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In addition to his madrigals, Morley wrote instrumental music, including keyboard music ( some of which has been preserved in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book ), and music for the broken consort, a uniquely English ensemble of two viols, flute, lute, cittern and bandora, notably as published by William Barley in 1599 in The First Booke of Consort Lessons, made by diuers exquisite Authors, for six Instruments to play together, the Treble Lute, the Bandora, the Cittern, the Base-Violl, the Flute & Treble-Violl.
His tutor there, Edward Young, wrote to Lady Fitzwilliam on 25 July 1763 of Fitzwilliam's " exceeding good understanding, and ... most amiable disposition and temper ".
Edmund Burke wrote to Fitzwilliam on 3 July 1782: " You are Lord Rockingham in every thing.
On 27 December Fitzwilliam wrote to Dr Henry Zouch against parliamentary reform and that the cause of the present discontents was:
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 ".
On 8 April 1788 Fitzwilliam wrote to Zouch on the Whigs ' impeachment of Warren Hastings for his rule in India: "... disgraced, degraded, run down as they were, scarcely suffered to speak in the infancy of the present Parliament, this very Parliament has already conferred on them the distinguished duty of vindicating the justice of the nation, and of rescuing the name of Englishmen from the obloquy of tyranny over the inoffensive and the impotent ".
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.
Fitzwilliam wrote to his wife ( in an undated letter ) that the Reflections was " almost universally admired and approved ".
When his friend Zouch campaigned against repeal Fitzwilliam wrote to him on 28 April 1791 that repeal could only be opposed on " an undeviating adherence to that which is a principle to which I feel a strong attachment in most cases, because alteration and innovation is so seldom proposed to me, without a great alloy of experiment and uncertainty " but that Dissenters circumvented the Act and thus in practice the Church of England gained nothing from it but the Dissenters ' hostility.
French Laurence wrote to Burke on 8 August, claiming that Fitzwilliam had praised the Reflections " in a large, mixed company ... in a manner which made it understood to be his wish that his opinion should be as publicly known as possible ".
Fitzwilliam wrote to Zouch on 5 June that the reform societies in London, Sheffield, Manchester and Norwich were:
Lord Carlisle wrote to Fitzwilliam about the concern he felt about the state of the Whig party.
In late November Thomas Grenville wrote to Fitzwilliam and said that he spoke of " giving greater latitude to the principle of interference in internal governments of foreign countries, than I am prepared to give ".
With the mass-resignation from the Whig Club of Burke and other conservative Whig MPs, Fitzwilliam wrote to Lady Rockingham on 28 February 1793 and spoke of the Whig party split into three factions: those who wholeheartedly support the Revolution ; those who wholeheartedly condemn it, support the government and wish for a war to destroy it ; and the third ( which Fitzwilliam identified with ) " thinking French principles ... wicked and formidable, are ready to resist them " by supporting the government's " measures of vigour " but " engaging for nothing further ".
In declining Richard Burke's request for a seat in Parliament, Fitzwilliam wrote to him on 27 August:
The Duke of Portland immediately wrote to Fitzwilliam to inform him that he would visit Fox and tell him he would " support the war with all the effect and energy in my power " and end all ties to the Friends of the People.
On 23 June Fitzwilliam wrote to the Duke of Portland that he believed the government had moved to the Whig position and that " for my own part I am now ready, not only to adopt the opinion that a junction should take place, as your sentiment, but to advise it as the genuine offspring of my own judgement ... only condition was that as much weight and sway should be given to us as possible.
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.
He wrote to Fitzwilliam on 21 June to give notice that he intended to resign his seat in the Commons.
The Duke of Portland wrote to Fitzwilliam four days later to say he had told Ponsonby, an Irish Whig, of the appointment.
On 8 October Fitzwilliam wrote to the Duke of Portland to inform him of rumours in Ireland that Lord Westmorland was to continue as Lord Lieutenant and that if he was not announced soon as Lord Lieutenant he would resign from the government.
On 18 November Fitzwilliam wrote to Burke to reassure him: " the business is settled: that I go to Ireland though not exactly upon the terms I had originally thought of, and I mean particularly in the removal of the Chancellor, who is now to remain, Grattan and the Ponsonbys desire me to accept: I left the decision to them ".
On 5 February Fitzwilliam wrote to Pitt: " I have every reason to expect a great degree of unanimity in support of my administration: nothing can defeat those expectations unless an idea should go forth that I do not possess the fullest confidence, and cannot command the most cordial support of the British Cabinet ".

