The origin of the nickname appears to be a poem entitled “ The Pilgrims At Home ” written by Edwin Fitzwilliam that was sung at the 1907 home opener (“ Rory O ’ More ” melody ).

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

Although Burke himself was largely alone in defecting to Pitt in 1791, much of the rest of the party, including the influential House of Lords leader the Duke of Portland, Rockingham's nephew Lord Fitzwilliam, and William Windham, were increasingly uncomfortable with the flirtations of Fox and his allies with radicalism and the French Revolution.

The William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne | " Lansdowne Antinous " was found at Hadrian's Villa in 1769 ( Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge )

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

Wildeblood had been convicted and sent to prison, while Winter and Trevor-Roper were more respectable: Winter was director of the Fitzwilliam Museum and Trevor-Roper was a distinguished eye surgeon and brother of the famous historian Hugh Trevor-Roper.

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

It was set off from Marlborough that year, and included parts of Fitzwilliam, Swanzey and Richmond.

it was inherited by the Earls Fitzwilliam, who owned it until 1989, having profited greatly from the great quantities of underground coal on the estate.

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.

This spontaneous local activism, founded on the genuine popularity of the Fitzwilliam family amongst locals, was dismissed in Whitehall as " intrigue " sponsored by the Earl.

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.

But finally it appeared that the viceroy had either misunderstood or exceeded his instructions ; and on 19 February 1795, Fitzwilliam was recalled.

Harry Worth ( born Harry Bourlon Illingsworth, 20 November 1917, 47 Fitzwilliam Street, Hoyland Common, South Yorkshire, died 20 July 1989, Hertfordshire ) was an English comedy actor and comedian.

He was included in the exhibition A New Spirit in Painting at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 2001 ; and held a solo show entitled Frank Auerbach Etchings and Drypoints 1954-2006 at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, which toured to the Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, during 2007-08 ; and another solo show at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, in 2009.

He was educated at Loretto School, Musselburgh, Scotland and read Economics at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he was Chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association and President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1964.

The institution was originally based at Fitzwilliam Hall ( later renamed Fitzwilliam House ), opposite the Fitzwilliam Museum in central Cambridge.

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.

They include a colossal bust in the Vatican, a bust in the Louvre ( the Antinous Mondragone ), a bas-relief from the Villa Albani, a statue in the Capitoline museum ( the so-called Capitoline Antinous, now accepted to be a portrayal of Hermes ), another in Berlin, another in the Lateran and one in the Fitzwilliam Museum ; and many more may be seen in museums across Europe.

The Whig party further split over the French Revolution, with Burke writing to Fitzwilliam on 4 January 1797: " As to our old friends, they are so many individuals, not a jot more separated from your Lordship, than they are from one another.

Fitzwilliam College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England.

Fitzwilliam is also home to a noted Criminology department, headed by Emeritus Professor Sir Anthony Bottoms, and is one of the two colleges that takes in postgraduate students, in association with the Institute of Criminology, as part of the Police Executive Programme.

Since Fitzwilliam began operating at its current site in the north-west of Cambridge, it has grown steadily and developed into one of the larger, more cosmopolitan colleges within the University.

Fitzwilliam is one of only five Cambridge colleges to have won University Challenge.

Rosefield was one of the first seaside villas built on the Fitzwilliam estate around 1750.

The town originally embraced the township of Fitzwilliam and a strip one mile ( 1. 6 km ) by six from the southwest side of De Kaib.

Plunkett was born at 26 Upper Fitzwilliam Street in one of Dublin's most affluent neighborhoods.

In the 2005 Penguin Books publication Britain's Best Museums and Galleries, the Barber Institute was one of only five galleries outside London to receive five stars for having " Outstanding collections of international significance " ( the others were the National Gallery of Scotland, Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum, Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum and the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool ).

* Sir Thomas Tomlinson Kt, BEM, JP ( 1877 – 1959 ) Tommy Tomlinson, as he was affectionately known locally, was one of the area's best known residents for over forty years and lived at 20 Fitzwilliam Street.

Fitzwilliam was born to Juditha and Noel Fitzwilliam, one of two daughters.

As he wrote to Lady Fitzwilliam on 4 September: " Having experienced very closely and very attentively his Lordship's conduct of late, and consequently having formed an opinion of his present principles, I can see no reason to expect that as an honest man I shall ever be able to give support to his administration, and therefore as a fair one I must decline receiving any favour at his hands ".

Later that month Fitzwilliam offered financial assistance to Burke, who sat for one of his pocket boroughs, Malton in Yorkshire.

In May 1792 Pitt sounded out the Portland Whigs, of which Fitzwilliam was one, for a possible coalition government.

Lord Fitzwilliam expressed his dislike to Sheridan, said he might have a lucrative place, but never could be admitted to one of trust and confidence.

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.

Fitzwilliam wrote on 11 July: " I do not receive this honour ( if it is one ) with much exultation ; on the contrary with a heavy heart.

Fitzwilliam was one of sixteen opposition peers to vote against the definitive treaty of peace when it was put before Parliament in May 1802.

In May 1805 Fitzwilliam secured Grattan a seat in Parliament, offering him one of the Malton seats.

Each year it hosts the Fitzwilliam Chamber Series, a collection of concerts by leading professional musicians.

When Richard Burke wrote to Fitzwilliam on 29 July 1790 to persuade him to turn Fox against Sheridan ( who had split from Edmund Burke in February ), Fitzwilliam replied on 8 August that he agreed that " the propriety of entering a caveat against the enthusiasm, or the ambition of any man whatever leading us into the trammels of Dr Price, Parson Horne, or any reverend or irreverend speculator in politics " but Fitzwilliam's letter to Fox did not change his behaviour.

On 9 June Fitzwilliam attended a meeting of leading Whigs at Burlington House.

At a meeting of leading Whigs at Burlington House on 11 December, Fitzwilliam tried to conciliate Fox in his desire to oppose the government.

On 9 January Fitzwilliam informed John Beresford, First Commissioner of the Revenue and the leading supporter of Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland, that he was relieved of office with a pension of the same amount as his salary.

Knowles was born in Fitzwilliam, West Yorkshire and started his career as a left winger with local side Hemsworth before rejection from three of the country's leading sides-Manchester United, Blackpool and Wolverhampton Wanderers-left him questioning his future prospects as a professional footballer.

For many years, Buckstone was closely associated with leading actress Fanny Fitzwilliam ( née Copeland ), who he was engaged to marry in 1854.