In 1816 Lamb was returned for Peterborough by Whig grandee Lord Fitzwilliam.

Although membership has changed over the years, the group returned to Fitzwilliam in 1999 when they were appointed the college's Resident Quartet.

The election was overturned on petition, and in March he was returned at a by-election for Malton, a borough in the interest of Lord Fitzwilliam.

In 1959, Granger returned to Broadway as Fitzwilliam Darcy opposite Polly Bergen as Elizabeth Bennet in First Impressions, a musical adaptation of Pride and Prejudice with a book and direction by Abe Burrows.

At war's end, the couple returned to the UK with Grant ’ s collection of almost 700 Roman coins ( now in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge ).

Fitzwilliam returned to England for the last time in January 1769 after travelling from Naples over the Alps, through Switzerland, Mannheim and Paris.

Fitzwilliam did not join the government when the Whigs finally returned to power in 1830, having virtually retired from public life.

In 1955 the site was returned to Fitzwilliam Estates who leased it to Headley Wise and Sons who owned Malton Minerals.

By the 1920s and certainly by the 1930s, many of the previous homes in Merrion Square had become business addresses of companies, with only Fitzwilliam Square of all the five squares having any residents at all.

Fitzwilliam met him at Burlington House on 25 May in which he told Fitzwilliam he had met Pitt the previous day, with the Prime Minister telling him for his wish for a coalition as " the expulsion of that evil spirit Jacobinism ... and that his wish and object was that it might make us act together as one great Family ... lamented the scantiness of Cabinet employments he had it in his power at this moment to offer us " but assured him that they would be offered when they became available.

* the Kingdom ( O ' Donnell ), Principality ( O ' Donnell ), Jacobite Dukedom ( Richard Talbot ), 4 Earldoms ( separate Earldoms created for O ' Donnell, Fitzwilliam, Talbot, Carpenter, each progressively following the extinction of the previous ), Viscountcy ( Brownlow ); all of these are extinct titles, except the 1st Earldom ( O ' Donnell ), which was attainted in 1614.

Fitzwilliam started to contribute to debates in the Lords, with his first intervention on 5 December 1782 during the debate on the address, intervening to criticise Lord Rockingham's successor as Prime Minister, Lord Shelburne, on the lack of principle on the concession of American independence.

Fitzwilliam was reported to have said in his speech on 17 December 1783 that " his mind, filled and actuated by the motives of Whiggism, would ill brook to see a dark and secret influence exerting itself against the independence of Parliament, and the authority of Ministers ".

Fitzwilliam had now rejoined the Foxite opposition after six years of independence, and the only issue that separated him from them was parliamentary reform.

Wentworth gained some independence when the Fitzwilliam family line ended in 1979.

The Catholic question had come to the fore, and when a powerful section of the Whigs joined Pitt's ministry in 1794, and it became known that the lord-lieutenancy was to go to Lord Fitzwilliam, who shared Grattan's views, expectations for further Catholic relief were raised.

Along with the name, the college's coat of arms first came into use in the 1880s when Fitzwilliam Hall needed an emblem to represent its newly formed boat club.

Initially, the design was used unofficially and it was only when Fitzwilliam was in the process of attaining collegiate status, some 80 years later, that it actually applied for a Grant of Arms.

Indeed, that the Court could be a means of financial loss is shown by the experiences of Sir William Fitzwilliam III when he held the office of Treasurer of War in Ireland.

In April 1742 he was created Lord Fitzwilliam, Baron of Milton in the County of Northampton, in the Peerage of Great Britain, and in 1746 he was further honoured when he was made Earl Fitzwilliam, of Norborough with the subsidiary title Viscount Milton, both in the County of Northampton, also in the Peerage of Great Britain.

Horace Walpole recorded on 11 October that he did not know Fitzwilliam personally but that " from what I have heard of him in the Lords, I have conceived a good opinion of his sense ; of his character I never heard any ill, which is a great testimonial in his favour, when there are so many horrid characters, and when all that are conspicuous have their minutest actions tortured to depose against them ".

In January 1789 when the Commons ' resolutions in favour of a Regency Bill ( which would restrict the Prince of Wales ' regal authority ) came up to the Lords, Fitzwilliam said they would " reduce the constitution from the principles of a limited monarchy, and change it to the principles of a republic ".