Fitzwilliam and Laurence
Laurence wrote to Fitzwilliam on 26 October that Henry Addington, Speaker of the House of Commons, viewed him as " man of high integrity ; no person could say that his lordship had abandoned his principles ".
Fitzwilliam wrote to Laurence on 22 February 1797 that he did not wish for a change in government lest it " lead to a change in the constitution " but agreed that a " reform in the abuses of executive government " was needed and that Fox would carry on the war " for the same reason the government, and peace would be made by him more to advantage, because, made by him, there would be virtually a saving of the country's honour made by Mr Pitt, the country is beat into it ' made by Mr Fox it is a measure of choice ".
Burke reported to Laurence that Fitzwilliam had " a strong predilection to Mr Fox " and " influenced, too much so in my opinion, though very naturally and very excusably, by a rooted animosity against Mr Pitt ".
Fitzwilliam returned to his previous independence when the scheme for a " third party " collapsed and Laurence wrote to Fitzwilliam on 9 July ( the day of Burke's death ) that Burke had said on his deathbed: " Inform Lord Fitzwilliam from me that it is my dying advice and request to him, steadily to pursue that course in which he now is.
Fitzwilliam wrote to Laurence on 11 July of Burke's death:
Writing to Laurence on 2 August and 26 October Fitzwilliam changed his position on the war in the light of Austria ( Britain's remaining ally ) making peace with France: " I am ready to confess that I do not see how war without Continental alliances can tend to produce a counter-revolutionary system in France ".
Fitzwilliam wrote to Laurence on 16 October that " English humiliation has reached its acme ... peace was a great trial of patience, what passed at the Whig Club is no less so: I cannot bear to think of either.
Fitzwilliam wrote to Laurence on 14 August on the Volunteer system: " All the higher orders, particularly when you get into the manufacturing district, tremble at the thought of arms being put into the hands of the people indiscriminately ... having none in authority over them, at least, not such as ought to be ".

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The same area is also home to many smaller museums such as Number 29 on Fitzwilliam St. and The Little Museum of Dublin on St. Stephen's Green.
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.
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.
But finally it appeared that the viceroy had either misunderstood or exceeded his instructions ; and on 19 February 1795, Fitzwilliam was recalled.
The college also owns properties in the centre of Cambridge, on Bateman Street and Thompson's Lane, and on its Wychfield Site next to Fitzwilliam College.
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.
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 ).
Due to its emphasis on academic ability rather than wealth, Fitzwilliam quickly attracted a strong academic contingent that included future Nobel Prize winners, Heads of State and important judicial figures.
Fitzwilliam is heavily involved in the Orchestra on the Hill, which performs large-scale works on a termly basis and draws its membership from students of the Hill Colleges.
At Fitzwilliam, the role originally played by WCSO has since been taken over by the Orchestra on the Hill.
Fitzwilliam is traditionally strong in Football: the first team won the University league in 2005 ( winning every game on the way ) and the knock-out competition, known as Cuppers, in 2006 ; in 2012, they were once again Cuppers Champions.
Only a few streets away, further shootings took place on Baggot Street, Fitzwilliam Square, Morehampton Road and Earlsfort Terrace.
On 19 September 2011, at the Fitzwilliam Hotel on St Stephen's Green, Scallon announced she would be seeking a nomination to enter the following month's Irish presidential election.
In late 1995, he and his wife purchased a former solicitor's office, a four-storey Georgian house on Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, with a courtyard and coachhouse with separate entrance.
Leading peers in particular flocked to Dublin, where they lived in enormous and richly decorated town houses, initially on the Northside of Dublin, later in new Georgian residences around Merrion Square and Fitzwilliam Square.
Three new residential squares appeared on the southside, Merrion Square ( facing his residence's garden front ), St Stephen's Green and the smallest and last of Dublin's five Georgian squares to be built, Fitzwilliam Square.
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.
Rosefield was one of the first seaside villas built on the Fitzwilliam estate around 1750.
The two mines on Newcastle Island were called the Fitzwilliam and the Newcastle mines.
The most famous incident was the gas explosion in the Fitzwilliam Mine on September 15, 1876, where three men lost their lives.
Godspell opened at the Roundhouse Theatre in Chalk Farm, London on 17 November 1971, starring Johanna Cassidy, David Essex, Neil Fitzwilliam, Jeremy Irons, Verity-Anne Meldrum, Deryk Parkin, Tom Saffery, Gay Soper and Marti Webb.
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.

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