on Brighton Road ) and St Kilda Park Primary School ( on Fitzroy Street in Albert Park ) all of which have imposing heritage buildings on campus.

The Network Ten drama The Secret Life Of Us, which ran from 2001 to 2005, was set in St Kilda, mostly around Acland Street, Fitzroy Street and in the famous Esplanade Hotel.

By the time Julian Maclaren-Ross met Tambimuttu and Dylan Thomas in the early 1940s this literary group had moved away from the Fitzroy Tavern, which had become a victim of its own success, and were hanging out in the lesser-known Wheatsheaf and others in Rathbone Place and Gresse Street.

" Maclaren-Ross replied: " I know the Fitzroy " to which Tambimuttu said: " Ah, that was in the Thirties, now they go to other places.

FitzRoy purchased the Manor of Tottenhall and built Fitzroy Square, to which he gave his name ; nearby Fitzroy Street also bears his name.

Derwent London own about one million square feet of property in Fitzrovia: about one fifth of their total portfolio A number of structural engineering consultants are based in offices on Newman Street and the world headquarters of Arup is on Fitzroy St although they own many of the surrounding buildings ( which are in the process of being redeveloped into modern offices ).

The coast was then skirted to the Fitzroy River which was followed for 240 miles ( 390 km ); but Forrest's progress was then stopped by mountains which appeared to be impassable.

The banks of the Ord, Fitzroy and other rivers are home to a greater variety of vegetation while in sheltered gorges of the high rainfall north there are patches of tropical dry broadleaf forest, called monsoon forests, deciduous vine forest or vine thicket in Australia ( often mistakenly called ' dry rainforest '), which were unknown to science until 1965 and are one of the most floristically rich parts of Australia outside the Wet Tropics and southwestern WA.