If the Duke of Portland had formed an administration upon the Prince of Wales becoming Regent, Fitzwilliam would have been First Lord of the Admiralty, although Fitzwilliam was relieved when the King recovered from his illness and prospects of assuming this office subsequently disappeared.

Fitzwilliam did not praise Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France in public when it was published on 1 November 1790, although Burke claimed on 29 November that Fitzwilliam had acclaimed it.

With Lord Fitzwilliam, in Grosvenor Square, for the purpose of discussing the subject of a coalition with him, and of endeavouring to prevail on him to speak to Fox — Lord Fitzwilliam's sentiments perfectly right — he said his opposition never had been to the constitution of the country, but to the Government when it acted in a way he thought contrary to the constitution ; that, therefore, when that was in danger he ceased to be in opposition.

However when a public subscription was founded to settle Fox's debts ( over £ 60, 000 ), Fitzwilliam contributed a considerable amount.

However the Duke of Portland and Lord Mansfield implored Fitzwilliam to accept office and when Lord Mansfield saw Fitzwilliam when he came down to London on 28 June he got Fitzwilliam " to admit that if ever he was to take office this was the time ".

Fitzwilliam conceded that such a scheme would improve the system, as he wrote to Lord Grey on 22 March, " but ninety other plans would do as much, and with me the question is, is it for the advantage of the country, and for the good of the public to moot the subject at all — where are you to limit alterations, at what point are they to stop?

There are indications that the sequence may be a chronological one, for the first pavan is labelled ' the first that ever hee made ' in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book and the Tenth Pavan, which is separated from the others, evidently became available at a late stage before the completion date.

The Earl granted a licence to control Swakeleys to Sir William Fitzwilliam in 1531, who was acting as trustee for Ralph Pexall.

Incorporated in 1773 by Governor John Wentworth, the town was named for his cousin, William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam.

But Fox's radical position soon became too extreme for many of his followers, particularly old Whig friends like the Duke of Portland, Earl Fitzwilliam and the Earl of Carlisle.

Having finished the course of alterations in the hands of John Carr, Lord Fitzwilliam turned in 1790 to the most prominent landscape gardener, Humphry Repton, for whom this was the season's most ambitious project, one that he would describe in detail while the memory was still fresh, in Some Observations of the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening ( 1803 ).

It was commissioned in 1783 by the Earl Fitzwilliam as a memorial to the late first Marquess of Rockingham ; it was designed by John Carr, whose first design, for an obelisk, was rejected, in favour of an adaptation of the Roman Cenotaph of the Julii at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, near Arles.

Fitzwilliam privately asked Grattan to propose a Bill for Catholic emancipation, promising government support.

The college places an increasing emphasis on Natural Sciences, with students of the discipline accounting for approximately 20 % of its undergraduate intake, and has developed traditional strengths in both Music and Politics ; in 2010, there were more Fitzwilliam graduates in Parliament than graduates of any other college ( 6 MPs and 4 life peers ).

With fixed assets worth slightly more than £ 43. 5m and land insured for approximately £ 72m, Fitzwilliam is also about average in terms of college wealth.

The suggestion that Fitzwilliam close prompted an outcry from former students and it was therefore decided that it should aim for collegiate status.

Fitzwilliam has, over the years, also become known for its beautiful gardens, which largely predate the college.

The name refers ultimately to the Fitzwilliam family, prominent members of the Anglo-Irish nobility, whose ancestral seat Milton Hall is located to the north of Cambridge and who, as students and benefactors, have been associated with the university for several hundred years ; more directly, it refers to the Fitzwilliam Museum, founded in 1816 with the bequest of the library, art collection and personal fortune of the 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam and situated directly opposite the original headquarters of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, and also to the adjacent Fitzwilliam Street, where many of the non-collegiate students were housed.

In 1961, the first vice-chancellor, Frank Thistlethwaite, had approached Denys Lasdun, an adherent of the " New Brutalist " trend in architecture, who was at that time building Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, to produce designs for the permanent campus.

* Francis Tregian the Younger is imprisoned for his Catholic sympathies, and begins copying out the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.

Unlike most mine owners the philanthropic Fitzwilliam family had for decades made the Wentworth Estate a pleasant haven for all employees.

He went on to take a Bachelor of Arts ( BA ) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at The Queen's College, Oxford and a Master of Business Administration ( MBA ) at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick ( 1989 – 1990 ) on police scholarships ; and also studied for a postgraduate Diploma in Policing and Applied Criminology at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.